Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1883 — A Large and Long-Lived Family. [ARTICLE]

A Large and Long-Lived Family.

Poughkeepsie Telegraph, The following item was published in one of our county papers ten years ago: “There are now living in the family of the late Isaac Hicks,of the town of Milan, nine daughters and two sons, whose ages are respectively as follows: Seventy-three, seventy-one, sixty-nine, sixty-seven, sixtyfive, sixty-three, sixty-one, fifty.-nine,fifty-seven, fifty-five, fifty-three—making the united ages of one family of brothers and sisters 693 years. We doubt if there is a parallel case to be found.” After a decade we can yet chronicle the further fact that all the members are yet living—Mrs. Traver, Hughsonville, now being the oldest and Mrs. Henry Barger, of the youngest. Mrs. Diantha Sleight, of this city, is one of the number. The brothers live in lowa. Their aggregate ages now make 803 years, averaging seventy-three years. The father died in 1849, at the age ®f sixty-eight; the mother in 1860, aged eighty-three years.