Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — THE REPUBLICANS. VERY OLD PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

THE REPUBLICANS.

VERY OLD PEOPLE.

Solomon Eversull, of Hamilton county. Conn-, has just celebrated his 100th birthday. Robert W. Knight, the oldest citizen of Portland, Me., died on Sunday, aged 93 years. After living to the age of #9, Matthew Arnold, of Colchester, N. Y., committed suicide. , ' ' ' Arthur Connelly died recently in Lockport. IfcTrtt the age of W years and H months. . There are three old persons in Baldwin county, Ga„ Sylvia Cambert and Peter Hall are each 113 years of age. and Mary English, has just passed her 110th birthday, Johs O’Mali a, of Cleveland, died recently at the age of 105 years. He had never been ■loir, and just before he died be said he felt drowsy, and apparently fell asleep. . Kanct Reilly, of Oregon, when a girl, -dtwifiwn the Atlantic to the Missouri, tad subsequently when moving in Oregon made the entire trip on foot. She in now 90, Cable, the New Orleanist novelist, will reaideld the North hereafter.