Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD. [ARTICLE]

HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD.

Howard County Has a Centennarian in the Person of Mrs. Patsy Sears Kokomo, Ind., Tribune. It is not uncommon to hear of centennarians or better living way off in Texas, Florida or other distant points, but it is One of the marvelous rarities of the age to discover a personage right in our own midst who has attained the extreme age of 110 years: According to Supt. Porter’s census, Howard county has an in-, habitant 110 years of age who has resided here continuously for years. The name of the alleged centennarian is Mrs. PatsySears,of Liberty township, and her existence is vouched for by David F. Cook, who was census enumerator for District No. 87 in Liberty township. He reports that this old lady was born in Culpeper county Va., in the year 1781. The exact day of her birth is not known, as Mrs. Sears says their family records were destroyed by fira Her ancestors were remarkable for their longevity, her mother living to be 10S years old. It is said she has her second sight and she had her second husband, whom she outlived more than a score of years. She has had our children, all of whom are living, she residing with one of her daughters, Mrs. John Wolf,, of Liberty toW&ship. Mrs. Sears says she is a stranger to disease, but not to her Creator, having been a member of he Baptist chnch for more than eighy years. As one might easily be.eve her mental powers are beginning to wane and fade, but she nar- '• ~4" mr- •"*•••

rates some thrifiing incidents of early day 8. She remembers when General Washington was not only talked and read of but also when he was a living patriot, She is quite a talker and at times very entertaining. She says her family was in affluent circumstances, but their fortune was shattered during the war of the revolution, reducing them to limited circumstances.