Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1899 — Jasper County’s Centenarian. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County’s Centenarian.

Remington Press. Mrs. Mary Wilkins celebrated her one hnndreth birthday last Friday at the home of her daughter Mrs. Robert Watson, having been born in the county of Tyrone Ireland, Sept. 29,1799. “Granny” Wilkius as she is familiarly called is a remarkable preserved woman-, being as spry as many wonifen at 50, able to read without glasses, and insists on doing all her own housework. Should she live till Jan. 1,1901’ as she seems to have an excelent chance of doing, she will have lived in three different centuries, a circumstance which rarely falls to the lot of humanity.