Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1901 — Has Lived In Three Cen, turies. [ARTICLE]

Has Lived In Three Cen, turies.

The city newspapers are now bringing out the people who have lived in three centuries, as of course any person over 100 years old now has. One of these is Peter Surprise, who lives near Creston, in Lake County, and is said to be 108 years old. So far we have seen no mention, since the new century opened, of Jasper county’s own centenarian,‘Grandmother Wilkins, of Remington. She is now something over ICO years old and has therefore lived in three centuries, the 18th and 19th and 20th. We look for the Remington Press to present a complete sketch of this interesting lady’s life and present condition and habits. So far as we have ever heard she is the only centenarian Jasper county ever bad with-* in its borders.