Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — Some Old Time Spectacles. [ARTICLE]

Some Old Time Spectacles.

George Morgan showed us his great-grandfather’s spectacles ths other day. They belong to his mother Mrs. Mary Morgan, and with the exception of an oldfashioned lance, they are the only relics known to exist of George Moore, the revolutionary soldier, buried in Smith cemetery. The old “specs” are quite a curiosity, being mounted in brass bows, large and heavy enough for harness rings. Mr. Morgan says, by the way, that the old veteran’s age at death was considerably understated in our previous article. He says it was 99 years, 9 months and 8 days, and, that it is so given on the tomb-stone, thus leaking less than three month’s of a full century. We doubt if any other white person ever died at so great an age in Jasper county.