Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1902 — Has Many Decendants. [ARTICLE]

Has Many Decendants.

The following interesting item* from Hammond oonoerns a former resident of Jasper county : ‘‘Aunt Hetty” Shortridge, born i Ohio, in 1804, has twenty-five i living grandchildren, sixty-six great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandohildren, making fa total of 101 living descendants, j Twenty-five of her grand-children are dead. Mrs. Shortridge came to Indiana before it was admitted as a Btate, and with her parents settled in Wayne connty. In 1819 she married Elisha Shortridge. Mrs. Shortridge is the mother of eleven ohildren. She lives with‘a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Burroughs, qf Hammond, who is seventy-five years old. One of her sons, the Rev. Lemnel Shortridge was for more than fifty years 9 pastor of the Christian ohuroh.