Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1903 — Left 800 Descendants [ARTICLE]

Left 800 Descendants

Very few persons leave such progeny) as the late Mrs. Mary Taylor, who was! hurled recently at Lancaster, says an English paper. She had ten children, more than a hundred grandchildren and fifty great-grandchildren. Around! her graveside were a hundred descendants. But a still more remarkable case is recorded by Lord George Lyftleton in an account of a tour in Wales. He mentions the death of a Welsh farmer,' near Festiniog, at the ripe age of 105 J The Welshman had married three times. By his first wife he had thirty] children. Not deterred by this family, he married again, and had ten by hiaj second. By his third wife he brought the children to forty-four, the last child being eighty-one years younger than; the eldest. At the farmer’s funeral there was an attendance of 800 descendants. *