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A Wouiau Who Lived 103 l'ears.Deckbbtown, N. J., Augusut 16.—Mrs.Reoecca Sidner died Tuesday after attaining tbe remarkable age of 105 years, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Sutton. She was born in Wiretown, just across the Warren couty line, and most of her life was spent on a farm.Mrs. Sidney married when she was eighteen years old and was the mother of thirteen children, five of whom are still living. She preserved all her faculties up to the day of her death in an extraordinary degree, and could graphically describe stirring scenes in the war of 1812, in which h*r son Williom was killed. She was only sick once in her life.More than forty years ago, when her husband died, she began to smoke, and she regularly kept it up until her death, being especially fond of clay pipes. She attributed her long life to her regu.ar habits and her out-of-door life. Her ancestry were long-lived, her grandfatner living to the age of over one hundred and one years. Mrs. Sidneys death was caused by internal injuries she sustained from a fall when attempting to seat herself in a! cnair.
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Columbus Enquirer Sun
Columbus, Georgia, US
Tue, Aug 20, 1889
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