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WINTERSVILLE FARMER, POET CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAYCounty Pays Fitting Homage to CentenarianSECLUDED LIFECentury Mark, Long His Ambition, Is Realized(BY MARY BERGER)Richard Evans, \V j n tersville farmer, poet, song-wrlter, musician and Civil war veteran, is 100 years old today.At the family homestead west of Steubenville, in the same room where he has watched the sun of life slowly setting, the man who has the distinction of being Jefferson county’s only centenarian is today receiving the greetings of friends and relatives who come to wish him a “happy birthday.And Richard Evans echoes their congratulations with a thankful: It is wonderful to have survived another year ”For that has been the aged veteran’s great ambition. He wanted to live to be one hundred. Now100 CandlesBIRTHDAY cake with a hundred candles, a radio and a handsomely framed photograph of himself are among the many remembrances Richard Evans found awaiting him when he awoke this morning on the day that has brought him to the century milestone of existence.' Scores of friends and acquaintances showered birthday greetings. From far and near they have come to visit the centenarian whose year* have robbed him neither of his keeii Intellect nor or his unusual vitality,Officials and employe* of the Union Saving* bank, of which Mr. Evans is the oldest depositor, also paid him honor by visiting at hi* home in Winters-viile and presenting him with the handsome photograph of himself.L. -v*. —Sbulmau BtUflio Pbote.One hundred years ufir'today, Richard Evan*. Wlntertville patriarch, left his room for the first time in • year and came out on the porch of Mw home to fcave his picture taken for the Herald Star. The centenarian has spent (he winters of the past few years in bed-saving his energy and strength for hiH hundredth anniversary, which he is ceiebrating today amidst the felicitations of friends and relatives from near and far.that his ambition has been realized —does he want to live on? He answers that best himself:,I aimed to see my one hundredth birthday, I am content. Do I want to live longer? I’ll leave that in the hands of God.”Y ears of Seclusion Y’ear after year, since the demands of time forced him out of an active world, Richard Evans has spent secluded in his home out at Wintersville. For several years past he has bee* confined to his room, spending the winters in bed and the summers on the front porch in his favorite rocker.Y’et neither the months in bed nor the years in seclusion have robbed him of that amazing intellect and unusual vitality which for a half century made him one of the most prosperous farmers of the Ohio Valley.His only diversion is reading, Partial loss of his hearing several years ago denied him the pleasure of music and the conversation of friends. But his sight, with the aid of glasses, remains unimpaired, so that the secrets of the outside world, through its newspapers and magazines, are secrets no longer to the patriarch.Prefers Mystery Stories Stack upon stack of newspapers piled on a bookcase npar the bed tTurn to Page Fifteen)
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Steubenville Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Wed, Jun 19, 1929
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