A venerable woman at eighty-one and seventeen
Mrs Mary Henenman is described as possibly the oldest person in the United States on April 27 1886. Her son Peter Coulter marked his eighty first birthday the same day. They live near Russiaville Indiana. The interview notes her daily habit of quilting and sewing, long life of regular habits and temperance, and her memory of early U.S. history including Washington and the Revolutionary era.
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Kekonso
Cor
Cincinnati Enquirer
Mary Henenman
United States
Peter Coulter
Methodist Church
Bonenman
Mary Perry
Christopher R. Perry
Sussex County
Del
William Coulter
Ohio
Far West
Pickaway County
Circleville
George Washington
Delaware Bay
Lewiston
Bunker Hill
Perseverance Personified in a Brick by Brick Tale
A Richmond reporter hears of a man who has built a house by gathering one brick at a time from city streets. For years he collects bricks dropped from wagons and thrown from houses, steadily accumulating enough to construct a small suburban home.
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Richmond
Largest pension paid to private soldier announced
Pension Agent Errett reported Alexander Gilchrist of Indiana Pennsylvania received a back pay totaling 13 151 dollars the largest pension ever paid to a private soldier. The sum was sent to a belind decrepit old man who had spent twelve years in the poorhouse.
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Pittsburgh Chronicle
Errett
Alexander Gilchrist
Indiana
Filou_ious
Trian Bachem
James Robinson
France
Bpsia
Russia
America
Robinson
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Pittsburgh
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Maryland
Warren
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West Spring Creek
Warren Co
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Warren, Penn’s
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