Show daniel webster at fifty seven wp jan 18 friday ait 1 am this lay 67 years yearn old my lly brothers and 61 elsiell have till all died young I 1 was by much the most slender and feeble of the family in early life but bui have yet Ved them nil all and no one of 0 them 1 think attained my present pr eIt age aee altho although uga I 1 am not quite certain how this may havo have been with my half brother david webster who was older that than myself by ten tell or twelve years and who w ha died in canada some years eara aso ago but birt exactly at what time I 1 do not know my father died at 67 ills constitution natura naturally very trona strong was evid evidently nt affected by the hardships and exposures of his early life my uncle benjamin webster We bOTer lived to a 11 great age I 1 believe above 81 80 years ile he tilled in cabot or the adjoining town flow in vermont uncle william webster went to to sol sal asbry my father tic died several years yeara ago 1190 belac eing then thell much the longest reside EIL in the t township and being I 1 think something more than 70 years yeara of oc ace TP WY my paternal aunts lived as far as I 1 remember to bi be 70 or more my mother also reached reach yd 70 0 O her mother mrs jerusha fitz whom I 1 well remember died in my fathers home bout about A june julie aget aged about go 90 years my own health from the nee age of 25 1 lias as been remarkably grod and tor for little occasional Jonal Vi nesses I 1 I 1 have too loo often been able to see bee obvious causes la in want war it of proper care and diss it if I 1 were now DO to strike out of th ahe number or of my tick cick days those which which have been occasioned ty by want of 0 prop er exercise by unnecessary exposure and by some borne degree of intemperance laiti in III eating and drinking I 1 should make a very great deduction from the whole list hat POT for this thia uncommon health healt li and tor for all the happiness of life which has been so far exceedingly nappy happy I 1 desire to render tile the most devout thanks to almighty god I 1 thank him for existence rot for the pleasure and the glory clory of 0 rational being for an immortal nature and for fill all the gratifications tile the joys and the means of Improve improvement mont vilh which lie lias bas blessed my earthly life for tile the time and the country in which I 1 have lived and for those objects of love and nn affection tion who choso whoso being has been entwined with my own |