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Show HAD 2000 DESCENDANTS. Mrs. Roush Dies, Aged 1U5 Years, I.eaviug a ireat-Oreat-Great-(irandrhild Greatest Record in the World. Pakkfrsiukg, W. Va., April 15. Mrs. Annie Roush died at L'tart, a few miles from this city, aged nearly 10t years. It is thought that she was the head of the largest family in the world, and the only woman in this country who lived to see her sixth generation. Mrs. Roush was born at Morgantown, Pa., .Time 4, 1787, when Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson were planning the constitution. constitu-tion. Her father was David Sayre. In 101 Mr. Sayre started west, and settled above Pomeroy, on the Virginia side. Here he resided several years, finally moving up the river and crossing to the Ohio side, to where Letart now stands. In 1802 Annie married Henry Roush, and was the mother of thirteen children. The first child, 8a ah, married Thomas Coleman, and became the mother of twelve children. The next, Elizabeth, married Henry Wolf, and hi-d sixteen children. The third, Lydia, married a Mr. McClain, nd after his death married John Wagoner. It is through her children that Mrs. Roush could trace her descendants to the sixth generation. The fourth child, Annie, had an even dozen of child-en. The next four children were girls, and their progeny numbered forty-eight. The ninth died when he was young. The next two were girls and had twenty-one children. The last two children were boys and have seventeen children arovnd ttieir boards. The seco.td daughter of Lydia Wagoner, who was Mrs. Rough's third child, married a Mr. Hazlett. Their eldest son, David, is the father of six childrer , aud his eldest daughter Mary's child, Nanuie, aged, about 5 years, had the unique distinction of living at the same time as her great-great-great-grandmother. Mrs. Roush' s grandchildren numbered 135 and the total number of her great-grandchildren is not less than 500. The number of her descendants is considerably over 2000, although the exact number cannot be ascertained. |