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Show AN OLD SAOHAX. .She Claims to 1 One Hnmlred and sietenteru Y-ara or se. New Yomr, Nov. 14 A colored col-ored woman lives at 753 Greenwich Street, who would probably compete success'uilyrorlhe honor or being the oldest rson In this city. Mrs. Lucy Ridley b her name. She claims the ripe old aite or 1 17 years. With her live her son in-law, Ueu-Juuln Ueu-Juuln Ridley, her grand-daughter, Mrs-Retiecca Rl.tley, and the lat-ter'i lat-ter'i daughter, Miss Rebecca Ridley. Rid-ley. These four persons live and evm to enjoy themselves in the basement of an old-fashloued three-story three-story house. Three, rooms are all they have. Mrs. Ridley was born In Africa and was brought to this country iu a slave ship earlier thau Bbe cau remember. She became the slave or the man she still calls Masaa James Djwny, wuo lived near Ox ford, in North Carolina. HVu James Downy died she fell Into other bands and bad several masters. She finally U-came the property or James Ridley, who also lived near Oxford. She was then sixteen y-ars old. She continued In the Ridley family until she waa rrcccl by tbe emancipation proclamation. pro-clamation. She lias been married threw times, thu first time aim r-t a century ago,and has bad nine children, child-ren, all of whum are dead. Her last husband ws one ot James Ridley's: Rid-ley's: slaves. At that limn she had a grown daughter; her bu.band'a sou by a former marriage married this daughter, and so Mrs Ridley hail a stepson aud soc-!n law in one. Mrs. Ridley's husiflnd and her daughter followed soon after. The son-ln law is the Benjamin Ridley that still lives with her. Benjamin says he" is alxty-fnur years old and his appearancu confirms con-firms bis statement. |