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Show LONGEVITY IN VIRGINIA. "Mine is the prize State for longevity." longev-ity." said a Virginian who was registered regis-tered at a Chestnut street hotel. "I can produce a list of nineteen former citizens and slaves of my State whose years when they died aggregated 2241 years. Of the nineteen persons named the youngest when he died was 110 years old. Two lived to be 130, one to be 126, two. to be 121, one to be 116, two 116, three 114, one 113. two 112, two 111, one 110, one 120 and one, a negro, lived to the ripe old age of 136 years. Of all the nineteen persons only six were negroes; ne-groes; all the others were whites. "While I am in the humor I will tell another one. There Is, or was, a few years ago, standing on the banks of Neabsco creek. Virginia, a tombstone carrying probably the oldest monumental monumen-tal inscription In the United States. The date Is 1608, and it is thought that the deceased was one of John Smith's men. This is ths inscription: "Here lies ye body of Lieutenant William Herrls, who died May ye 16th, 1608, aged 65 years; by birth a Briton; a good soldier; sol-dier; a good husband and neighbor. Philadelphia Press. |