Show the oldest couple m illinois thu oldest marrieul marri eil couple in the slate of illinois are nathaniel ami avilia bis wife aged respectively und 91 years nathaniel jankins is one fourth indian liis father nathaniel being a half laced and bis a slave belonging to nathaniel jankins alic latter was a lalive of montgomery coulty from whence aie moncil to what is now jefferson county kentucky where nathaniel was b about alie year 1770 his master was a soldier in abe revolutionary war and served throughout its he died in tennessee river twenty gac icalea above llie city of at ii advanced old age about seventy acm ao wife sukie jarriet Jarri lt bius yearn avi ans near old alen lis W I 1 was n of llie ad did not long survive glicr master Nalba uiel Jei ikins run alic arst ferry on river called jenkins ferry and young for loady years acted as nian lie married eighty years ago lydia howard a slave of jolin howard of what is now calloway county kentucky about the 1807 isoldi and survive dav ing liick ni man and wife for eighty years five children only have been born to them of ahoi are let livin john aged ga years alijah 19 years and ariminta Ari ninta la 17 years the old people arc living knitli is wife 0 calvin of elijah alic freedom of iiii father many years ago and alie howards freed lydi aa lf atas llie of glicr master s brother the eld ecole have limbed the hill of life together aud scarly to the valley on alio llio other side they retain to a remarkable degree their faculties nathaniel lias been blind for evv eral years his bearing i is good aud liis memory apparently lydia has all glicr faculties of braind and body bolh are in health only till the have a little grown aliey have for fifty lived in ills 11 and are veil and favorably known to all of alo old lucro aud ad ew |