Show fi 4 GIVEN CREDIT FOR LONG LIFE t inscription w tombstone made man rival of aleh IB memory til adam who departed this lle december the 1777 aged 96 acara thlu inscription startling indeed at first glance appears on in the old upper burying ground ori the east side of main street neove washington jane the stranger would pose that he had discovered a rival toyn aleh s age record cut the na taj tives would relieve him of that 1 l idea 4 s tombstone Is well cnown in germantown it Is one of the first objects of childish hence every ofte knows its history how it Is accounted for when died he was ca years old the marble cutter who inscribed the sto neno historical records tell germantown s methuselah who be was made the mistake 0 reversing the numerals and inscribed the age as ag then to rectify the error he inscribed a 9 after the 6 and filled the first 9 with mortar mak ing the age read ca but the ravages of time and the storms of years finally wore away the mortar and tor over halt a century the first figure has been visible mak ing apparently the oldest man who ever lived adam was no doubt an early settler although he Is not mentioned in any of the historical records ilia wife anna margaret who died two years after is buried beside him the stones at the head of the graves are still inscriptions can easily be discern Philadelphia ed north american |