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Jonas Warren of Balydole died in 1787 aged one hundred and
sixty-seven. He was called the "father of the fishermen" in his
vicinity, as he had followed the trade for ninety-five years.
The Journal de Madrid, 1775, contains the account of a South
American negress living in Spanish possessions who was one
hundred and seventy-four years of age. The description is written
by a witness, who declares that she told of events which
confirmed her age. This is possibly the oft-quoted case that was
described in the London Chronicle, October 5, 1780, Louisa Truxo,
who died in South America at the age of one hundred and
seventy-five.
Huteland speaks of Joseph Surrington, who died near Bergen,
Norway, at the age of one hundred and sixty. Marvelous to relate,
he had one living son of one hundred and three and another of
nine. There has been recently reported from Vera Cruz, Mexico, in
the town of Teluca, where the registers are carefully and
efficiently kept, the death of a man one hundred and ninety-two
years old--almost a modern version of Methuselah. Buffon
describes a man who lived to be one hundred and sixty-five.
Martin mentions a man of one hundred and eighty. There was a
Polish peasant who reached one hundred and fifty-seven and had
constantly labored up to his one hundred and forty-fifth year,
always clad lightly, even in cold weather.
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