On the register of the Cheshire Parish is a record of the
death of Thomas Hough of Frodsam in 1591 at the age of one
hundred and forty-one.
Peter Garden of Auchterless died in 1775 at the age of one
hundred and thirty-one. He had seen and talked with Henry Jenkins
about the battle of Flodden Field, at which the latter was
present when a boy of twelve. It seems almost incredible that a
man could say that he had heard the story of an event which had
happened two hundred and sixty-three years before related by the
lips of an eye-witness to that event; nevertheless, in this case
it was true. A remarkable instance of longevity in one family has
recently been published in the St. Thomas's Hospital Gazette.
Mrs. B., born in 1630 (five years after the accession of Charles
I), died March 13, 1732. She was tended in her last illness by
her great-granddaughter, Miss Jane C., born 1718, died 1807, and
Miss Sarah C., born 1725, died 1811. A great-niece of one of
these two ladies, Mrs. W., who remembers one of them, was born in
1803, and is at the present time alive and well. It will be seen
from the above facts that there are three lives only to bridge
over the long period between 1630 and 1896, and that there is at
present living a lady who personally knew Miss C.
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