He was an elderly man and steward of the Jesuits when they
were expelled from their property near this location in 1767. In
the year 1838 there was a witness in a judicial trial in South
America who was born on the night of the great earthquake which
destroyed the town of Ambato in 1698. How much longer this man
who was cradled by an earthquake lived is not as yet reported. In
the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, as late as 1893 a man died at the
age of one hundred and thirty-seven. The census of 1864 for the
town of Pilaguin, Ecuador, lying 11,000 feet above the level of
the sea and consisting of about 2000 inhabitants, gives 100 above
seventy, 30 above ninety, five above one hundred, and one at one
hundred and fifteen years.
Francis Auge died in Maryland in 1767 at the age of one hundred
and thirty-four. He remembered the execution of Charles I and had
a son born to him after he was one hundred.
There are several other instances in which men have displayed
generative ability in old age. John Gilley, who died in Augusta,
Maine, in 1813, was born in Ireland in 1690. He came to this
country at the age of sixty, and continued in single blessedness
until seventy-five, when he married a girl of eighteen, by whom
he had eight children.
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