William Riddell, who
died at one hundred and sixteen carefully avoided water all his
life and had a love for brandy.
Possession of Faculties.--Eglebert Hoff was a lad driving a team
in Norway when the news was brought that Charles I was beheaded.
He died in Fishkill, N.Y., in 1764 at the age of one hundred and
twenty-eight. He never used spectacles, read fluently, and his
memory and senses were retained until his death, which was due to
an accident. Nicolas Petours, curate of the parish of Baleene and
afterward canon of the Cathedral of Constance, died at the age of
one hundred and thirty-seven; he was always a healthy, vigorous
man, and celebrated mass five days before his death. Mr. Evans of
Spital Street, Spitalfields, London, died in 1780 aged one
hundred and thirty-nine, having full possession of his mental
faculties. Of interest to Americans is the case of David
Kinnison, who, when one hundred and eleven, related to Lossing
the historian the tale of the Boston Tea Party, of which he had
been a member. He died in good mental condition at the age of one
hundred and fifteen. Anthony Senish, a farmer of the village of
Limoges, died in 1770 in his one hundred and eleventh year. He
labored until two weeks before his death, had still his hair, and
his sight had not failed him.
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