The “oldest inhabitant” of Washington county is dead. Old Cajo departed for the shadowless land on Sunday last. His age was not certainly known, but it was somewhere between 113 and 120 years. He was a slave of Blennerhassett, and when misfortunes fell upon the master more than half a century ago, Cajo was sent to the Ohio shore and set free. He was then an old man, and has lived in Watertown ever since. He resided entirely alone, and no smoke having been seen to come from his cabin for two or three days, a neighbor called on Sunday, and found him so far gone as to be unable to make himself understood.
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