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Three Score and Ten

The Marietta Register, January 7, 1875

Capt. William Warren, of Marietta, furnishes us the following list of persons aged 70 years and upwards, who live in this immediate vicinity, principally in Marietta township.  This list is as near perfect as it is possible to make it - some few being omitted at their own request.  It required a great deal of labor to complete it, and it will be highly appreciated by our readers:

List of Gentlemen.
Augustus Stone, 94
Russell Fuller, 91
Zacharia Brown, 91
Sampson Cole, 90
Capt. Augustus Case (Captain in War of 1812), 90
John Boyles, 89
Solomon Dick, 88
Rev. George Cox, 87
Isaac Day, 87
John J. Preston, 87
John Baldwin, 86
Michael Braddock, 86
William Corner, 86
Weston Thomas, 85
John D. Chamberlain (Captain in the War of 1812, commanding a company under Gen. Harrision.), 85
Collis Dibble, 85
Jasher Taylor, 85
John Dulty, 84
Hartness Wells, 84
Peter Smith, 84
Hezekiah Peck, 84
Frederick North, 84
Joseph Thompson, 83
John Tidd, 83
Joseph E. Hall, 82
Nathaniel Bishop, 81
Nathaniel Holden, 81
(The two last named born the same day.)
David Wright, 81
Capt. Hiram Birch, 80
(Capt. Birch was born October 13, 1796, in Newtown, Conn.; moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1800; moved to Long Reach, Ohio, in 1804, on what is now known as the Greene farm; moved to Newport, in 1808; helped make the brick for the Greene house, now owned by Capt. John Varley; commenced boating on a small batteaux, going from Pittsburgh to Louisville, in 1812; took a keel-boat, late in the fall of 1812, for Hart & McCullough, loaded with goods, from Pittsburgh to Nashville; sold the boat, and walked home; went to New Orleans in the fall of 1813 as pilot of a flat boat and walked back to Wheeling; the next two years made two or three trips on flat boats to New Orleans, each year, walked back and struck the Ohio river at Maysville, some times, and other times went to New York on vessels from New Orleans, and then walked to Pittsburgh; went on the steamer Washington in 1816, as pilot with John Wood; in June, same year, was blown up on this boat opposite the mouth of the Muskingum; neither of the pilots were much hurt; he walked to Belpre the same day.  Has followed the river as pilot and Captain of Steamboats from 1816 to the 5th of January 1868, and during this time has piloted steamboats on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and all their tributaries.  In 1827 was blown up on the steamer Union at the Fowler Wood Yard, Sugar Creek Bend, between Cincinnati and Louisville.  Was blown up on the steamer Kanawha, at Guyandotte, in August 1829, and was scalded badly.  Had a fight with Indians up Arkansas, Webers Falls, same winter of the Florida War.  Was blown up on the Harry Dean, near Gallipolis, January 5th, 1868, and so injured as not to be able to stand up very well since, but has made a few trips as pilot since.)

Rev. Ambros Asbury, 80
John Kexel, 80
Abraham Burkhart, 80
John Delany, 80
Wm. Stanhope, 79
Col. John Mills, 79
George Elston, 79
Charles Atkinson, 79
James Jones, 79
Benjamin Geren, 79
Rev. Pardon Cook, 78
Thomas Hill, 78
Israel Barns, 77
Herman Hasted, 77
Amos Dye, 77
W. H. Combs, 76
A. T. Nye, 76
James Dutton, 76
Wm. King, 76
Captain Henry Fearing, 76
Lucius Brigham, 76
Sereno Hollister, 76
A. Woodruff, 76
Edward Davis, 76
Silas Slocomb, 76
Jacob Michael, 76
Samuel Caywood, 76
Col. David Barber, 76
Capt. William Knox, 75
Charles T. Sharp, 75
James McKee, 75
Godfrey Aplin, 75
W. Wilcox, 74
Josiah Dow, 74
Thomas Porter, 74
Joseph Jones, 74
Henry Wehrs, 74
Chad. Phillips, 74
John Schramm, 74
John Conner, 74
Jacob Lander, 74
Greydon Medlicott, 74
Wm. Warren, 74
James Dutton, 74
William Payne, 74
Daniel Miller, 74
Jacob Shaffer, 74
Conrad Bissantz, 74
Henry Weber, 74
Van Thorniley, 74
John West, 74
Peter Springer, 73
Calvin Hildreth, 73
John G. Congdon, 73
David C. Skinner, 73
Henry Weppler, 73
Johnathan Nayler, 73
John Richards, 73
Rev. William Pearce, 73
John Molter, 72
Courtland Shephard, 72
Merrit Judd, 72
Adam Baker, 72
Thomas J. Westgate, 71
John Stricker, 71
Samuel H. Fuller, 70
James W. Clogston, 70
William Clancy, 70
Dr. James Watson, 70
Eliphalet Dow, 70
Dr. Seth Hart, 70
Esq. David Barber, 70
Joseph H. Higley, 70
John R. Tucker, 70
Harlow Chapin, Esq., 70
Luther Edgerton, 70
Jacob Wolf, 70
John Barnes, 70

List of Ladies.
Catharine Highland, 96
Margaret Holst, 90
Mary Thorniley, 87
Mrs. T. C. Smith, 87
Mary Bartlett, 87
Barbary Dick, 86
Lucy Gill, 86
Margaret Wisman, 86
Charlotte Eveleigh, 84
Lucinda O. Jett, 83
Mary Curtis, 83
Eliza Creel, 83
Lucretia Vinton, 83
Rebecca Whitney, 82
Eliza Davis, 82
Mary Jett, 81
Theodotia Buell, 80
Lucy Chapman, 80
M. L. Goddard, 80
Martha Cox, 80
Charlotte Stone, 80
Sophia Fisher, 80
M. H. Collins, 79
Mrs. E. Howison, 78
Eliza Bishop, 78
Edna Dibble, 78
Sarah Braddock, 78
(Mr. Braddock and wife were married in August, 1814.)
Margaret Thompson, 78
Mary Pugh, 78
Nancy Reckard, 78
Sarah Dutton, 77
Lucretia Bryan, 77
Sarah Jones, 77
Eliza Stramann, 77
Maria Thomas, 76
Kate Haag, 77
Catharine Michael, 77
Abigail Hovey, 76
Mrs. F. Burger, 76
Delilah Reckard, 76
Catharine Day, 76
Rebecca McAllister, 76
Angelina Stanley, 76
Lydia Payne, 75
Ann Cole, 75
Daphne Squires, 75
Mrs. Burkhart, 75
Anna Cisler, 75
Charlotte G. Grosvenor, 75
Eliza Buck, 75
Rebecca Geren, 74
Elizabeth Test, 74
Rebecca Sharp, 74
Laura Chamberlain, 74
Irena Buell, 74
Lydia Chesebro, 74
Sarah Fearing, 74
Mrs. Bartemas, 74
Mrs. Newton, 73
Eliza Koontz, 73
Mary Reynolds, 73
Sarah Daniels, 73
Mrs. Sutton, 73
Nancy Hutchinson, 73
Eliza Test, 73
Mrs. Courtland Sheppard, 72
Sophrona Crawford, 72
Ann Hazlett, 72
Fortune Cook, 72
Mary Butcher, 71
Nellie Kider, 71
Lucinda Connor, 70
Mary Buck, 70
Amanda Nash, 70
Polly Alcock, 70
Keziah Cherry, 70
Elizabeth West, 70

January 1, 1875.

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