Elena Elizabeth Young Scott
The youngest child in a family has the advantage of learning from the older ones. The tenth child in the Young family was known as Lena, so she learned from…
Read MoreGrace Hickman
Grace was born to a family that was already well-acquainted with grief. Her father was a carpenter who married in 1861. The couple had a son in 1862, but he…
Read MoreMary Elizabeth Poynter McClure
Mary Poynter’s family was created when William Poynter married Ann Savin in 1828. The only other family information available is that Olive was their oldest child and that they lived…
Read MoreOlive Gertrude Landis Lannon
Olive’s father, George, was a house painter who married her mother, Elizabeth, a dozen years before Olive was born. She had three older siblings but two died before she was…
Read MoreSarah Jane Lockhart Connell
Sarah knew about the Korean War because she read about it in the newspaper. But unlike others who only read about the Civil War in history books, she could have…
Read MoreMartha Jane Gibson Taylor
The number of people who are living more than 100 years is on the rise, as is the average lifespan. It may not be surprising to find more than one…
Read MoreThomas Johnson
John Lundevig and Ingeborg Nielsdir were married in Mandal, Vest-Agder, Norway and had a son named Oley. He changed his name to Thomas Johnson when he came to America in…
Read MoreNancy Lee “Nezzie” Barlow
It’s rare to find more than one person over the age of 100, known as a centenarian, buried in the same cemetery. More than a dozen of them (so far)…
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