Centenarians

Ethel’s life is noteworthy for living more than 100 years, but she also happened to be the last person buried in Section 131, which was owned by the Philadelphia Conference…

The title of “Oldest Old Maid” was proudly claimed by Mary Ann Crothers before she died in 1898 at age 104 because she had never been married. So far, four…

Europe was well represented in this family’s lineage. Katharine’s father’s parents were German and Swiss who settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania while her mother’s parents arrived in Philadelphia  from Scotland and…

The famine that swept Ireland in the late 1840s was the motivation for as many as a million of its citizens to come to America. Among them was Elizabeth’s parents…

Many children are given the same middle name as their mother’s maiden name, and so it was with Annie. Her mother’s family was one of the founders of their little…

The Lidazky family brought Amelia into the world when they lived in Germany, then brought her to America in 1880. Nothing more is known of her family or her life…

The definition of an “old maid” is a woman who never married and is no longer young. Today it’s considered an offensive term, but in 1897 Mary considered it an…

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…

  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…