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From: "Jean Strain" <>
Subject: Re: [AR-OLD-NEWS] longevity!
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:57:16 -0500
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Speaking of longevity...my maternal Gr-G'pa (William Marshall Green) & Gr-G'ma (Nancy Elizabeth Scoggins) had 15 children! Can y'all imagine trying to FEED all those kids???????? Hugs Jean Fox Strain
----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Sanders
To:
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: [AR-OLD-NEWS] longevity!


Let's not take these old timers too lightly.
They were made of stern stuff.
My grandmother bore 15--9 boys and 6 girls.
The first child, a little girl, fell into the fire at the washpot at age
3 and died from her burns.
All the others survived to marry, and all but one of those had children;
one of the older girls had 10 and raised them all.
At my grandmother's funeral, there were 104 persons present descended
from her body.
Best wishes,
Ed

Toni wrote:

>AH-ha! ;-)
>I have this man beat! (well not me directly, but an ancestor!) And the proof
>is in the Shiloh Museum in Springdale!
>ggg-grandfather Peter Mankins Sr. 1770-1881, buried outside of Fayetteville
>(I still don't know who owns the cemetery land, but it's kept up nicely).
>His photograph hangs in the museum, plus they have a small file on him.
>You know how you discover an ancestor that you would like to meet during
>their day...he's the one! With one wife, he fathered 11 children! hello!
>LOL - that poor woman. I just can't fathom bearing 11 children...and keeping
>up with them! Of course, my mother is 91 and carries on that hardy
>longevity line, and she raised plenty of children and grandchildren through
>her younger years. Heck, she had me at age 50, then adopted triplets four
>years later....
>The stories I have are quite colorful!(on Peter Sr.)
>And Fran, thank you for sharing this information. I love reading these
>things and think that one day I will be able to be inspired to write some
>wild western novel!
>Toni-Marie
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Fran Warren" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 12:46 PM
>Subject: [AR-OLD-NEWS] August 1, 1906 Van Buren Argus
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>>August 1, 1906 Van Buren Argus
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>>OLDEST MAN IN ARKANSAS
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>>Grandfather Jake Crabtree, colored, of Lavaca, is in the city on his
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>annual visit to his son-in-law, Jerry Norwood. He bears the distinction of
>being the oldest man in Western Arkansas or the Indian Territory and is now
>in his 106th year. His hair is as white as the cotton he has worked in for
>practically a century, yet he is active, has good eyesight, and with the
>exception of being slightly deaf does not appear to be more than 75 years
>old.
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>>He is a quarter blood Indian, and to this fact he attributes his long life
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>and he believes the Lord will spare his life many years yet. He talking
>interestingly of his life and the many stirring incidents connected with it.
>His life has been largely spent in Arkansas and the Indian Territory, and he
>shows a wonderful memory, especially in matters of 80 or 90 years ago. He
>admits he always liked his toddy, and says that he has used tobacco for
>fully 100 years, but he is thinking seriously of giving up the habit, for
>about the close of the war of 1812 some one told him that tobacco was very
>injurious to one’s health, and that he has been thinking about that ever
>since, and is of the opinion that he ought to quit before the habit grows
>too strong for him.
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>>Fran Alverson Warren
>>e-mail:
>>479-369-2703
>>http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/
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