I always heard the more you complain the longer God lets you live, If thats the case I will never die, LOL , Just kidding, That is great that she lived that long, I can only imagine the stories she could tell, I sure hope some one in her family was into Genealogy, What a gold mine she must of had in history of the family and of all the changes in our Country. Thanks for sharing. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Cuzze" <dcuzze@earthlink.net> To: <carpenter@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 6:54 PM Subject: [CARPENTER] Arbella Perkins Ewing dies at 114 yrs old > MY COUSIN LEE SENT THIS AND I THOUGHT OTHERS MIGHT WANT TO READ IT TOO: > > ARBELLA PERKINS-EWING WAS 114 YRS OLD. > > Mrs. Ewing passed away recently in Dallas, Texas. I don't think any of us > will find her in our family tree but I chose to circulate this anyway. If > you look at the 1900 Census of Freestone County, Texas, on the first line > you will find ARBELLA PERKINS listed as a six-year old female, born in > March 1894. That would make her 114 years old. She was certified as the > third oldest living person in the world. The second oldest still lives in > Indiana and the oldest in Portugal, both are also 114. I wonder if women > live longer because they are better at dealing with the aches and pains of > aging. > > > "From The Pit Of The Peach State" > > James "Lee" Weaver > > mailto:wi4r@comcast.net > > http://www.home.comcast.net/~wi4r > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CARPENTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >