The State, Columbia, South Carolina, December 1, 1910, p. 1. NOT FRIEND OF BARBERS Nashville, Indiana, Man Passed 90 Years without Ever Getting Shave or Haircut Nashville, Indiana, November 30-Elbert Merida, who lived his 90 years without ever having been shaved or having his hair cut, is dead at his home near here of typhoid fever. He was one of the oldest settlers of Brown County. In his little log house are a number of rattlesnake skins, to wearing of which as belts he attributed his long life. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______