My friends - I have had so many requests for the snippet concerning Pleasant "Ples" Warf, which was recently offered in the Calloway County Early Newspaper Snippets series that I have decided to post it to the lists today. Mr. Warf claimed to be 121 years old. He lived in Marshall County, although the snippet appeared in the Murray Ledger newspaper. Mr. Warf claimed to have been born in 1781, and that his father was a Revolutionary War soldier. Here is the snippet: Murray Ledger 28 Aug 1902 "As little as has been said about it, no doubt Marshall County has living within her bounds one of the oldest men, if not the very oldest in the whole country. Old 'Uncle Ples Warf', who now lives at the county poor house at Glade, claims that he will be 121 years old next October. He says his father was in the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, which battles closed the Revolutionary War. 'Uncle' Ples claims his parents always told him he was born on the day the Battle of Yorktown was fought, October 19, 1781, which makes him 120 years and ten months old. Mr. Warf moved to this country from Virginia 40 years ago and lived for many years in the Magness section of the County until 5 years ago, when he became unable to work, and was sent to the county poor house, where he could be cared for. His wife died and year or so before he went to the poor house, thus leaving him, 'old, lonely and in the way', as he has no relative in this country. He has been an honest, hardworking, and quiet citizen, having never made any pretensions religiously until right recently, he having been baptized and brought out. Mr. Warf is a good old-time citizen and possesses good intellectual facilities, but was educationally limited. He has two sons, one of whom is now living, but not near here. We have heard him tell how he and his wife Gennie, 'took up together'. Indeed, 'Uncle Ples' is a wonderful man. He is small in stature but possessed of a strong constitution, but has a club hand, it having been burned and drawn so that he has but little use of it." My late grandmother met Pleasant Warf in 1901, when she and my grandfather were first married. He(Warf) was selling off some farm items and they went up to Marshall Co. to look at them. I don't know if they bought anything, but Grandmother told me several times that my grandfather told her that Mr. Warf was born during the American Revolution. Grandmother said that, at the time, she thought Grandfather was just joking, but apparently, if Mr. Warf was correct about his age, there was truth to it. It is too bad that a biographer did not interview him - I can just imagine what a couple of hours with him would reap. I will return tomorrow with another in the KY Appeals Court cases series. -B ================================================================================