Falmouth Outlook Friday 14 Jul 1922 Vol. 16 No. 6 Pg. 1 Col. 2 "UNCLE" JOHN SHELL DEAD John Shell, oldest man in the world, is dead at his home in Leslie county. He had records to show that he was born in Tennessee in 1788, so that he would have been 134 years old if he had lived to his next birthday, September 30th. Mr. Shell, who had lived mmore than 100 years on the same farm in Leslie county, was well past the military age limit when the Mexican war broke out and at the beginning of the Civil War was in his seventies. His actual age had often been called in question, but doctors, who examined him said that they believed he ws correnct in his statement of his longevity. One of the most remarkable things about his funeral is that at his grave two of his mourners were brothers, one 83 years older than the other, William, 90, and Albert, 7. are the twain, the latter being the son of Uncle John's second wife, who was 45 when he married her and Albert is the only child of their union. First Wife Died at 122 By his first wife, who died 12 years ago at the reput age of 122, Uncle John had four sons and a daughter, who survive him... In appearence, Mr. Shell was not greatly differenct from other extremely old persons in any community. Through considerably withered and weatherbeaten, he retained his vigor to a surprising degredd and was impatient with those who would have put him away in a chimney corner. He was five feet fie inches in height and weighted 103 pounds. ... As a man who was living when Benjamin Franklin was United States Ambassador to France; who was eleven years of the age when George Washington died, who was a voter when Napoleon Bonaparte boarded the "Bellerophon" for that faitful trip to St. Helena; who helped to celebrate the election of Andrew Jackson and the victories of the American armies in Mexico; who was a bearede veteran when the California gold rush began in 1849 and saw the troops march away to the war between the states in 1861, to the Spanish American combat in 1898, and the World War in 1917, he was the oldest link between past and present. Falmouth Outlook Friday 14 Jul 1922 Vol. 16 No. 6 Pg. 3 Col. 5 MILFORD Infant Brown, born 6 June 1922 died in few hours, daughter of W. J. Brown. Burial in Powersville Cem. Falmouth Outlook Friday 14 Jul 1922 Vol. 16 No. 6 Pg. 4 Col. 1 NEIGHBORING COUNTIES BRACKEN COUNTY NEWS Born to wife of Ora Cummins, of Neave, a son, Keneth Duffy, on 24 June. Born to wife of Ed Cummins, of Neave, as son, Edward Jr. on 27 June. Mrs. John Dixon, nee Effie Fitch, age 49, died Cincinnati, 29 June 1922. Thomas Jett, age 84, died at his home in Santa Fe, 1 July 1922. Survived by one daughter, Mrs. Louisa Askins, Santa Fe and one brother, Dan Jett, Brooksville. M. M. Gordley, age about 65, died at home in Mt. Olivet, 1 Jul 1922. Verner Thompson, age 28, son of James M. Thompson, of near Walcott, died Ft. Thomas on 3 July 1922 of tuberculosis contracted while in service during World War. Gladys Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Charles List, born 30 Jun 1909, died 3 July 1922. Mrs. Martha Cummins, age 91 on 3 May 1922, died at home of her son, John Cummins, near Chatam on 3 July 1922. Survived by three sons: James, John adn Ab Cummins. Buried in Pleasant Ridge Cem. near Berlin. Wm. D. Auxier, age about 50, died 2 July of shot gun wound inflicted on 20 June by Bernal Sparks, a tenant on the Auxier farm near Amelia, OH. Pg. 4 Col. 2 NEIGHBORING COUNTIES HARRISON COUNTY NEWS Mrs. Annie Wallace Leach died Saturday in Georgetown. John M. Day, died at Shady Nook, 2 July 1922 of cancer. Son of late Lewis andNancy day and was born on 14 June 1849. Mrs. Phoebe Bowen, wife of A. B. Bowen, died near Renaker, 2 July 1922. She was daughter of John M. & Sophia Caldwell and was born at Renaker, 6 June 1890. Will J. Garnett found dead in bed at home on Breckinridge pike, Saturday. Ernest Williams, and little son, Albert Lee were drowned in a pond in Scott Co. while bathing. Pg. 4 Col. 3 NEIGHBORING COUNTIES GRANT COUNTY NEWS Mrs. George Speagle died Friday of measles and complications of troubles. Joe Chance, 55, died at his home near Corinth, 4 Jul. 1922. Falmouth Outlook Friday 14 Jul 1922 Vol. 16 No. 6 Pg. 4 Col. 5 THE CUB REPORTER FINDS A DEAF BUSINESS MAN (Another of the articles that may be fiction or may be true, mentions Norman Bowman and Tom Perrin. dh 2 Aug. 1996 Warren Shonert called me and said that these stories were true. He knew Tom Perrin as a deaf person as the story tells about. dh) +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Items of interest to: Doug Harper Biloxi, MS