100 Years Mrs. Nancy Quinby Larwill celebrated her 100th birthday at her home in Wooster, OH, May 9th, 1893. She was b. in Fallowfield township, or what may now be Carroll, Washington Co., PA, 3 miles from Parkison's Ferry, which she tells me is as familiar to her as Wooster. Her father, Ephraim Quinby, JR., m. Miss Ammie Blackamore, in Brownsville, PA, and 3 children were born when he founded the colony in Warren, OH. Their names were Nancy, Samuel, and William. The latter has often been heard to say that his mother rode on horseback behind him when he came to OH. As he was a babe 6 months old, it is altogether probably he was right. Samuel and William are deceased, as are Elizabeth Heaton, Arabrilla Potter, Mary Girling Spelman, Charles, James and Ephraim III. Warren and George Quinby live at Wooster - Warren at the age of 85 and George at 78. The family are and ever have been singularly and happily united, and maintain the fondest affection for each other. Ephraim Quinby's father, Ephraim, never emigrated. Ephraim, JR, came west with his uncle, Joseph Hall, and family while a lad. His brother, Samuel Quinby, lived at the Horse Shoe Bend, on the farm now owned by James Sampson, and did not leave Washington Co. until some years after Ephraim, JR, formed his settlement of 20 families at Warren, OH, in 1799, nearly all former residents of Washington Co., PA. Joseph H. Larwill, a surveyor, was employed by Col. Beaver to draught plans and survey his lands. Beaver was the starting point of emigration either by land or water. My father remembers no sugar, tea, coffee or calico could be had on the western reserve nearer than Beaver, and the produce was there exchanged for these then, as now, necessaries of life. May 22, 1817, Joseph H. Larwill and Nancy Quinby m. at her father's, in Warren, by Rev. Adamson Bentley. The home overlooks the town, on the banks of Mahonong river, and is known as Quinby Hill - a beautiful place - now occupied by George B. Quinby, grandson of Ephraim, JR. The wedding party went to Wooster on horseback, and on July 4, 1817, Mrs. Larwill cooked her first dinner in a house which stood where now stands the Frick Memorial Block. Early in life Mrs. Larwill united with the Baptist church of Warren, and has been a member of the Bethany Baptist Congregation of Wooster since it was organized, and the Quinby family in Warren has always been among the staunch supporters of the Baptist faith. Samuel Quinby, Sarah Quinby Reeves, and Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell, were the only remaining members to charter a new church when Adamson Bentley and his whole church membership were converted to Disciple belief by the eloquent evangelistic sermons of Alexander Campbell, in 1832. It was then the Quinby element held to the Baptist faith, and began anew to build the present outlook for Baptists in Warren. Descended from Quaker stock, born and reared on the neutral grounds of the revolutionary days, faith in God, and great goodness of heart, had secured to them the confidence and love of their fellow men. Joseph H. Larwill honored his employer, Mr. Beaver, by naming the streets in Wooster, Beaver, Henry for the son, Martilla for the daughter, and Larwill street for his own family, where he resided the greater part of his life, dying Nov. 20, 1867. No children blessed the union, but nieces and nephews call them blessed. One, Mrs. Nannie Laubach, of Pittsburgh, was presented by her centenarian aunt with the gold watch and chain she had carried, which had been purchased for her by Mr. Larwill in Philadelphia, in 1857. A hundred rosebuds arranged in an immense bowl, from her two brothers and the nieces and nephews, a hundred navel oranges, from a niece, Mrs. Estep, of San Francisco; a book entitled "100 Birthdays" from nieces in Washington, DC, and many evidences of love and affection were noticed. The room, which is in her own home, and where she has lived since her husband's death, to be near her brothers, was most handsomely decorated with flowers in profusion from loving friends. On waking in the morning she remarked, "If Mr. Larwill were living, we'd have a feast today"; and though Mr. Larwill will looked down from his portrait, draped in flowers and ever greens, there was a feast of reason and a flow of soul, for she was able to receive over a hundred friends, who each said a few congratulory sentences, to all of whom she replied fittingly and presented them with a card on which were printed these lines, arranged and suggested by a deceased but loving niece, Lizzie Quinby Stiles: A hundred years, a hundred years, To walk the grand old earth, And see a nation rise and grow To greatness from its birth. A hundred years, a hundred years, To drink the air and light; But happy when the shadows fall To bid the world "good-night". A hundred years of tranquil life, And nearer God each day; The years, like roses, when they die, In fragrance pass away. That any one could enjoy life at 100 years is evidence of care for youth and latter-day attendance most complete. Mrs. Kate Potter Petit, a niece, has guarded her the past 7 years from every possible care, and Frederika Link has performed for 38 years a loving service in the Larwill household. Mrs. Larwill cannot be said to suffer from the weight of years. Her hearing has been defective, but time has not dimmed her sight or repressed fro her the voice of friends. She sits up all day and observes everything about her, and in the funeral of her life-long friend, Rev. Dr. David Kammerer, which took place the same day, was heard to express sorrow and sympathy. She made inquiry for absent friends and sent messages of love to those who feared to weary her by coming. En route I made the acquaintance of Mrs. Parkison, of Beaver Falls, who informed me her husband is a descendant of Joseph Parkison, and on telling Mrs. Larwill of the incident, she replied: "I was 7 years old when my father moved to Warren; I rode on horseback, and had often in his company been to Parkison's Ferry, where Mr. Parkison had his 3 mills, and was entertained by Mrs. Parkison while the grist was being ground." She particularly remembers the flowers and fruit, and was impressed that the surroundings were superior. Ephraim and Samuel Quinby were the only sons of Ephraim Quinby, SR., and Elizabeth Hall Halliday, who emigrated to Washington Co. and are the progenitors of the name in this vicinity, excepting William H. Quinby, of Cleveland, who is descended from Moses Quinby, a brother of Ephraim, SR., and William E. Quinby, president of the Detroit Free Press Co., of Detroit, whose father emigrated to that city from Brewer, ME, in 1845, and can in all probablility trace his lineage to previous Huguenot emigration. In connection with this sketch it is of interest to note that Mrs. Teresa Quinby Carver, of Sharon, PA, is a daughter of Samuel Quinby, and for a number of years made her home with her aunt, Mrs. Larwill, in Wooster. Her father, Samuel Quinby, was a soldier in the revolutionary war and was honored by military obsequies Sep. 10, 1840. She is one of the exceptional daughters of the revolution, in that she is entitled to a pension, among but few others left in the Union, and enjoys length of days in the home of her youth amid pleasant associations. E. R. Beebe.