The prize could be a pint of Guinness! from, Carolyn Whitney Branagan PS. I couldn't resist that. Though I'm as Yankee as they come, I married an Irishman. ----- Original Message ----- From: "R R Kyser" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 3:05 AM Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Re: Longevity > This discussion is making me thirsty for Guinness. > > So, can anyone name a Whitney (i.e., with that name) who lived longer than > this Charles Leon? > > And can anyone name a Whitney descendent (of any surname) who lived longer > than Jessie Burdick Conrow, of Otsego Co., NY, who died at 108 yrs., 4 > mos. and 7 days? (And in three centuries as well. I mentioned her in a > November post about her noted grandson, singer Jerry Jeff Walker.) > > If not, I say these two should get a prize of sorts. > > Cheers, > Ron Kyser > > PS-- are these two fine Fowler gentlemen related through that clan as > well, or is it just a coincidence? > > > > > On Tuesday, January 18, 2005, at 12:00 AM, Maurice F Whitney wrote: > >> Just to add my two cents worth, my grandfather Dale Derrington Whitney >> died just three month short of 100. His lineage is Charles Fremont, >> Charles, Timothy Holt, Richard, Israel, Ebenezer, Richard, John and >> Elinor. >> >> Maurice Fowler Whitney 67 still kicking >> Dale Dyment Whitney 90 >> Dale Derrington Whitney 99 >> Charles Leon Whitney 102 Brother of Dale >> Jay Wallace Whitney 101 Brother of Dale >> Ralph Eugene Whitney 87 Brother of Dale >> Horace Glen Whitney 80+ Brother of Dale >> Charles Fremont Whitney 85 >> Charles Whitney 64 killed by a Tornado in Kansas >> Timothy Holt Whitney 82 >> >> Maurice Fowler Whitney >> Sherwood Arkansas >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Fowler" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 3:10 PM >> Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Longevity >> >> >>> Many of us Whitney descendants seem to have bragging rights regarding >>> long-lived ancestors. I cannot resist jumping in. Looking at my data, I >>> realize that along many lines I have birth years without the year of >>> death. Hmm, there's a project for the new year. >>> Where I do have data on life spans, there are some impressive ones. >>> Jabez Whitney (November 1767 - April 1849) lived to be 81. His second >>> wife Sally lived to be about 59. Their son William was 72 when he died. >>> His wife, a Peabody, lived to be 93. Their daughter Flora died at age >>> 82. Her ten children, born between 1880 and 1903, lived to be the >>> following ages: 1) 35; 2) 79; 3) 79; 4) 75; 5) 89; 6) 89; 7) 82; 8) 1; >>> 9) 79; 10) 94. The tenth child was my grandmother. Her daughter, my >>> mother, died at age 67, but her brother and only sibling is alive and >>> well at 70. >>> Of course, those born in the 1880s or later are a real watershed >>> generation as far as longevity is concerned: if they lived past World >>> War I, very often they lived well past any life-expectancy they would >>> have been given by the contemporary experts at their births because of >>> the advances in sanitation and medicine made during the twentieth >>> century. In other words, the population of octogenarians, nonagenarians, >>> et cetera, increased dramatically in the late twentieth century, and >>> Flora's children were in that generation. >>> >>> Miles Fowler >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________________________________________ >>> Sent via the WebMail system at mail.nexet.net >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >