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 >> >> >> >> >> > >