Telegraph "Boy" at Eighty.
Mrs Mary Gunni ngham, a widow, of Kingston, near Taunton, who attained the age of eighty years on June Ji<last. a_s as telegraph rao-senger. being employed at the Kingston Post Othce. Despite- her long tale of years she frequently walks twelvo miles .1 day in the di-sfharge of her duties (t h«-> '•Daily Chronicle' states). Sho ha. lived in the picture-tue village un_.i the Quantock Hills the whole of her iife, and cannot remember ever having .Dent a single night away from it. Her,
maiden name was Martin, and she » ta the daughter ot . a Kingston laj T labourer She married a farm labotire. who died hvo years ago. Shs lor many years in tho lipids, where Jm - was first employe-! ns a small child.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15022, 17 July 1914, Page 6
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