BRIDE AT 110?
Workmen engaged in cleaning an old graveyard attached to a church in Carmarthen, South Wales, came across an old tombstone ■ embedded flat in .the earth which, if the inscription carved on it be true, marked the burial place of a woman who had lived to the hoary age of 18L years. The inscription reads:— Here Lieth the Body of Hopkin Davies, late of this town, who departed this life on the llth of November, 1810, aged 71 years. Also, His wife, Ann Davies, died November 14th, 1831, aged 181 years. The carving of the number 181, says the "Carmarthen Journal," is quite consistent with the other wording of the inscription, and there is nothing to indicate that the original number has been added to or interfered with in any way. On this basis the wife lived 21 years after her husband, and was 89 years old when he was born, and, assuming that he married her when he was 21 years of age, his wife would then be a blushing bride of 110 summers. Another old gravestone is that of Adam Black, but some mischievous hand has added a full-stop after the initial ""A."
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17461, 23 May 1922, Page 7
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197BRIDE AT 110? Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17461, 23 May 1922, Page 7
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