TWO CENTENARIANS DEAD

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 3

TWO CENTENARIANS DEAD

Pledge Kept for Ninety Years The death is announced of John Carthy, of Ballinamore, who is believed to have been 116 years old, and of Mrs. Anne Maria Lang, of Monmouth, aged 100. Mr. Carthy until he reached the age of 20 spoke only Irish. On August X 1842, he joined a procession several thousand strong from Ballinamore to Bawboy, where Father Mathew, thto Irish temperance apostle, was addresair ing a monster demonstration, and young Carthy took the pledge, which he kept till his death. He preserved the pledge card which he signed. Mr. Oarthy’s tale of the famine 1847 is carefully preserved, and is regarded as a striking account of th£t episode in Ireland’s history. Mrs. Lang was the grandmother the Rev. Gordon Lang, formerly La®our member of Parliament for Oldhanj. She had lived in the cottage in which she died for half a century. She saw the laying of the first railway track between London and Gloucester.