MRS. BOURKE, AGED 121.

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 10

MRS. BOURKE, AGED 121.

Mra.; Bourka, who died at Nenagh; Co. Tipperary, last January, is reported to have reached the marvellous ago of 121. Sho claimed to have had 50 direct descendants Hgktiag in tbo war,' tho majority of whom were wounded and two killed.. Mrs. Bourko's 121 years are by no mama a. record; somo poople have worked longer than that. In 1904, the reghtienfa! chaplain of the 18th Bengal Infantry was still conducting services in Calcutta at tho ag« of 130. In 1908 _ Andrei . Nikolaiovitoh Schmidt, a Kuasian, produced - papora which showed that_ he was 136 years old, and had enlisted in ■ the Koya! battalion in 1796. ri3io svmo year Hadji Raouf was 153, and was etill earning his living as ;v saddler ia Oonstautii;op!e. but he was a juvenile compared with Quc-Ka-Jvu.ni, an Indian chief, who roamed tho ahoros of Puget Sound at the ago of 160. He was generally, considered by Europeans niors likely to bo 200. and ho claimed to remember the time whun iron was unknown to hia tribo. Ho was 2 fees 5 inches iv height, and tKd not- woigh 50 pounds.. .