EIGHTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD
In a cottage in the village of Southwick, near Trowbridge, Wilts, England's oldest spinster twins recently celebrated their eighty-eighth birthday. They are the Misses Mary and Martha Bennett. In all their lives they have never been separated for more than a few days. Nearly seventy years ago they were baptised together in a stream that flows near their home. When a reporter expressed the hope he would see them again next year, Mary said: "In two years I shall be ninety. I am getting a little blind and Martha is getting deaf. But we're quite happy together.* •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 16
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100EIGHTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 16
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