TWO CENTENARIANS DEAD
PLEDGE KEPT FOR 90 YEARS The death is announced of John Carth}', of JBallinamoro, 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 1, 1842, he joined a procession several thousand strong from Ballinamore to Bavvboy, where Father Mathew, the Irish temperance apostle, was addressing a monster demonstration, and young Carthy took the pledge, which ho kept till his death. He preserved the pledge card which he signed. Cnrthy's tale of the famine of 1847 is carefully preserved, and is regarded as a striking account of that episode in Ireland's history. Mrs. Lang was the grandmothor of the Rev, Gordon Lang, formerly Labour member of Parliament for Oldham. She had lived in the cottage in which she died tor half a century. She saw the laying of the first railway track between London and Gloucester.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21254, 6 August 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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