80-YEAR-OLD SON AT WEDDING
CAPETOWN, Feb. 6. Josef Windovel, a 127-year-old Hottentot, has recently married a third wife; aged 47, at Middelburgt. Ono of tho centenarian's sons, who is more than 80, attended tho ceremony. There seems to oo no doubt of Windovel's age, as tho Berlin Missionary Society has records which substantiate the claim. Tho Hottentot, at the ago of six, was bought from shivery in Capo Colony for tho price of a piece of meat 'by the Do Jaeger family, of Hartebeesthoek, with whom ho migrated to the Transvaal.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 9
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9180-YEAR-OLD SON AT WEDDING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 9
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