MARRIED AT 128 YEARS
HOTTENTOT TAKES THIRD WIFE.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. United Service. Capetown, July 23. A magistrate at Middleburg, Transvaal, officiated at tho marriage of Windvoel, a Hottentot, who is authentically reported to be 128 years old, to his third wife, aged 47.
Windvoel was bought from slavery for a few pence at the age of six'.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1929, Page 8
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