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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 48, 28 March 1884, Page 13

They are making a fuss in lowa over an old lady of ninety who has a total posterity of 215 descendants, among whom are included 153 great grandchildren. We are pleased to hear from lowa on this subject, bat we can not avoid telling them in Marion County that they are foolish to brag about a little family of 215. We have a venerable matron named Elizabeth Truelove Squibbles, now residing in San Joan Capistrano, who is 103 years oil and has twentythree children, all of whom are alive and married, and have givon to the census 279 children, all of whom are manied and have registered 3,312 boys and girls, mostly boys. These in turn have married and are now the proud mothers aud fathers of 39,74t babies, all doing well and working at different trades. In California we are not hunting any Liiliputiau stories about a "total posterity " of 215 deuendants. — San Fra/noisoo News Letter.