A Centenarian

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 14 May 1903, Page 9

A Centenarian

The latest notable Trish centenarian to die was Mr Geoige Carlton, Ballyarton, Cumber Clautly (father of the Very Rev Dean Cailton, Macclcsfiekl), remo\ing one of the links that connect tho twentieth century with the eighteenth The venerable old man, says the ' Derry Journal,' was bom as the eighteenth century was coming to a close, and thoueh his life co\cred an immense span his faculties lemained Mgorous to the end and he never lost his inertness of form and elasticity of step The late Mr. Carlton's life was full of lessons. He was born at a time when Ireland's soil was reddened by the blood-storm of '98 The chains of the Catholic still clanked o'er his limbs The voice of O'Connell had not vet been heard. Though the penal laws were largely in force, still Ireland was then a nation with a Parliament of its own He had lived through all the years of O'Connell's efforts for Ireland, and he had li\ed more than half a. century after O'Connell had been called to his reward. But for tho man individually the grandest fact was that not a stain had attached to his name through the hundred years and more he had spent in the parish.