Scanlon - Catherine - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Mrs. Catherine Scanlon, living in the southeast part of town, is one of the oldest persons in the county. She lives with her son-in-law, Mr. Fitzgibbon, and was 99 or 100 years old, the first week of last month. For about five years she has been blind and has not been able to sit up or work, but her appetite is good and her hearing is remarkably acute for one so old. She replied to inquiries promptly and as cheerily as if she were in her teens. About eleven years ago one of her sons was killed on the railroad, and her mother’s heart was so deeply wounded that she wept until her sight and strength both began to fail. Her daughter attributes the loss of her sight to this grief. She is the mother to eleven children, six of whom are yet living, the oldest being 80 years of age. She removed to this country from Ireland twenty years ago, her conversation being strongly marked by the peculiar brogue of that people. To the time of her son’s death by violence, she had always been of vigorous strength and good health. Unless attracted by some disease, not now developed, she bids fair to live several years.—Lebanon Patriot -s