, Louisa Truxo, who died in South America at
the age of one hundred and seventy-five.

Huteland speaks of Joseph Surrington, who died near Bergen, Norway, at
the age of one hundred and sixty. Marvelous to relate, he had one
living son of one hundred and three and another of nine. There has been
recently reported from Vera Cruz, Mexico, in the town of Teluca, where
the registers are carefully and efficiently kept, the death of a man
one hundred and ninety-two years old--almost a modern version of
Methuselah. Buffon describes a man who lived to be one hundred and
sixty-five. Martin mentions a man of one hundred and eighty. There was
a Polish peasant who reached one hundred and fifty-seven and had
constantly labored up to his one hundred and forty-fifth year, always
clad lightly, even in cold weather. Voigt admits the extreme age of one
hundred and sixty.

There was a woman living in Moscow in 1848 who was said to be one
hundred and sixty-eight; she had been married five times and was one
hundred and twenty-one at her last wedding. D'Azara records the age of
one hundred and eighty, and Roequefort speaks of two cases at one
hundred and fifty.

There are stories of an Englishman who lived in the sixteenth century
to be two hundred and seven, and there is a parallel case cited.

Van Owen tabulates 331 cases of deaths between 110 and 120, 91 between
120 and 130, 37 between 130 and 140, 11 at 150, and 17 beyond this age.
While not vouching for the authenticity in each case, he has always
given the sources of information.

Quite celebrated in English history by Raleigh and Bacon was the
venerable Countess Desmond, who appeared at Court in 1614, being one
hundred and forty years old and in full possession of all her powers,
mental and physical. There are several portraits of her at this
advanced age still to be seen. Lord Bacon also mentions a man named
Marcus Appenius, living in Rimini, who was registered by a Vespasian
tax-collector as being one hundred and fifty.

There are records of Russians who have lived to one hundred and
twenty-five, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and thirty-five, one
hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and fifty. Nemnich speaks of
Thomas Newman living in Bridlington at one hundred and fifty-three
years. Nemnich is confirmed in his account of Thomas Newman by his
tombstone in Yorkshire, dated 1542.

In the chancel of the Honington Church, Wiltshire, is a black marble
monument to the me