Cincinnati Daily Press

Old Age in Cincinnati. There are living in Longworth's Barracks, on Sixth street, several females who have far exceeded the age usually allotted to members of the human family. The oldest, an old negro woman, aged one hundred and five years, remembers all about the Revolution, as she was then living in Virginia, and recollects hiding articles in the woods to prevent their being stolen by the red-coats. The former owner of this negro lives at present in the same house, and is seventy-nine years of age. In a single room near by are three old Irish women, aged respectively ninety-seven, eighty and eighty-five years. None of these use spectacles, and are able to thread the finest needles without difficulty. They are also still able to work, doing light jobs for their support. Nearly all the men belonging to the Irish population in that vicinity have volunteered, and these old women are as earnest in urging them to go as they are in praying for their safe return.