Longevity!!!

[Devastatin Dave]

Oldest Lady, 114, dies in Puerto Rico. (http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-obit-oldest-person,0,3280868,print.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines)
Last Civil War Widow dies at age 97 (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040531/ap_on_re_us/obit_martin)
I find this remarkable. Can you imagine the things they saw with their eyes. Please take some time to read these articles, they were both truelly special women.

[ThijsP]

Oldest lady is now from the Netherlands http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-anxious.gif

[BDC]

Quote[/b] (ThijsP @ June 01 2004,07:42)]Oldest lady is now from the Netherlands http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-anxious.gif
That weed must do you good.

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[ThijsP]

Well i think its less dameging for your health than tobacco.

[BDC]

Quote[/b] (ThijsP @ June 01 2004,20:42)]Well i think its less dameging for your health than tobacco.
Probably reduces stress levels too...

[JAG]

.. But it clearly isn't good for you.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I remember reading about a man who lived to be 166...

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

How old was the civil war widow's husband when they were married? If he was old enough to fight in the civil war, and they got married in 1920, and she was 97, there must have been quite an age gap...

[Teutonic Knight]

Quote[/b] (Big King Sanctaphrax @ June 01 2004,19:59)]How old was the civil war widow's husband when they were married? If he was old enough to fight in the civil war, and they got married in 1920, and she was 97, there must have been quite an age gap...
it said in the paper this morning that she was 21 and he 81 when they married.... how creepy is that? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-stunned.gif

[JAG]

Seems to me to be at least a 55 year age gap, the old fella must of had something she wanted http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

And she was 13 when they married http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

[JAG]

Erm 21? 2004 - 97 = 1907, 1920 - 1907 = 13 http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Quote[/b] (Teutonic Knight @ June 02 2004,01:01)]
Quote[/b] (Big King Sanctaphrax @ June 01 2004,19:59)]How old was the civil war widow's husband when they were married? If he was old enough to fight in the civil war, and they got married in 1920, and she was 97, there must have been quite an age gap...
it said in the paper this morning that she was 21 and he 81 when they married.... how creepy is that? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-stunned.gif
That alone tells you which side her husband fought for, doesn't it? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Teutonic Knight]

Quote[/b] (Big King Sanctaphrax @ June 01 2004,20:05)]
Quote[/b] (Teutonic Knight @ June 02 2004,01:01)]
Quote[/b] (Big King Sanctaphrax @ June 01 2004,19:59)]How old was the civil war widow's husband when they were married? If he was old enough to fight in the civil war, and they got married in 1920, and she was 97, there must have been quite an age gap...
it said in the paper this morning that she was 21 and he 81 when they married.... how creepy is that? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-stunned.gif
That alone tells you which side her husband fought for, doesn't it? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
http://acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_SM/0018-0404-1111-4722_SM.jpg

Suthun Pryde http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[RisingSun]

Dirty rebels. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Dîn-Heru]

Quote[/b] (Teutonic Knight @ June 02 2004,01:01)]
Quote[/b] (Big King Sanctaphrax @ June 01 2004,19:59)]How old was the civil war widow's husband when they were married? If he was old enough to fight in the civil war, and they got married in 1920, and she was 97, there must have been quite an age gap...
it said in the paper this morning that she was 21 and he 81 when they married.... how creepy is that? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-stunned.gif
It was a marrriage of conviniance, not love.


Quote[/b] ]Her mother died when she was 11. At 18, she met a cab driver named Howard Farrow, and they had a son before Farrow died in a car accident in 1926.


Stewart, her father and her son moved to Opp. Just up the road lived William Jasper Martin, a widower born in Georgia in 1845 who had a $50-a-month Confederate veteran's pension.


The 81-year-old man struck up a few conversations with the 21-year-old neighbor and a marriage of convenience was born.


I had this little boy and I needed some help to raise him, Alberta Martin recalled in a 1998 interview.



But this is the best part http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif


Quote[/b] ]
William Jasper Martin died on July 8, 1931. Two months later, Alberta Martin married her late husband's grandson, Charlie Martin. He died in 1983.

[_Martyr_]

Quote[/b] (Big King Sanctaphrax @ June 01 2004,09:05)]
Quote[/b] (Teutonic Knight @ June 02 2004,01:01)]
Quote[/b] (Big King Sanctaphrax @ June 01 2004,19:59)]How old was the civil war widow's husband when they were married? If he was old enough to fight in the civil war, and they got married in 1920, and she was 97, there must have been quite an age gap...
it said in the paper this morning that she was 21 and he 81 when they married.... how creepy is that? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-stunned.gif
That alone tells you which side her husband fought for, doesn't it? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
LMAO http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-jester.gif

[Teutonic Knight]

Quote[/b] ]uote (Teutonic Knight @ June 02 2004,01:01)
Quote (Big King Sanctaphrax @ June 01 2004,19:59)
How old was the civil war widow's husband when they were married? If he was old enough to fight in the civil war, and they got married in 1920, and she was 97, there must have been quite an age gap...

it said in the paper this morning that she was 21 and he 81 when they married.... how creepy is that?

It was a marrriage of conviniance, not love.

I don't care, it's still pretty damn freaky

[Dîn-Heru]

Freaky it is. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Major Robert Dump]

Maybe she wanted to see his bayonet

[Teutonic Knight]

Quote[/b] (Major Robert Dump @ June 02 2004,11:01)]Maybe she wanted to see his bayonet
It was probably rusty after many years of disuse http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[octavian]

out of bounds http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Teutonic Knight]

Quote[/b] (octavian @ June 02 2004,13:50)]out of bounds http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
granted http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

*goes back into corner and continues to make nasty comments*