AN ANCIENT HOOSIER
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Daniel Frederick. When War Over in 1788
Still on the March.
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Daniel Frederick, who lives on a farm four miles east of Vincennes, Ind., is one hundred years old.
He walks with a rustic cane and is not bowed with age. He steps with a surprising slacrity, and hears with a distinctness and answers with a promptness that is remarkable.
His face is not full, nor is the body burdoned with purpulency, but in every movement he manifested the wire and endurance of his physical organization.
His mind has always been clear and his life has been comparitively quiet and uneventful.
Indeed, he has been perfectly contented with the quiet life of a farmer, which perhaps accounts largely for his longevity. His short whiskers under his chin were quite gray if not white, but his hair is still nearly black and thick upon his head. It was no little astonishment to hear that he had never wore spectacles and that his eye-sight had never failed him. He said he never had what many people call their "second eye-sight".
His appetite is as good as it ever was and he sleeps as peacefully as a child.
His health has always been good except on two occasions, the last one of which was nineteen years ago, when he had what the physicians called a fever.
His father's name was Louis Frederick and his mother's name May Mary.
They came from Tennessee to this county when the indians still skulked through the country and killed unsuspecting farmers as they followed their plows.
He was born in Knox County October 10, 1788, the year Washington took the reigns of government under the present Constitution, therefore he has lived under every President this country has had since the beginning.
He was born and "raised" on the Louis Marchino place in Johnson township and has always lived in the country. "Youngsters now,"said he"don't know what hard work is. See, my young days, I worked hard, minded nobody's business but my own, and maintained my mother and grandmother with these hands for forty years. The best of farm laborers then only got $? per month, and in harvest time when extra pay was given we only got 50 cents a day. We used reap-hooks then and plowed with wooden mold-boards. We raised just as good corn than as now, but not so much of it. Corn then was 10 cents per bushel and potatoes the same."
Mr. Frederick had but few school advantages in those days, but he learned to read and write.
Last June, fifty-one years ago he was married to Miss Rhoda Farmer. She is the mother of sixteen children, six of whom were twins. Four of the twins are dead.
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Daniel Frederick. When War Over in 1788
Still on the March.
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Daniel Frederick, who lives on a farm four miles east of Vincennes, Ind., is one hundred years old.
He walks with a rustic cane and is not bowed with age. He steps with a surprising slacrity, and hears with a distinctness and answers with a promptness that is remarkable.
His face is not full, nor is the body burdoned with purpulency, but in every movement he manifested the wire and endurance of his physical organization.
His mind has always been clear and his life has been comparitively quiet and uneventful.
Indeed, he has been perfectly contented with the quiet life of a farmer, which perhaps accounts largely for his longevity. His short whiskers under his chin were quite gray if not white, but his hair is still nearly black and thick upon his head. It was no little astonishment to hear that he had never wore spectacles and that his eye-sight had never failed him. He said he never had what many people call their "second eye-sight".
His appetite is as good as it ever was and he sleeps as peacefully as a child.
His health has always been good except on two occasions, the last one of which was nineteen years ago, when he had what the physicians called a fever.
His father's name was Louis Frederick and his mother's name May Mary.
They came from Tennessee to this county when the indians still skulked through the country and killed unsuspecting farmers as they followed their plows.
He was born in Knox County October 10, 1788, the year Washington took the reigns of government under the present Constitution, therefore he has lived under every President this country has had since the beginning.
He was born and "raised" on the Louis Marchino place in Johnson township and has always lived in the country. "Youngsters now,"said he"don't know what hard work is. See, my young days, I worked hard, minded nobody's business but my own, and maintained my mother and grandmother with these hands for forty years. The best of farm laborers then only got $? per month, and in harvest time when extra pay was given we only got 50 cents a day. We used reap-hooks then and plowed with wooden mold-boards. We raised just as good corn than as now, but not so much of it. Corn then was 10 cents per bushel and potatoes the same."
Mr. Frederick had but few school advantages in those days, but he learned to read and write.
Last June, fifty-one years ago he was married to Miss Rhoda Farmer. She is the mother of sixteen children, six of whom were twins. Four of the twins are dead.
AN ANCIENT HOOSIER
__________
Daniel Frederick. When War Over in 1788
Still on the March.
__________
Daniel Frederick, who lives on a farm four miles east of Vincennes, Ind., is one hundred years old.
He walks with a rustic cane and is not bowed with age. He steps with a surprising slacrity, and hears with a distinctness and answers with a promptness that is remarkable.
His face is not full, nor is the body burdoned with purpulency, but in every movement he manifested the wire and endurance of his physical organization.
His mind has always been clear and his life has been comparitively quiet and uneventful.
Indeed, he has been perfectly contented with the quiet life of a farmer, which perhaps accounts largely for his longevity. His short whiskers under his chin were quite gray if not white, but his hair is still nearly black and thick upon his head. It was no little astonishment to hear that he had never wore spectacles and that his eye-sight had never failed him. He said he never had what many people call their "second eye-sight".
His appetite is as good as it ever was and he sleeps as peacefully as a child.
His health has always been good except on two occasions, the last one of which was nineteen years ago, when he had what the physicians called a fever.
His father's name was Louis Frederick and his mother's name May Mary.
They came from Tennessee to this county when the indians still skulked through the country and killed unsuspecting farmers as they followed their plows.
He was born in Knox County October 10, 1788, the year Washington took the reigns of government under the present Constitution, therefore he has lived under every President this country has had since the beginning.
He was born and "raised" on the Louis Marchino place in Johnson township and has always lived in the country. "Youngsters now,"said he"don't know what hard work is. See, my young days, I worked hard, minded nobody's business but my own, and maintained my mother and grandmother with these hands for forty years. The best of farm laborers then only got $? per month, and in harvest time when extra pay was given we only got 50 cents a day. We used reap-hooks then and plowed with wooden mold-boards. We raised just as good corn than as now, but not so much of it. Corn then was 10 cents per bushel and potatoes the same."
Mr. Frederick had but few school advantages in those days, but he learned to read and write.
Last June, fifty-one years ago he was married to Miss Rhoda Farmer. She is the mother of sixteen children, six of whom were twins. Four of the twins are dead.
__________
Daniel Frederick. When War Over in 1788
Still on the March.
__________
Daniel Frederick, who lives on a farm four miles east of Vincennes, Ind., is one hundred years old.
He walks with a rustic cane and is not bowed with age. He steps with a surprising slacrity, and hears with a distinctness and answers with a promptness that is remarkable.
His face is not full, nor is the body burdoned with purpulency, but in every movement he manifested the wire and endurance of his physical organization.
His mind has always been clear and his life has been comparitively quiet and uneventful.
Indeed, he has been perfectly contented with the quiet life of a farmer, which perhaps accounts largely for his longevity. His short whiskers under his chin were quite gray if not white, but his hair is still nearly black and thick upon his head. It was no little astonishment to hear that he had never wore spectacles and that his eye-sight had never failed him. He said he never had what many people call their "second eye-sight".
His appetite is as good as it ever was and he sleeps as peacefully as a child.
His health has always been good except on two occasions, the last one of which was nineteen years ago, when he had what the physicians called a fever.
His father's name was Louis Frederick and his mother's name May Mary.
They came from Tennessee to this county when the indians still skulked through the country and killed unsuspecting farmers as they followed their plows.
He was born in Knox County October 10, 1788, the year Washington took the reigns of government under the present Constitution, therefore he has lived under every President this country has had since the beginning.
He was born and "raised" on the Louis Marchino place in Johnson township and has always lived in the country. "Youngsters now,"said he"don't know what hard work is. See, my young days, I worked hard, minded nobody's business but my own, and maintained my mother and grandmother with these hands for forty years. The best of farm laborers then only got $? per month, and in harvest time when extra pay was given we only got 50 cents a day. We used reap-hooks then and plowed with wooden mold-boards. We raised just as good corn than as now, but not so much of it. Corn then was 10 cents per bushel and potatoes the same."
Mr. Frederick had but few school advantages in those days, but he learned to read and write.
Last June, fifty-one years ago he was married to Miss Rhoda Farmer. She is the mother of sixteen children, six of whom were twins. Four of the twins are dead.
