Jefferies Land a History of Swindon And Its Environs Edited With Notes By Gra
Jefferies Land a History of Swindon And Its Environs Edited With Notes By Gra
Jefferies Richard
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Ed. Weekes, died 1 82 1, aged Z^. Susan in 1820, also 83 years of age ; while John Weekes, died 1866, reached the truly patriarchal age of 92 years. The sum of the lives of these five persons — all of whom, let it be observed, have died in the nineteenth century, and therefore it cannot be supposed that the virtue of Swindon air was better in the olden times than now — the sum amounts to 433 years ! Eighty and six years was the average age of this remarkable family. Nor are they single examples... of the remarkable longevity attained by the inhabitants of Swin- don. A lady of the name of Read (deceased during the present year) was, if we remember rightly, 91 years of age. Her remains were £ 50 JEFFERIES' LAND Interred at Wroughton. Mr. Shepherd, still living [1867], is another example — his age is 90. Mr. J. Jefferies has reached his eighty- fourth year. On the whole, Swindon can furnish examples of longevity which may challenge, if not defy, competition. CHAPTER III SWINDON IN 1867 1 WHENEVER a man Imbued with re- publican politics and progressionist views, ascends the platform and delivers an oration, It Is a safe wager that he makes some allusion at least to Chicago, the famous mush- room city of the United States, which sprang up in a night, and thirty years ago consisted of a dozen miserable fishermen's huts, and now counts over two hundred thousand inhabitants.
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