SEMI-WEEKLY INTERIOR JOURNAL, STANFORD, KY., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1897
Remarkable Family
Francis Abraham and Jestine Mallory came to this State from King William county, Virginia, when Indians constituted the greater part of the population and settled on the farm still occupied by the family. To them were born 11 children all of whom lived until the youngest was 45 years old. The wife was the first to die. Six in the family are living whose combined ages are 465 years making an average of 77 1/2 years. Five of them live in one house, all enjoying single blessedness. Five of the eight daughters married and their husbands were all house carpenters.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
Remarkable Family
Francis Abraham and Jestine Mallory came to this State from King William county, Virginia, when Indians constituted the greater part of the population and settled on the farm still occupied by the family. To them were born 11 children all of whom lived until the youngest was 45 years old. The wife was the first to die. Six in the family are living whose combined ages are 465 years making an average of 77 1/2 years. Five of them live in one house, all enjoying single blessedness. Five of the eight daughters married and their husbands were all house carpenters.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
SEMI-WEEKLY INTERIOR JOURNAL, STANFORD, KY., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1897
Remarkable Family
Francis Abraham and Jestine Mallory came to this State from King William county, Virginia, when Indians constituted the greater part of the population and settled on the farm still occupied by the family. To them were born 11 children all of whom lived until the youngest was 45 years old. The wife was the first to die. Six in the family are living whose combined ages are 465 years making an average of 77 1/2 years. Five of them live in one house, all enjoying single blessedness. Five of the eight daughters married and their husbands were all house carpenters.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
Remarkable Family
Francis Abraham and Jestine Mallory came to this State from King William county, Virginia, when Indians constituted the greater part of the population and settled on the farm still occupied by the family. To them were born 11 children all of whom lived until the youngest was 45 years old. The wife was the first to die. Six in the family are living whose combined ages are 465 years making an average of 77 1/2 years. Five of them live in one house, all enjoying single blessedness. Five of the eight daughters married and their husbands were all house carpenters.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
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Jestine
Abraham
Born
July 20, 1790
Died
Nov. 19, 1865
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