A TASMANIAN CENTENARIAN
•" There lives at the Moat Farm, Garrick, a man named Samuel Cox, one of the most remarkable men m Tasmania, on account of his great age and vigor," says the " Launceston Examiner," "He aaya that he was born m the north of Wales on the 15th November, 1773. and if this is correct ha is now nearly 114 years of ago. He is remarkably strong considering his groat age, and two or three days a week walks a distance of three or four miles. He is a most Independent old fellow, and will not move from Carrick. Comfortable quarters have been provided for him, both at Launceston and Longford, but he will accept of neither, and prefers living at the Moat. Oox has never been a teetotaller, nor studied his health m the least, but he has never had an hour's sickness Some people doubt the correctness of his assertion about his age. but no one his yet been able to a»y how old he really 1« except himielf, and many people can reoolleot him knocking about for 60 years, and who say he was an old mas when they first knew him, and that he has altered very little since."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1610, 15 July 1887, Page 3
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204A TASMANIAN CENTENARIAN Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1610, 15 July 1887, Page 3
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