102 YEARS OLD.
RECOLLECTION OP LATE QUEES VICTOKIA AS A PRIKCESS. \ Two days after tho celebration of his 0110 hundred and second birthday the death took place of Sir. Jeremiah Martin Siimiioi'ids, of Hound Hill ' Crescent, Brighton,. England. Mr. Simmonds died in his .sleep, with his wife sitting by his side. Mrs. ,Simmonds is eighty-six, and the couple celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding only a few weeks previously. Mr. Simmonds received a telegram frow the King congratulating him on tho a.t. tainmeut of his one hundred and iseobnd birthday. Until the beginning of this year he retained' his faculties to a remarkable degree,'reading the newspapej without sped acle's and taking the keenest interest in current events. Ho conld remember running out ol school at Lewes and cheoriug with tho other boys' for the victory of Waterloo* He saw Napoleon's coach, wliich was cap. hired after that battle, driven through: Lewes on its way lo Ijondon, and he vrua ona of the musicians at a ball where danced the young Princess who after.wards became Queen Victoria. Mr. Simmonds had a tall in January and it is believed that this hastened hia death.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 811, 7 May 1910, Page 9
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193102 YEARS OLD. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 811, 7 May 1910, Page 9
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