CENTENARIAN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1372, 24 February 1912, Page 4

CENTENARIAN.

London has lost nnothcr of ito centenarians—Mrs. Ann (Surah) Cohen, who died at tils' advanced ago of JO.', and was buried last mouth at Edmonton.She hnd lived in her house in tho Broadway, Westminster, almost in the shadow of the Abliey, for no fewer than CO years. .Mrs. Cohen, who was a great aunt of Sir lfufu.s Isaacs, was born in tho parish of St. Andrew, llolborn, on July Ti, ISO'.), and was married three weeks before Queen Victoria's Coronation. She hud a vivid recollectioi of tho Coronation of William IV, and the fair in Hyde Park that followed it, and she obtained a glinipso of Queen Victoria on her Coronation Day. Her husband, who died in 181)2, was a Westminster guardian, and had the distinction of being tho first Jewish churchwarden and overseer in England. Ho was n leader of public life in Westminster, and there is a bust of him iu Westminster City Hall. .Mrs. Cohen attributed her long life to fresh' air and cold water. On her 100 th birthday sho said, "I always sit by the open window, and I sleep with my bedroom window wido open. Fresh air and cold water are the greatest aids to health and long life I know of, and 1 recommend them to all young people." Sho had 14 children and 21 grandchildren.