NEGRO AGED 111.
MABBIES A WOMAN OP SIXTY. Sandy Alexander, a negro who has attained the great age of 111, and who was a servant nt White House when Mr. Polk was President, on September 6 married Susie M'Ghee, a blushing bride of 60, at_ Helena, Arkansas. The age of the bridegroom is established by his own reCord and memory of people who knew him seventy years ago.as "Uncle Sandy," with three grown-up children. Alexander attributes his activity and health to moderate living, but he is neither a teetotaler nor a non-smoker. He recollects vividly the British troops arriving in Washington in 1812, and tho burning down of White House and tho Legislative buildings.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1577, 22 October 1912, Page 4
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114NEGRO AGED III. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1577, 22 October 1912, Page 4
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