A Remarkable Women.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 87, 31 January 1885, Page 5

A Remarkable Women.

Til ere has lately died at Benares mi old lady who wa^ in many respects one of the most remarkable personages in Northern India. This was Anna, widow of General Tames Kennedy, of tho Bengal Cavalry. She was in hoy ninety soventh year, having been born in 1787, amd rho lived to .see no fewer than 170 lineal descendants, of whom 128 survive her. She had eighteen children, eighty grandchildren, seventy-three greatgrandchildren, and fi/o great-great-grand-children. Her father, husband, two sons, onu son-in-law, and four grandsons have been gendrals in the army, and her clecondants include many military officers of lower rank. As a notice of her which has nppearcd in a leading Indian paper puts it, her life has f-el at detiaucoall well-establish-ed medical theories. She waa married at fifteen, had eighteen children, was never out of India for a siiv.lo day, spent all her days in tho plains, except once, when she paid a briof vi&ifc to the hill", the climate of which disagreed with her. Ilor husband died a quarter of a century ago, at the lipe age of eighty -two. after fifty livo years of married life. For nearly forty years r-he has been the centre of socioty at Benares, where fche has been as popular amongst the natives as amongst Europeans. She vias proud of her activity of mind and body, whibh remained unimpaired almost up to the last ; and it is paid of her that whenever the JSLihar.ijah of Benares, who was one of her intimate friends, paid her a visit she nevor failed to ofier him, on leaving, tho a^si^tance of her arm, though he was thirty years her junior. Truly a mother of men."