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FOND FATHER AT CENTURY MARK A father at 81 such is the recent record of Mr Jackson a northcountry farmer farmerMen Men more patriarchal still have figured in the ranks of fathers Such a robust veteran was Sir William Nicholson of Glenbervy a grand old Scots ¬ man who lived to nurse an infant daughter after he had passed his ninetysecond birthday Sir William then had a daughter alive of his first marriage aged GO He mainled his last wife when he was 82 and had six children childrenSir Sir Stephen Foxs last child was cradled when her father was within a few months of completing his hundredth year Sir Stephen was born in 1GU7 and had by his first wife a daughter who died in infancy in 1055 The child of his old age survived to the year 182S and was thus able to say I had a sister who was buried 173 years ago agoWhen When William Prest of Kipon was laid to rest in 17S9 at the age of 108 he was followed to his grave by his eldest son a veteran of 88 and by his youngest boy aged 15 who made his appearance when his father was within sight of his ninety third birthday and when his eldest brother was 72 72Thomas Thomas Beatty of Drunicondra near Dublin celebrated his one hundred and second birthday on tlie day on which his youngest born entered the world and when his eldest son had already seen 73 years yearsThomas Thomas Parr made his first trip to the altar at SO and became the father of two children and he was so full of vigor that he made a second matri ¬ monial venture fortytwo years later when his years numbered 122 Till Bits
