THE picture shown in this connection is taken from the photograph of Sister Susan Bright, who is probably the oldest Sabbath-keeper in the world. Sister Bright was born near Richmond, Va., Aug. 15, 1789, the year of the adoption of the American Constitution, and but nine years after the darkening of the sun and moon, the first great sign of the approaching second advent. Sister Bright was forty-four years old when the falling stars were seen in 1833. The facts here given are furnished by her daughter-in-law. Sister Bright’s husband was a soldier in the War of 1812. They moved from Virginia to Rushville, Ind., on horseback, in 1830, where they were living when the stars fell. About the year 1838 they moved to Brown County, Ind.
MRS. SUSAN BRIGHT, AGED 112 YEARS
Here her husband died, in 1861, at the age of seventy-two years. From Indiana Sister Bright with her children moved to Iowa, in the fall of Lincoln’s re-election, and later moved to Norton County, Kan., by wagon, the journey requiring eighteen days. Afterward the family moved to Hitchcock County, Neb.; and in 1896 the aged mother, then one hundred and six years old, traveled alone by train to Topeka, Kan.
Sister Bright was baptized and joined the United Brethren Church at the age of forty-two. Two years after coming to Topeka, at the age of one hundred and eight, she united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, of which she is still a member. She is the mother of six children, only one of whom is now living. Her youngest child died about a year ago, aged sixty-eight. Sister Bright has been very temperate throughout her life; has never borrowed trouble; has used no intoxicants nor tobacco, and very little tea or coffee. To-day, at the age of one hundred and twelve, she still retains the use of her faculties to a good degree.
