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Positively the Oldest

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 22, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 12.

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Positively the Oldest.

“The oldest living person” is believed to be Esther Groom, colored, of Caldwell County, Ky. Octogenarians thereabouts say that “Aunt” Esther was an old woman when they were children. She is believed to be not less than one hundred and twenty years old, is perfectly helpless, her flesh shrunken to her bones, and her skin all wrinkled and shriveled.