---- Rectory, Hereford.
_Longevity_ (Vol. vii., pp. 358. 504. 607.).--May I be permitted a word
with your correspondent A. I., and at the same time assist MR. HUGHES in
his laudable attempt "to convert him to the faith?" To do this, it will not
be necessary for me to search either in annual or parish registers, or to
decipher half-defaced inscriptions on marble monuments or humble
headstones.
A lady is now living, or was two months ago, in Williamsburg, State of
South Carolina, by the name of Singleton, who is known to be in the _one
hundred and thirty-first year of her age_:
"Her mental faculties are still unimpaired, and she retains all her
senses except that of sight, of which she was deprived at the advanced
age of ninety-nine years by an attack of the measles. Her bodily energy
exhibits no diminution for many years, she being still able to walk
briskly about the room. She has outlived all her children: her oldest
descendant living being a granddaughter, over sixty years old. The
first granddaughter of this granddaughter, if now living, would be over
sixteen years of age."