A colored woman, named Dolly, belonging to the estate of Richard Wilder, of Camden county, N.C., died on the 24th ult., at the age of 120 years! She survived her husband some three or four years, who was 119 at the time of his death! They lived together as man and wife nearly ninety years.
Source: “Aged Negroes.” Scientific American 3 Oct. 1846: 15. Making of America. Cornell University. Web. <http://digital.library.cornell.edu/s/scia/>
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