DEATHS
Lately at Bazzlebusk, in Dent, near Sedbergh, Margaret, wife of Alexander Nelson, at the advanced age of 91. She retained her faculties unimpaired till the last. It is worthy of remark that three brothers and three sisters of this family lately resided in the same house, whose united ages amounted to 500+ years.
Lately, in the same neighbourhood, Mary Morland and Ann Mason: the sum of their united ages is 182 years. These remarkable instances of longevity furnish a strong proof of the salubrity of the sequestered vale of Dent, and of the abstemious habits of its inhabitants.
Westmorland Gazette, Saturday, 19 Dec 1818, page 3
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