Henry County GaArchives News.....Col. Hiram Lester January 20 1888 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 December 7, 2004, 6:33 pm The Marion County Patriot The Marion County Patriot, No. 3 January 20, 1888 Page Two The McDonough Weekly says: Speaking of old people reminds us that our old fellow citizen, Col. Hiram Lester, whom time has handed down to us from the eighteenth century, is now 136 years of age. He was colonel on General Washington’s staff. Col. Lester is now hale and hearty, and can pace his three miles an hour, as easily as he did over a hundred years ago, while chasing Gen. Burgoyne at Brandywine. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/henry/newspapers/nw1853colhiram.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb