Washington County OR Archives News.....Peyton & Anna Wilkes are the oldest couple on the Pacific Coast 5-2-1888 May 2, 1888
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The Southern Star May 2, 1888
The Southern Star
Ozark, Dale County, Ala.
Wednesday, May 2, 1888
Page One

An Oregon Patriarch

The oldest married couple on the Pacific coast lives at Greenville, Washington
county, Oregon.  Peyton Wilkes was born in 1791, and so will be 97 years old
next May.  He is one of the few pensioners of the war of 1812.  His wife Anna
Wilkes is 91 years old, and they were married in 1815.  They came from the
plains in 1845 and settled in Washington county in 1846.  They were both born in
Bedford county, Virginia, came to Indiana in 1820 and to Missouri in 1839.  In
following the star of empire they kept ahead of the iron horse until he overtook
them at the “jumping off place.”  They have three sons living, twenty-seven
grandchildren, forty-one great grandchildren, and eighty great-great
grandchildren living. – Portland (Ore.) Dispatch


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