Racine County WI Archives Obituaries.....Crele, Joseph  April 27, 1866
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Bolivar Bulletin, March 31, 1866
Death of the Oldest Man - The Portage (Wis) Register chronicles the death at 
Caledonia, in that State, on the 27th ult., of Joseph CRELE, born in Detroit, 
Mich., in 1725, and who had attained therefor, the amazing age of one hundred 
and forty years! He was born seven years before George Washington, and was fifty 
years old at the outbreak of the American Revolution; so he might, even then, 
have claimed exemption from military service.  He was forty years old at the 
birth of Napoleon I.  He was sixty-two years old when the Federal Constitution 
was formed, and eighty-four when Abraham Lincoln was born.  We know but one 
longer life in modern times, that of Parr, the Englishman, who is recorded to 
have been born in 1482, and to have died in 1635, at the ripe age of 152.  
CRELE's baptism is said to be on record in the French Catholic Church in 
Detroit; so that his age would seem to be duly authenticated.

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