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- Although news articles and her headstone states she was 115, she was actually 106 when she died.
- 1804 sold land as Hannah Chris Dobson near Kingsborough to her brother, John Staley, then of Palatine. The transaction was recorded in 1815 and she was known as Hannah Chris Davis (In 1830 the same land was sold to Henry Staley from John Staley Jr and his wife Betsey).
- WOMAN, 115, HAD TWENTY CHILDREN
Married Fourth Time at Age of 80—Her Career Was Romantically Exciting.
In the Pierce cemetery, near Carthage, lies the body of a woman who died in 1862, aged 115 years. The inscription on the headstone states that she was the wife of four men and the mother of 20 children. Her maiden name was Hannah Susan Christiana Staley. She lived in Johnstown. She was married first to a man by the name of Shore, who was the father of 18 of her children, 15 sons and three daughters. Her second husband was named Dobson and by him she had one son. She later was married to a Mr. Davis, with whom she went to Jefferson County. She had one son by him. When 80 years of age this woman married Josiah Hurlburt. The genealogical committee of the LeRay de Chaumont chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in an effort to learn something of this woman who lived to so great an age, found a grandson, Josiah Elijah Davis, living at Barnes Corners. He is 85 years old. His grandmother, Hannah Hurlburt, spent the last years of her life with him and died at his home when he was 22 years of age and his eldest child was a baby. - Mr. Davis, whose mind and memory are unimpaired, tells many interesting stories of his grandmother’s romantically exciting life during and preceding the Revolutionary war. She was twice captured by the Indians and bore through life a scar left by a wound caused by a projecting knot against, which she ran when escaping through the forest. Mr. Davis remembers hearing her tell many times of having run bullets for the soldiers during the Revolution. After she had passed her 100th birthday she walked from Wilna to Lewisburg one day and returned the next day. After passing the century mark she cared lor a quarter of ah acre of potatoes. In speaking of her 17 sons and three daughters she used to say she wished she had had four more children and make it an even two dozen. Mrs. Hurlburt spent the last few years of her life in bed between two feather beds, winter and summer, and died without a diseased organ in her body from the infirmities of her advanced age. Her son by her third husband was named Elijah Josiah Davis. Her grandson is Josiah Elijah Davis and her great-grandson, now about 60 years old, is Elijah Josiah Davis. Her son by her second husband, Dobson, went to Jefferson County with her, but so far as is known, none of her children by the name of Shore ever came to that part of the county. She was the great-great-great grandmother of Mrs. Albert Harker of Carthage.
(The Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post, Au Sable Forks, NY. Thursday, October 21, 1926)
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1754 - 1862 (108 years)
