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- Purported grandfather of Samuel Stafford.
May 18, 1854
B: ABOUT 1748
A PATRIARCH--Died on Monday, the 1st May inst., at Poherea, near Kilnaleck, in this county, Mr. John STAFFORD,B:ABT 1748 aged one hundred and six years and four months. The venerable old man enjoyed the full benefit of all his faculties up to two months before his decease, and he had well nigh completed his 106th year before he ceased to read the public papers. A long life had he; strange events were they which occurred between his birth and death; England triumphing in her Wolfes in Canada, and mortified in her Corwallises in the States; England pitted against France for Russia, and England joined with France against Russia; Ireland a nation in '82, and Ireland a province in 1800. Monarch succeeded to monarch--one form of government to another-- and he was a witness of all; he survived the succession and survived the change. Ample opportunities had he of learning wisdom, and he learned real wisdom; for there was not one who knew him by whom he was not respected, there was no one who came within the reach of his power to whom he did not extend his benevolence; sure that is real wisdom which teaches us to be useful and makes us to be respected
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Abt 1748 - 1854 (~ 106 years)
