| Notes: | The Bury and Norwich Post
Wednesday, 27 Feb 1833, Page 3
On Friday last, at Winfarthing, in the 102d year of her age, Sarah, the widow of Francis Jessup ; mother of five sons and eleven daughters, most of whom are still living, the eldest son being 80 years of age ; and the progenitor of three hundred and forty -one grand-children and great grand-children. During twenty-eight of the last thirty years of her life, she was the walking post between Winfarthing and Diss, performing the distance of ten miles in the day, four times a week, in all weather, until within 18 months of her decease. On one occasion, about two years ago, when she arrived at the Diss office in the midst of snow and sleet, with her clothes frozen to her back, Mr. Williams, the postmaster, inquired why she did not remain at home on such a day. The reply of the old centenarian was curious - “When she sat over the fire, her bones ache.” Her husband, to whom she was married in the reign of George the Second, died about 30 years ago. She was very faithful to all her employers, executed all their commissions with the greatest care, and her veracity was unimpeachable. |
