‘Irish centenarian’ Nance Lee, who died in 1875, was remembered for transporting bread between Tipperary and Emly, travelling 16 miles a day for 40 years on foot
Tales from beyond the grave It’s been a while since I mentioned people in earlier times whose colourful life stories were revealed when their obituaries were published in local newspapers. So I am more than grateful to our regular correspondent Teresa Williams, from Middlesex, who has spent a good deal of her time searching through masses of newspaper archives to dig out some of these priceless snippets. She has acquired a wonderful collection of interesting accounts of famous and sometimes not-so famous people who led extraordinary lives in one way or another. Indeed, where else might you find a man with 27 children from three wives, a lady whose age at death was thought to be 108 but was actually 111 years old, or an aged gentleman who in later life slept in a dog kennel?!