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The West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser Thursday 20 Jan 1870
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TUCKINGMILL.
LONGEVITY. - Mr. John ROUGH, undertaker, of Tuckingmill, has since Christmas-day made coffins for four persons, whose ages averaged 90¼ years.
TUCKINGMILL WESLEYAN INSTITUTE. - On Friday last an interesting lecture was delivered in the Institute by Capt. J. TONKIN, of Pool, on “Abraham.” The lecturer very much pleased the audience, and received at the close a unanimous vote of thanks. The chair was taken by the president of the institution, Mr. Thomas WILLOUGHBY.
A CENTENARIAN. - The remains of the late Mrs. Mary LEMIN, of Tuckingmill, were interred in the Roskear (district) churchyard, Camborne, on Saturday last. Mrs. LEMIN was born at Stithians in 1768, and would have been 102 years old on the 3rd of February next. Up to her 80th years she was engaged in the mines at Wendron as “account-house woman,” and she would have remained longer in her situation but for the abandonment of the mine where she was employed. Her intellect, sight, and hearing were almost perfect until within a day or two of her death, and often she would be requested by Mrs. PEARCE, her daughter, who herself was 72 years of age, and with whom the mother lived, to “thread her needle” for her. Mrs. LEMIN lived to see five generations.