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Twins Healthy at 107
John and Eli Phipps “ Just lived Naturally and Kept it Up”
Hennessy, OK, May 9. — Wonders the West might show them gave Eli and John Phipps material for dreams in 1820 the 17-year-old twin boys moved from Virginia to Indiana with their father and mother. But Ell says now that neither he nor John dreamed of living in the lands as Oklahoma or Iowa almost a century later.
The Phipps twins were born in 1803. Next February they will be 108 years old. Eli now lives in Hennessy. He says he never has been ill enough to need a physician. John lives in Shenandoah, IA and, according to Eli, his health is so good he doesn't appreciate it.
In 1853 the mother of the twins died at their home in Indiana at the age of 93. The family moved to Putnam County, Missouri, where Jesse Phipps, the father died of smallpox at 110.
Eli married Rebecca Griffith in Maryville. Mo., and came to Oklahoma sixteen years ago. John moved to Iowa.
Until last fall Eli worked a farm four miles southwest of Hennessy. Now he has moved into town and says he means to rest all the rest of his life.
Transcribed & submitted by Dawn Minard
Kansas City Star, (Date 1910-05-10)
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