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Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser 29 Aug 1855
Page 5 Column 2

EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY. - A woman named Betty OATEN, died last week in the village of Pitminster, at the wonderful age of 108, which she had completed on the 7th of July last. Up to within a few months of her decease, although she had lost her sight, she was perfectly sensible, and was able to sing a song. She had been but once married, and had one son and seven daughters, the eldest of whom is living, and is eighty years old, and the youngest is sixty-six. These eight have had forty-three children, and the offspring of the forty-three amount to one hundred and two, one of whom is married, and has three children. Thus the old woman lived to see her great great-grandchildren, and her family has afforded an instance of five co-existent generations, numbering one hundred and fifty-seven person, as far as we can ascertain, although we believe they are still more numerous

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<NOTES: Betty OATEN is Elizabeth or Betty SEYMOUR, married George OATEN>