Marion Man Hits 100 Mile Stone; Plows Full Day
Nathaniel Dearman has been struck by lightening and bitten by a diamondback rattler. Many other things have happened to him during the years that he has hewn timber in Mississippi pine forests for driven a plow, but he has survived them all and this week is celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.
His snowy beard is virgin growth, no razor blade having ever been drawn across his face. he is still as hale as a stripling and needs no cane to walk by nor spectacles to read through. He is a Primitive Baptist and attends services regularly, although he often has to walk 11 miles to the place of worship.
Deaman was born a century ago at Handsboro, on Bayou Bernard in Harrison County. He moved five years later with his parents to Perry County and as a young man settled on what later became the town site of Lumberton.
Timber cutting and farming have occupied him through the decades.
His wife died some years ago and he has two children alive, one being Mrs. Charles Polk, of Oliver Creek, near here, with whom he resides at times.
Thanks to FAG contributor Janine McQuiston for newspaper article.
Nathaniel Dearman has been struck by lightening and bitten by a diamondback rattler. Many other things have happened to him during the years that he has hewn timber in Mississippi pine forests for driven a plow, but he has survived them all and this week is celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.
His snowy beard is virgin growth, no razor blade having ever been drawn across his face. he is still as hale as a stripling and needs no cane to walk by nor spectacles to read through. He is a Primitive Baptist and attends services regularly, although he often has to walk 11 miles to the place of worship.
Deaman was born a century ago at Handsboro, on Bayou Bernard in Harrison County. He moved five years later with his parents to Perry County and as a young man settled on what later became the town site of Lumberton.
Timber cutting and farming have occupied him through the decades.
His wife died some years ago and he has two children alive, one being Mrs. Charles Polk, of Oliver Creek, near here, with whom he resides at times.
Thanks to FAG contributor Janine McQuiston for newspaper article.
Marion Man Hits 100 Mile Stone; Plows Full Day
Nathaniel Dearman has been struck by lightening and bitten by a diamondback rattler. Many other things have happened to him during the years that he has hewn timber in Mississippi pine forests for driven a plow, but he has survived them all and this week is celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.
His snowy beard is virgin growth, no razor blade having ever been drawn across his face. he is still as hale as a stripling and needs no cane to walk by nor spectacles to read through. He is a Primitive Baptist and attends services regularly, although he often has to walk 11 miles to the place of worship.
Deaman was born a century ago at Handsboro, on Bayou Bernard in Harrison County. He moved five years later with his parents to Perry County and as a young man settled on what later became the town site of Lumberton.
Timber cutting and farming have occupied him through the decades.
His wife died some years ago and he has two children alive, one being Mrs. Charles Polk, of Oliver Creek, near here, with whom he resides at times.
Thanks to FAG contributor Janine McQuiston for newspaper article.
Nathaniel Dearman has been struck by lightening and bitten by a diamondback rattler. Many other things have happened to him during the years that he has hewn timber in Mississippi pine forests for driven a plow, but he has survived them all and this week is celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.
His snowy beard is virgin growth, no razor blade having ever been drawn across his face. he is still as hale as a stripling and needs no cane to walk by nor spectacles to read through. He is a Primitive Baptist and attends services regularly, although he often has to walk 11 miles to the place of worship.
Deaman was born a century ago at Handsboro, on Bayou Bernard in Harrison County. He moved five years later with his parents to Perry County and as a young man settled on what later became the town site of Lumberton.
Timber cutting and farming have occupied him through the decades.
His wife died some years ago and he has two children alive, one being Mrs. Charles Polk, of Oliver Creek, near here, with whom he resides at times.
Thanks to FAG contributor Janine McQuiston for newspaper article.
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