has any couple ever lived to have been maried for 100 years?
This is going to make me sound like a ninny, but I remember watching a Today Show when I was a younger lad with good ol’ Willard Scott who commented that a couple in Russia that were in their one hundred and teens celebrated their 100 wedding anniversary.
Course, I was a wee lad, then, and Willard could have said something like, “if her husband was still alive” and I could have repressed the memory making the partial quote remembered a bald-faced lie.
But, I thought I’d share this little trip down memory lane in the hopes of maybe… just maybe… getting some sort of confirmation or downright denial.
From this page:
MILTON BLACKSTONE of California had an article from February 22, 1928 sent to him by a cousin in Leeds about the death of his great great uncle Leib Feld in Lesko, Poland, aged 125.
The article said that Leib’s nephew, Solomon Blackstone, was going to Lesko from Leeds to help settle his affairs.
It also mentioned that he was survived by his 119-year-old widow, to whom he was married 100 years, and six children — the youngest being 80.
I’d check it myself, but the Good Book is holding up the couch right now. In there, I think you may find that Noah was married for well over 100 years. Then the flood came and covered the entire earth with water, and all fauna on earth were repopluated from a genetic sample of two. Ahem.