GREATSURVIVORS

GREAT SURVIVORS OF ELMSTED

Name	Buried	Age	Remarks
Henry Hedgecock	1734	93	Henry was a Parish Clerk
Sir William Honywood	1748	94	Dedication on floor of St James church
John Horton	1752	over 100	See note below
Catherine Cloke	1794	95	Nee Lushington married Daniel in 1722
Anne Cox	1813	97
Mary Hopkins	1831	95
Ann Hopkins	1835	90
John Fisher	1845	92
Ann Dixon	1847	94
Richard Sawkins	1862	92
Stephen Cobb	1863	90
Annie Church	1865	92	Licensee of The George, Stone Street
Mary Sharp	1869	91
Maria Moon	1875	90
Comfort Kingsmill	1882	98	Farmed at Trinity Farm, Whatsole Street
Stephen Birch	1885	97
John Young	1896	93
Sarah Hopkins	1897	97
Sarah Gibbs	1899	92
Stephen Andrews	1906	91
George Argar	1907	92
Frances Ansdrew	1910	91
Harriett Sutton	1923	94
James Wright	1930	94
Walter Wetheral	1940	90	Walter was a Parish Clerk
Sophie Hopkins	1942	90	Of Whatsole Street
Emily Ansley	1946	92	Of Northleigh
Thomas Beer	1948	90
Richard Kingsmill	1955	91	Actually Richard Newport Kingsmill
Dorothy Miskin	1984	100	See note below
Joanna Forge	1991	99	Involved with the WI and parish council
Henry Wood	1992	93	Born at Wingham, farmed at Ittinge

John Horton "died aged over 100. He was in the procession at the coming in [1661] of Charles II and enjoyed good health 'till within one week of death". Kentish Post 21 March 1752.

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In World War I, Dorothy's first husband, Walter Fletcher, was a commander of a destroyer on the China Station. While there he contracted a dreadful disease and was invalided out and died in 1917. Dorothy married again to William Miskin of Great Chart and came to Bodsham in 1919. Dorothy's son Wyndham Fletcher, who still lives at Bodsham (Bodsham Lodge) with his wife Elizabeth, will be 91 on 5 August 2001.

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Elsie Knowles of Northleigh will be 96 on 19 September 2001 and Fanny Lilley of Bodsham will be 90 on 26 December 2001

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