An article on CNN's website about the gentleman who made it into the
Guiness Book of World Records had this to say:

                   He was an
                  infant when his family came in a covered wagon and
started a farm near the
                  town of Seiling.

                  They made part of their home a school and Holcomb
started classes at age 4.
                  Part of his longevity may have begun then, Ford said.
She said his mother
                  breast-fed him until the age of 5, a practice not
uncommon in pioneering days.

                  "I think that might be part of it. He would come home
from school and she had a
                  special little rocking chair. She would sit in it and
he would stand next to her to nurse."

The article can be accessed at
http://cnn.com/2000/US/05/30/life.oldest.reut/index.html

Jennifer Williams, BSN RN
San Diego

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