https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15715967/federick-messerhttps://www.themountaineer.com/news...30f25b2-a0e8-11ea-9436-9bd0886c2830.htmlA random man I found interesting who lived in the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s:
This is Frederick "Trapper" Messer, a North Carolina mountain man who lived to be 114 years old (1792–1907). Here’s his obituary, which gives a great glimpse into his life:
DIED AT AGE OF 114 YEARS.
Trapper Messer, Aged North Carolina Man, Succumbs to Death.
Charlotte, N.C., Feb. 21.—
Frederick Messer, the South's oldest citizen, famous as a hunter and trapper before civilization blazed a way across the Blue Ridge Mountains, is dead at his home in Haywood County at the age of 114 years, 6 months, and 5 days.
Messer was born Aug. 12, 1792, in Lincoln County. In early life, when western Carolina was an unexplored wilderness peopled by the Cherokees, he located in the mountains 21 miles from what is now Waynesville, the county seat of Haywood County. There, he pursued his wild vocation of hunting and trapping. He was hale and vigorous up to within a few months of his death, frequently walking to Waynesville to attend the county court and once every year, on his birthday, swimming the Pigeon River, which runs by his mountain home.
He married a woman of Wilmington, this state, who bore him nine children, and she lived to the age of 84. But only one child, now a woman 90 years old, survives him.
His age is established by authentic records.
He used tobacco and the corn whisky of the mountains in moderation all his life, and attributed his great longevity to his regular sleeping and waking hours, most of which were spent out doors.
