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with his wife and four children. When he died at 27, the Washingtons adopted the two younger children.
Throughout a long life that saw battle with French and British soldiers as well as Indians, and an exposure to smallpox, Washington remained extremely healthy as well as unusually lucky in avoiding physical harm.
An Indian who shot at him from a distance of no more than 15 steps and somehow missed him returned to tell his tribe that the large man had magic powers.
At the age of 67, several years older than most men of his time could hope to live, Washington still rose at 4 a.m. and rode the distance around his large holdings every day about 15 miles.
Killed By Cure
What enemies, age and natural disasters could not do to this strong man was done by well-meaning friends. Historians speculate that it was the cure that may have Filled Washington rather than the disease.
We have a rather lengthy account of his death by Mr. Tobias Lear, Washington’s secretary, who was there throughout the day-long
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