Herbert Hamrol was a survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and died in the Spring of 2009 at the age of 106. He was working as a stock clerk at Andronico's market in San Francisco up until a couple of weeks before his passing. He remembered being carried down stairs by his mother at the time of the earthquake.

Zachariah Blackistone taught my maternal grandfather to be a florist in Washington DC circa 1910, and was still running the business in the 1970s. When my grandfather died in 1955, Mr. Blackistone took the Greyhound or Trailways bus at age 85 from DC to Norfolk, VA for my grandfather's funeral. In the early 1970's, my uncle accompanied Mr. Blackistone at the age of 100 or 101 to a florist convention in Seattle, WA. Mr. Blackistone passed at the age of 111 in a nursing home - I don't know how long he had been there. He is at about #65 among men on longevity lists.