Wilkesboro Witness:  Mrs. HOLDMAN, widow of Wm. HOLDMAN, is now living in Watauga county, in her 112th year, and is in good health and able to walk about the house and yard.  Nearly as old as John BARNS, who lived and died in Caldwell county, N.C., in his 115th year.

Source: Raleigh News and Observer, 19 September 1880, page 2.