She had been a widow for twenty years, and had ceased to menstruate nearly ten years before.

In St.Peter's Church, in East Oxford, is a monument bearing an inscription recording the death in child-birth of a woman sixty-two years old.

Cachot relates the case of a woman of fifty-three, who was delivered of a living child by means of the forceps, and a year after bore a second child without instrumental interference.

She had no milk in her breasts at the time and no signs of secretion.

This aged mother had been married at fifty-two, five years after the cessation of her menstruation, and her husband was a young man, only twenty-four years old.
Kennedy reports a delivery at sixty-two years, and the Cincinnati Enquirer, January, 1863, says: "Dr.W.McCarthy was in attendance on a lady of sixty-nine years, on Thursday night last, who gave birth to a fine boy.