Probably few people are aware that a centenarian lives within a few miles of Moncton. This most distinguished person is Martin SOMERS who passed the century mark last Christmas day, his birthday. Mr. Somers at present is living at Mrs. James ALEXANDER's, his granddaughters, about five miles from Moncton back of the McLaughlin road. Mr. Somers still retains his faculties with the exception of having recently lost the use of his limbs. ... Mr. Somers was born on the Salisbury Road about two miles above what was then called 'The Bend' of the Petitcodiac River, but better known now as the city of Moncton. He was born on a farm now owned and occupied by Job JONES, his birthday being Christmas in the year 1792. He has spent almost the whole of his life in the parish of Moncton. He was the youngest of the two sons of the family. He had eight sisters whose married names were Mrs. Chas. JONES, Mrs. Chas. TRITES, Mrs. Timothy HORSMAN, Mrs. James ANDERSON, Mrs. Stephen NICKERSON, Mrs. Anthony SIMPSON, Mrs. Andrew FARRELL and Mrs. Jacob TRITES. His father, who was a German, settled in this vicinity with several other families, married a daughter of Lancen LEWIS, deceased of Lewisville. Mr. Somers remembers 'The Bend' when it was in its infancy. He can remember when it contained just five families. These were Malcolm WILMOT, WATSON, BEATTY and HARPER. At the age of 21, Mr. Somers married a daughter of Abram TRITES and at the age of about 40, he removed from the Salisbury Road, then called the Post Road to the Mountains. The portions now known as Lutes and Indian Mountains contained but few settlers, the only residents being Timothy HORSMAN, William LUTES, Jeremiah LUTES and Squire CHAPMAN. Mr. Somers settled at Indian Mountain,taking up several hundred acres of land and part of the old homestead is now owned by his grandsons, Messrs. Melbourne SOMERS and Mortimore SOMERS, sons of Shepherd SOMERS. Gesner H. SOMERS, who runs a livery stable on lower Lutz Street, is also a grandson of Mr. Somers. Mr. Somers children consisted of six boys and three girls. His sons names were John SOMERS, Shepherd SOMERS, Lafayette SOMERS, Theodore SOMERS, Marvin SOMERS and Ornin SOMERS. Lafayette and Shepherd at present are living in Dakota. One of his daughters is the wife of Dickey STEEVES of Steeves Mountain. Some eight or nine years ago Mr. Somers made a trip to Dakota, spending some three years in that country. (see original)