Triplets make the Guiness Book of World Records
By Jackie Perrone jacper@juno.com

The Jamison Triplets

The Jamison triplets are officially in the Guinness World Records. It's official: never before or since have triplets been born over

a 67- hour span. The Guinness

Book of World Records,

which comes out in 2009 will include their certification.

Christine Berdegues- - Jamison was born at 3:05 am on January 2, 1956 in Elgin, S.C. Her sister Catherine Jamison (now Able) followed at 10 am, January 3. And their brother Calvin arrived at 9:55 pm January 4.

"A midwife delivered us, at our home," said Christine. "She left, and the next day my mother knew something was going on. She called the midwife back, and Catherine was born. After that Dr. Cochran, a doctor in Elgin, was called in, and the next evening, Calvin arrived.

"Catherine and I were taken to the hospital in Camden because of low birth weight. We were each under five pounds. Calvin was over five pounds, so he stayed at home."

These sisters have enjoyed their fame and are now glad to be living close together. Christine spent 15 years in New York working at "DC 37," a clerical union, but decided home was where she really wanted to be, so she returned to the Midlands in 1998 and now works at UNUM in Columbia. She is divorced, and has no children, but claims the five children of her sister Catherine as her own also.

Catherine works at home as an alterations seamstress.

Their brother Calvin now lives in Kansas City Mo., with his wife and two children. He works as a truck driver.

They get together for holidays, and for their triple-birthday- party. The "girls" like to dress in matching outfits, and they look so much alike they have long since become used to people mistaking them for each other. At 6'5", Calvin towers over them.

"Our father was a saw mill worker in Elgin and also worked his farm. He worked us pretty hard, too," they said. They were the eighth, ninth, and tenth of Robert and Louise Jamison's 11 children.