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{{Short description|People from the U.S.A. who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years}} |
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'''American [[supercentenarian|supercentenarians]]''' (Citizens of [[United States]] who have attained the age of at least 110 years) include: |
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'''American supercentenarians''' are citizens or residents of the [[United States]] who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. {{As of|January 2015}}, the [[Gerontology Research Group]] (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 782 American [[supercentenarian]]s.<ref name=GRG-G-2015/>{{Needs update|date=December 2023}} As of {{date|2=MDY}}, it lists the oldest living American-born person as Spanish emigrant [[Maria Branyas]] (born in [[San Francisco, California]], on March 4, 1907), aged {{age in years and days|1907|03|04}}. The oldest American resident is listed as [[Elizabeth Francis]] (born in [[Houston|Houston, Texas]], on July 25, 1909), aged {{ayd | July 25, 1909}}.<ref name=WSRL/> The longest-lived person ever from the United States is [[Sarah Knauss]], of [[Hollywood, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania]], who died on December 30, 1999, aged 119 years and 97 days.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/584685.stm|title=World's oldest person misses millennium|work=[[BBC News]]|date=December 31, 1999|access-date=November 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Frassinelli|first=Mike|url=http://grg.org/knauss119.htm|title=Mrs. Sarah Knauss, the World's Oldest Person, Turns 119|newspaper=[[The Morning Call]]|date=September 25, 1999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227005447/http://www.grg.org/knauss119.htm|url-status=live|archive-date=December 27, 2007}}</ref> |
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== 100 oldest known Americans == |
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== Summary table == |
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Below is a list of the 100 longest lived American supercentenarians according to the GRG and reliable sourcing.<ref name=GRG-G-2015/><ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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The order of people in the main list is by date of birth. The table below summarizes the people listed on this page, providing name, birth year, age and an indicator of whether or not the person is living. Age claims may be disputed, but this is not indicated in the summary table. |
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! Name !! Birth Year !! Age !! Living or Deceased |
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| Martha Graham || 1844 || 114 || Deceased |
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| Mae Harrington || 1889 || 113 || Deceased |
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! scope="col" | Name |
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! scope="col" | Sex |
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! scope="col" data-sort-type="date" | Birth date |
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! scope="col" data-sort-type="date" | Death date |
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! scope="col" | Age |
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! scope="col" | Birthplace |
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! scope="col" | Place of death <br/> or residence |
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| {{0}}1 |
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| Fannie Thomas || 1867 || 113 || Deceased |
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| data-sort-value="Knauss" | [[Sarah Knauss]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| Fannie Thomas || 1867 || 113 || Deceased |
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| September 24, 1880 |
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| December 30, 1999 |
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| Mary McKinney || 1873 || 113 || Deceased |
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| {{ayd | September 24, 1880 | December 30, 1999}} |
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| [[Pennsylvania]] |
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| Carrie C. White || c.1874 || 116 || Deceased |
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| Pennsylvania |
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| Joe Thomas || 1875 || c.111 || Deceased |
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| style="background:#f9f9f9;" | {{0}}2 |
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| data-sort-value="Branyas" | [[Maria Branyas]]<ref name=WSRL/> |
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| Wilhelmina Kott || 1879/1880 || c.115 || Deceased |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| March 4, 1907 |
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| Mary Bidwell || 1881 || 114 || Deceased |
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| {{ayd | March 4, 1907}} |
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| Clara Huhn || 1887 || 113 || Deceased |
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| [[California]] |
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| [[Spain]] |
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| Elena Slough || 1889 || c.114 || Deceased |
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| {{0}}3 |
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| data-sort-value="Welford" | Delphia Welford<ref name=GRG-2023/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| September 9, 1875 |
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| November 14, 1992 |
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| {{ayd | September 9, 1875 | November 14, 1992}} |
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| [[Mississippi]] |
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| [[Tennessee]] |
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| {{0}}4 |
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| data-sort-value="Jones, Susannah" | [[Susannah Mushatt Jones]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| July 6, 1899 |
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| May 12, 2016 |
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| {{ayd | July 6, 1899 | May 12, 2016}} |
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| [[Alabama]] |
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| [[New York (state)|New York]] |
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| {{0}}5 |
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| data-sort-value="Weaver" | Gertrude Weaver<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| July 4, 1898 |
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| April 6, 2015 |
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| nowrap | {{ayd | July 4, 1898 | April 6, 2015}} |
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| [[Arkansas]] |
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| Arkansas |
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| {{0}}6 |
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| data-sort-value="Bolden" | [[Elizabeth Bolden]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| August 15, 1890 |
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| December 11, 2006 |
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| {{ayd | August 15, 1890 | December 11, 2006}} |
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| Tennessee |
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| Tennessee |
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| {{0}}7 |
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| data-sort-value="Cooper" | [[Besse Cooper]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| August 26, 1896 |
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| December 4, 2012 |
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| {{ayd | August 26, 1896 | December 4, 2012}} |
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| Tennessee |
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| [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] |
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| {{0}}8 |
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| data-sort-value="Talley" | [[Jeralean Talley]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| May 23, 1899 |
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| June 17, 2015 |
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| {{ayd | May 23, 1899 | June 17, 2015}} |
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| Georgia |
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| [[Michigan]] |
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| {{0}}9 |
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| Bettie Wilson || 1890 || 115 || Deceased |
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| data-sort-value="Ceccarelli" | [[Edith Ceccarelli]]<ref name=2024-Deaths/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| Grace Thaxton || 1891 || 114 || Deceased |
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| February 5, 1908 |
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| February 22, 2024<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/edie-ceccarelli-willits-resident-and-oldest-living-american-dies-two-week/?gallery=7e411f74-ab6e-433a-b847-84c4a05e2685 |title=Edie Ceccarelli, Willits resident and oldest living American, dies two weeks after 116th birthday |first=Chris |last=Smith |publisher=[[The Press Democrat]] |date=February 22, 2024 |access-date=February 23, 2024}}</ref> |
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| Grace Nelsen Jones || 1893 || 112 || Deceased |
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| {{ayd | February 5, 1908 | February 22, 2024}} |
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| California |
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| Flossie Page || 1893 || 112 || Deceased |
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| California |
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| Marion Higgins || 1893 || 112 || Deceased |
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| data-sort-value="Barnes" | [[#Maggie Barnes|Maggie Barnes]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/>{{efn|May have been older (116 or even 117); possibly born in 1881 or even 1880}} |
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| Gertrude Baines || 1894 || >113 || Living |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| March 6, 1882 |
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| Elizabeth Stefan || 1895 || >112 || Living |
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| January 19, 1998 |
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| {{ayd | March 6, 1882 | January 19, 1998}} |
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| Delvina Dahlheimer || 1888 || 113 || Deceased |
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| [[North Carolina]] |
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| North Carolina |
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| 11 |
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| data-sort-value="Manfredini" | Dina Manfredini<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| April 4, 1897 |
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| December 17, 2012 |
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| {{ayd | April 4, 1897 | December 17, 2012}} |
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| [[Italy]] |
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| [[Iowa]] |
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| 12 |
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| data-sort-value="Mortensen" | [[Christian Mortensen]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|M}} |
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| August 16, 1882 |
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| April 25, 1998 |
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| {{ayd | August 16, 1882 | April 25, 1998}} |
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| [[Denmark]] |
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| California |
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| 13 |
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| data-sort-value="Ford" | Hester Ford<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| August 15, 1905 |
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| April 17, 2021<ref>{{cite news |last1=Korynta |first1=Emma |last2=Mendis |first2=Tanya |url=https://www.wcnc.com/article/features/producers-picks/hester-ford-dies-at-116/275-fec0a906-3788-4199-b3d8-11d85f73bd03 |title=She was a pillar {{!}} Hester Ford, oldest living American, has died at 116 |date=April 17, 2021 |access-date=April 17, 2021 |publisher=[[WCNC-TV]]}}</ref> |
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| {{ayd | August 15, 1905 | April 17, 2021}} |
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| [[South Carolina]] |
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| North Carolina |
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| 14 |
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| data-sort-value="Parker" | [[Edna Parker]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| April 20, 1893 |
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| November 26, 2008 |
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| {{ayd | April 20, 1893 | November 26, 2008}} |
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| [[Indiana]] |
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| Indiana |
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| 15 |
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| data-sort-value="Skeete" | Margaret Skeete<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| October 27, 1878 |
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| May 7, 1994 |
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| {{ayd | October 27, 1878 | May 7, 1994}} |
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| [[Texas]] |
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| [[Virginia]] |
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| 16 |
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| data-sort-value="Madigan" | Bernice Madigan<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| July 24, 1899 |
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| January 3, 2015 |
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| {{ayd | July 24, 1899 | January 3, 2015}} |
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| [[Massachusetts]] |
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| Massachusetts |
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| 17 |
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| data-sort-value="Baines" | Gertrude Baines<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| April 6, 1894 |
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| September 11, 2009 |
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| {{ayd | April 6, 1894 | September 11, 2009}} |
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| Georgia |
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| California |
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| 18 |
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| data-sort-value="Wilson" | [[#Bettie Wilson|Bettie Wilson]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| September 13, 1890 |
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| February 13, 2006 |
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| {{ayd | September 13, 1890 | February 13, 2006}} |
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| Mississippi |
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| Mississippi |
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| 19 |
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| data-sort-value="Westman" | Iris Westman<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| August 28, 1905 |
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| January 3, 2021<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iversonkassianfuneralservices.com/obituary/Iris-Westman|title=Obituary for Iris Westman|website=Iverson – Kassian Funeral Services}}</ref> |
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| {{ayd | August 28, 1905 | January 3, 2021}} |
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| [[North Dakota]] |
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| North Dakota |
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| 20 |
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| data-sort-value="Gaudette" | [[Marie-Josephine Gaudette]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| March 25, 1902 |
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| July 13, 2017 |
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| {{ayd | March 25, 1902 | July 13, 2017}} |
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| [[New Hampshire]] |
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| Italy |
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| data-sort-value="Gibson, Susie" | Susie Gibson<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| October 31, 1890 |
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| February 16, 2006 |
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| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | October 31, 1890 | February 16, 2006}} |
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| Mississippi |
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| Alabama |
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| data-sort-value="Sutcliffe" | Thelma Sutcliffe<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| October 1, 1906 |
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| January 17, 2022<ref>{{Cite news|last=Conley|first=Alia|date=January 20, 2022|title=Omaha woman who was oldest living person in U.S. has died at 115|work=[[Omaha World-Herald]]|url=https://omaha.com/news/local/omaha-woman-who-was-oldest-living-person-in-u-s-has-died-at-115/article_bbcf726c-7a23-11ec-9bda-4fa92ab64e20.html|access-date=January 20, 2022}}</ref> |
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| [[Nebraska]] |
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| Nebraska |
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| 23 |
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| data-sort-value="Kern" | Edna Kern<ref name=GRG-2023/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| October 14, 1900 |
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| January 20, 2016 |
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| {{ayd | October 14, 1900 | January 20, 2016}} |
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| California |
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| [[Nevada]] |
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| 24 |
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| data-sort-value="Holtz" | Augusta Holtz<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| August 3, 1871 |
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| October 21, 1986 |
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| {{ayd | August 3, 1871 | October 21, 1986}} |
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| [[Prussia]]{{efn|Holtz was born in the [[Province of Posen]], which was a part of the [[German Empire]] at the time of her birth. Today, this area is a part of [[Poland]].}} |
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| [[Missouri]] |
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| 25 |
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| data-sort-value="Hendricks" | Bessie Hendricks<ref name=2023-Deaths/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| November 7, 1907 |
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| January 3, 2023<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/2023/01/04/bessie-hendricks-death-obituary-oldest-person-america-united-states-iowa/69778962007/|title=Iowan Bessie Hendricks, America's oldest person, dies at 115 in Lake City|last=Block|first=Francesca|publisher=[[The Des Moines Register]]|date=4 January 2023|access-date=4 January 2023}}</ref> |
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| {{ayd | November 7, 1907 | January 3, 2023}} |
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| Iowa |
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| Iowa |
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| 26 |
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| data-sort-value="Wiggins" | Easter Wiggins<ref name=GRG-2020/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| June 1, 1875 |
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| July 7, 1990 |
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| {{ayd | June 1, 1875 | July 7, 1990}} |
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| Mississippi |
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| Mississippi |
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| 27 |
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| data-sort-value="Farris" | Maud Farris-Luse<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lq1.wpengine.com/supercentenarians/maud-farris-luse/ |title=Maud Farris-Luse |publisher=LongeviQuest |date=August 27, 2023 |access-date=August 27, 2023}}</ref> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| February 21, 1887 |
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| March 18, 2002 |
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| {{ayd | February 21, 1887 | March 18, 2002}} |
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| Michigan |
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| Michigan |
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| 28 |
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| data-sort-value="Rivera" | Antonia Gerena Rivera<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| May 19, 1900 |
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| June 2, 2015 |
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| {{ayd | May 19, 1900 | June 2, 2015}} |
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| [[Puerto Rico]]{{efn|Residents of Puerto Rico born on or after April 25, 1898, are United States citizens.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Levinson |first1=Sanford |last2=Sparrow |first2=Bartholomew H. |title=The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion: 1803–1898 |location=New York |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |year=2005 |pages=166 and 178 |quote=U.S. citizenship was extended to residents of Puerto Rico by virtue of the Jones Act, chap. 190, 39 Stat. 951 (1971)(codified at 48 U.S.C. § 731 (1987)) }}</ref>}} |
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| [[Florida]] |
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| 29 |
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| data-sort-value="Bidwell" | [[#Mary Bidwell|Mary Bidwell]]<ref name=Bidwell>{{cite web |url=https://lq1.wpengine.com/supercentenarians/mary-bidwell/ |title=Mary Bidwell |publisher=LongeviQuest |date=August 27, 2023 |access-date=August 27, 2023}}</ref> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| May 9, 1881 |
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| April 25, 1996 |
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| {{ayd | May 9, 1881 | April 25, 1996}} |
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| [[Connecticut]] |
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| Connecticut |
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| data-sort-value="Plummer" | Hazel Plummer<ref name=2023-Deaths/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| June 19, 1908 |
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| May 25, 2023<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.littletonma.org/home/news/hazel-plummer-1908-2023|title=Hazel Plummer 1908 – 2023|website=Littleton MA|date=May 25, 2023|access-date=May 27, 2023}}</ref> |
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| {{ayd | June 19, 1908 | May 25, 2023}} |
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| Massachusetts |
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| Massachusetts |
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| data-sort-value="Burks" | Ophelia Burks<ref name=GRG-Historical/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| October 25, 1903 |
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| September 27, 2018 |
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| {{ayd | October 25, 1903 | September 27, 2018}} |
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| [[Louisiana]] |
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| Louisiana |
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|- style="background:#9f9;" |
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| data-sort-value="Francis" | [[Elizabeth Francis]]<ref name=WSRL/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| July 25, 1909 |
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| Living |
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| {{ayd | July 25, 1909}} |
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| Louisiana |
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| Texas |
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| 33 |
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| data-sort-value="Ray" | Mary Josephine Ray<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| May 17, 1895 |
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| March 7, 2010 |
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| {{ayd | May 17, 1895 | March 7, 2010}} |
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| [[Canada]] |
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| New Hampshire |
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| 34 |
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| data-sort-value="Steinberg" | Goldie Steinberg<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| October 30, 1900 |
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| August 16, 2015 |
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| {{ayd | October 30, 1900 | August 16, 2015}} |
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| [[Moldova]]{{efn|Steinberg was born in [[Chișinău|Kishinev]], which had then been a part of the [[Russian Empire]]. It is now the capital of Moldova.}} |
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| New York |
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| 35 |
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| data-sort-value="Gibson, Delphine" | Delphine Gibson<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| August 17, 1903 |
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| May 9, 2018 |
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| {{ayd | August 17, 1903 | May 9, 2018}} |
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| South Carolina |
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| Pennsylvania |
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| 36 |
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| data-sort-value="Royster" | Mary Royster<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lq1.wpengine.com/supercentenarians/mary-royster/ |title=Mary Royster |publisher=LongeviQuest |date=March 28, 2024 |access-date=March 30, 2024}}</ref> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| April 15, 1875 |
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| December 28, 1989 |
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| {{ayd | April 15, 1875 | December 28, 1989}} |
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| Virginia |
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| North Carolina |
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| 37 |
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| data-sort-value="Morris" | Neva Morris<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| August 3, 1895 |
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| April 6, 2010 |
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| {{ayd | August 3, 1895 | April 6, 2010}} |
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| Iowa |
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| Iowa |
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| 38 |
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| data-sort-value="Cobb" | Blanche Cobb<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| September 8, 1900 |
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| May 1, 2015 |
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| {{ayd | September 8, 1900 | May 1, 2015}} |
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| Georgia |
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| Florida |
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| data-sort-value="Mangold" | Mila Mangold<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| November 14, 1907 |
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| July 2, 2022<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ktvu.com/news/bay-area-woman-who-was-the-oldest-living-in-california-dies-at-age-114|title=Bay Area woman who was the oldest living in California dies at age 114|first=Sharon|last=Song|publisher=[[KTVU]]|date=July 12, 2022|access-date=July 13, 2022}}</ref> |
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| {{ayd | November 14, 1907 | July 2, 2022}} |
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| Nebraska |
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| California |
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| 40 |
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| data-sort-value="Dorsey" | Myrtle Dorsey<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lq1.wpengine.com/supercentenarians/myrtle-dorsey/ |title=Myrtle Dorsey |publisher=LongeviQuest |date=August 27, 2023 |access-date=August 27, 2023}}</ref> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| November 20, 1885 |
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| June 25, 2000 |
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| {{ayd | November 20, 1885 | June 25, 2000}} |
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| [[Ohio]] |
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| Ohio |
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| 41 |
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| data-sort-value="Lazenby" | Carrie Lazenby<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lq1.wpengine.com/supercentenarians/carrie-lazenby/ |title=Carrie Lazenby |publisher=LongeviQuest |date=September 22, 2023 |access-date=December 18, 2023}}</ref> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| February 9, 1882 |
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| September 4, 1996 |
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| {{ayd | February 9, 1882 | September 4, 1996}} |
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| Georgia |
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| [[Illinois]] |
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|- |
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| 42 |
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| data-sort-value="Breuning" | [[Walter Breuning]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|M}} |
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| September 21, 1896 |
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| April 14, 2011 |
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| {{ayd | September 21, 1896 | April 14, 2011}} |
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| [[Minnesota]] |
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| [[Montana]] |
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|- |
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| 43 |
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| data-sort-value="Sanborn" | Eunice Sanborn<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| July 20, 1896 |
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| January 31, 2011 |
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| {{ayd | July 20, 1896 | January 31, 2011}} |
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| Louisiana |
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| Texas |
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|- |
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| 44 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Clawson" | Grace Clawson<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| November 15, 1887 |
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| May 28, 2002 |
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| {{ayd | November 15, 1887 | May 28, 2002}} |
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| [[United Kingdom]] |
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| New York |
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|- |
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| rowspan=2 | 45 |
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| data-sort-value="Kott" | Wilhelmina Kott<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| March 7, 1880 |
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| September 6, 1994 |
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| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | March 7, 1880 | September 6, 1994}} |
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| Illinois |
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| Illinois |
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|- |
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| data-sort-value="Domingues" | Adelina Domingues<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| February 19, 1888 |
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| August 21, 2002 |
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| [[Cape Verde]]{{efn|Domingues was born in Cape Verde, which was at that time a [[Colonial Cape Verde|Portuguese colony]]. Now it is an independent country.}} |
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| California |
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|- |
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| 47 |
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| data-sort-value="Mirigian" | Lucy Mirigian<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| August 15, 1906 |
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| February 12, 2021 |
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| {{ayd | August 15, 1906 | February 12, 2021}} |
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| [[Armenia]]{{efn|Mirigian was born in Armenia, then part of the [[Ottoman Empire]].}} |
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| California |
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|- |
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| 48 |
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| data-sort-value="Benkner" | [[#Charlotte Benkner|Charlotte Benkner]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| November 16, 1889 |
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| May 14, 2004 |
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| {{ayd | November 16, 1889 | May 14, 2004}} |
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| [[Germany]] |
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| Ohio |
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|- |
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| 49 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Greene" | Ettie Mae Greene<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lq1.wpengine.com/supercentenarians/ettie-mae-greene/ |title=Ettie Mae Greene |publisher=LongeviQuest |date=August 29, 2023 |access-date=August 29, 2023}}</ref> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| September 19, 1877 |
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| February 26, 1992 |
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| {{ayd | September 19, 1877 | February 26, 1992}} |
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| [[West Virginia]] |
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| West Virginia |
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|- |
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| 50 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Velasco" | Dominga Velasco<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| May 12, 1901 |
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| October 11, 2015 |
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| {{ayd | May 12, 1901 | October 11, 2015}} |
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| [[Mexico]] |
|||
| California |
|||
|- |
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| 51 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Frank" | Irene Frank<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| October 1, 1881 |
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| February 28, 1996 |
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| {{ayd | October 1, 1881 | February 28, 1996}} |
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| Texas |
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| Missouri |
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|- |
|||
| 52 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Jordan" | Georgia Ella Jordan<ref name=GRG-2024/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
|||
| September 18, 1880 |
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| February 9, 1995 |
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| {{ayd | September 18, 1880 | February 9, 1995}} |
|||
| Georgia |
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| Virginia |
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|- |
|||
| rowspan=2 | 53 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Thomas, Olivia" | Olivia Patricia Thomas<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| June 29, 1895 |
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| November 16, 2009 |
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| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | June 29, 1895 | November 16, 2009}} |
|||
| Iowa |
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| New York |
|||
|- |
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| data-sort-value="Murphy" | Alelia Murphy<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| July 6, 1905 |
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| November 23, 2019 |
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| North Carolina |
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| New York |
|||
|- |
|||
| 55 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Dunham" | Irene Dunham<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| December 16, 1907 |
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| May 1, 2022<ref>{{Cite news|last=Greco|first=Rachel|date=May 2, 2022|title=Irene Dunham, the last surviving student of Bath School bombing, Michigan's oldest resident, has died|work=[[Lansing State Journal]]|url=https://eu.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/05/02/lansings-irene-dunham-michigans-oldest-resident-dies-age-114/9613036002/|access-date=May 2, 2022}}</ref> |
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| {{ayd | December 16, 1907 | May 1, 2022}} |
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| Michigan |
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| Michigan |
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|- |
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| rowspan=2 | 56 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Willis" | Nina Willis<ref name=2023-Deaths/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| January 14, 1909 |
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| May 17, 2023<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/donald-trimble-mortuary/nina-frazier-willis-obituary |title=Obituary for Nina Frazier Willis |publisher=Donald Trimble Mortuary |access-date=May 21, 2023}}</ref> |
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| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | January 14, 1909 | May 17, 2023}} |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|- |
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| data-sort-value="Berg" | [[Pearl Berg]]<ref name=2024-Deaths/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| October 1, 1909 |
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| February 1, 2024<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-05/9th-oldest-person-in-the-world-pearl-berg-dies-at-114 |title=Pearl Berg, 9th oldest person in the world, dies in L.A. at 114 |first=Karen |last=Garcia |publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=February 5, 2024 |access-date=February 5, 2024}}</ref> |
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| Indiana |
|||
| California |
|||
|- |
|||
| 58 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Henderson" | Anna Henderson<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
|||
| March 5, 1900 |
|||
| July 1, 2014 |
|||
| {{ayd | March 5, 1900 | July 1, 2014}} |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
|- |
|||
| rowspan=3 | 59 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Johnston" | [[#Emma Verona Johnston|Emma Verona Johnston]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| {{center|F}} |
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| August 6, 1890 |
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| December 1, 2004 |
|||
| rowspan=3 | {{ayd | August 6, 1890 | December 1, 2004}} |
|||
| Iowa |
|||
| Ohio |
|||
|- |
|||
| data-sort-value="Rearden" | Mamie Rearden<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| September 7, 1898 |
|||
| January 2, 2013 |
|||
| South Carolina |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|- |
|||
| data-sort-value="Zahn" | Erna Zahn<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| April 14, 1908 |
|||
| August 9, 2022<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mvfh.org/obituary/erna-zahn|title=Obituary {{!}} Erna A. Zahn of New Ulm, Minnesota|publisher=Minnesota Valley Funeral Home|date=August 9, 2022|access-date=August 12, 2022}}</ref> |
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| [[Wisconsin]] |
|||
| Minnesota |
|||
|- |
|||
| rowspan=2 | 62 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Chatmon" | Bettie Chatmon<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| April 30, 1884 |
|||
| August 16, 1998 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | April 30, 1884 | August 16, 1998}} |
|||
| Louisiana |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|- |
|||
| data-sort-value="Brown" | Lessie Brown<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| September 22, 1904 |
|||
| January 8, 2019 |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
| Ohio |
|||
|- |
|||
| 64 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Matthews" | Odie Matthews<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| December 28, 1878 |
|||
| April 14, 1993 |
|||
| {{ayd | December 28, 1878 | April 14, 1993}} |
|||
| Texas |
|||
| [[Arizona]] |
|||
|- |
|||
| rowspan=2 | 65 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Knapp" | Florence Knapp<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| October 10, 1873 |
|||
| January 11, 1988 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | October 10, 1873 | January 11, 1988}} |
|||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
|- |
|||
| data-sort-value="Slough" | Elena Slough<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| July 4, 1889 |
|||
| October 5, 2003 |
|||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
| [[New Jersey]] |
|||
|- |
|||
| 67 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Boone" | Mary Anna Boone<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| February 10, 1887 |
|||
| May 13, 2001 |
|||
| {{ayd | February 10, 1887 | May 13, 2001}} |
|||
| [[Kentucky]] |
|||
| Kentucky |
|||
|- |
|||
| 68 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Whicker" | Minnie Whicker<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| July 24, 1906 |
|||
| October 22, 2020 |
|||
| {{ayd | July 24, 1906 | October 22, 2020}} |
|||
| Arkansas |
|||
| California |
|||
|- |
|||
| 69 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Kollar" | Delma Kollar<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| October 31, 1897 |
|||
| January 24, 2012 |
|||
| {{ayd | October 31, 1897 | January 24, 2012}} |
|||
| [[Kansas]] |
|||
| [[Oregon]] |
|||
|- |
|||
| 70 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Jones, Ila" | Ila Jones<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| August 21, 1903 |
|||
| November 10, 2017 |
|||
| {{ayd | August 21, 1903 | November 10, 2017}} |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|- |
|||
| 71 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Renfro" | Maggie Renfro<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| November 14, 1895 |
|||
| January 22, 2010 |
|||
| {{ayd | November 14, 1895 | January 22, 2010}} |
|||
| Louisiana |
|||
| Louisiana |
|||
|- |
|||
| rowspan=2 | 72 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Tillman" | [[Emma Tillman]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| November 22, 1892 |
|||
| January 28, 2007 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | November 22, 1892 | January 28, 2007}} |
|||
| North Carolina |
|||
| Connecticut |
|||
|- |
|||
| data-sort-value="Stoehr" | [[Anna Stoehr]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| October 15, 1900 |
|||
| December 21, 2014 |
|||
| Iowa |
|||
| Minnesota |
|||
|- |
|||
| 74 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Denmark" | [[Leila Denmark]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| February 1, 1898 |
|||
| April 1, 2012 |
|||
| {{ayd | February 1, 1898 | April 1, 2012}} |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|- |
|||
| 75 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Dunlap" | Adele Dunlap<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| December 12, 1902 |
|||
| February 5, 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/oldest-american-adele-dunlap-dies/|title=Oldest American, New Jersey native Adele Dunlap, dies at age 114|website=CBS New York|date=February 9, 2017}}</ref> |
|||
| {{ayd | December 12, 1902 | February 5, 2017}} |
|||
| New Jersey |
|||
| New Jersey |
|||
|- |
|||
| rowspan=2 | 76 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Conner" | Naomi Conner<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| August 30, 1899 |
|||
| October 18, 2013 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | August 30, 1899 | October 18, 2013}} |
|||
| Texas |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|- |
|||
| data-sort-value="Holland" | Ora Holland<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| December 24, 1900 |
|||
| February 11, 2015 |
|||
| Missouri |
|||
| [[Oklahoma]] |
|||
|- |
|||
| 78 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Hatton" | Katie Hatton<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lq1.wpengine.com/supercentenarians/katie-hatton/ |title=Katie Hatton |publisher=LongeviQuest |date=November 10, 2023 |access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref> |
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| {{center|F}} |
|||
| December 18, 1877 |
|||
| January 24, 1992 |
|||
| {{ayd | December 18, 1877 | January 24, 1992}} |
|||
| Texas |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|- |
|||
| 79 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Goodwill" | Ellen Goodwill<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| February 2, 1907 |
|||
| March 2, 2021<ref>{{cite news |last=Buckley |first=Nick |url=https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2021/03/05/battle-creeks-ellen-goodwill-michigans-oldest-resident-dies-114/4592493001/ |title=Battle Creek's Ellen Goodwill, Michigan's oldest resident, dies at 114 |date=March 5, 2021 |access-date=March 7, 2021 |work=Battle Creek Enquirer}}</ref> |
|||
| {{ayd | February 2, 1907 | March 2, 2021}} |
|||
| Kentucky |
|||
| Michigan |
|||
|- |
|||
| 80 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Thaxton" | Grace Thaxton<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| June 18, 1891 |
|||
| July 6, 2005 |
|||
| {{ayd | June 18, 1891 | July 6, 2005}} |
|||
| New York |
|||
| Kentucky |
|||
|- |
|||
| 81 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Mexia" | Soledad Mexia<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| August 13, 1899 |
|||
| August 30, 2013 |
|||
| {{ayd | August 13, 1899 | August 30, 2013}} |
|||
| Mexico |
|||
| California |
|||
|- |
|||
| 82 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Ward" | Minnie Ward<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| November 19, 1885 |
|||
| December 2, 1999 |
|||
| {{ayd | November 19, 1885 | December 2, 1999}} |
|||
| Tennessee |
|||
| Massachusetts |
|||
|- |
|||
| 83 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Ewing" | Arbella Ewing<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| March 13, 1894 |
|||
| March 22, 2008 |
|||
| {{ayd | March 13, 1894 | March 22, 2008}} |
|||
| Texas |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|- |
|||
| 84 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Hagel" | Catherine Hagel<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| November 28, 1894 |
|||
| December 6, 2008 |
|||
| {{ayd | November 28, 1894 | December 6, 2008}} |
|||
| Minnesota |
|||
| Minnesota |
|||
|- |
|||
| 85 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Otis" | Emma Otis<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| October 22, 1901 |
|||
| October 25, 2015 |
|||
| {{ayd | October 22, 1901 | October 25, 2015}} |
|||
| [[Washington (state)|Washington]] |
|||
| Washington |
|||
|- |
|||
| 86 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Hale" | Fred H. Hale, Sr.<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|M}} |
|||
| December 1, 1890 |
|||
| November 19, 2004 |
|||
| {{ayd | December 1, 1890 | November 19, 2004}} |
|||
| [[Maine]] |
|||
| New York |
|||
|- |
|||
| rowspan=2 | 87 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Carpelan" | Miriam Carpelan<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| July 8, 1882 |
|||
| June 22, 1996 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | July 8, 1882 | June 22, 1996}} |
|||
| United Kingdom |
|||
| California |
|||
|- |
|||
| data-sort-value="Thompson" | [[Elsie Thompson]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| April 5, 1899 |
|||
| March 21, 2013 |
|||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
| Florida |
|||
|- |
|||
| 89 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Fry" | Bertha Fry<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| December 1, 1893 |
|||
| November 14, 2007 |
|||
| {{ayd | December 1, 1893 | November 14, 2007}} |
|||
| Indiana |
|||
| Indiana |
|||
|- |
|||
| 90 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Harrington" | Mae Harrington<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| January 20, 1889 |
|||
| December 29, 2002 |
|||
| {{ayd | January 20, 1889 | December 29, 2002}} |
|||
| New York |
|||
| New York |
|||
|- |
|||
| rowspan=2 | 91 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Thomas, Ellen" | Ellen Thomas<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lq1.wpengine.com/supercentenarians/ellen-thomas/ |title=Ellen Thomas |publisher=LongeviQuest |date=May 1, 2024 |access-date=May 3, 2024}}</ref> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| December 25, 1877 |
|||
| December 2, 1991 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | December 25, 1877 | December 2, 1991}} |
|||
| Tennessee |
|||
| Michigan |
|||
|- |
|||
| data-sort-value="Bailey" | Daisey Bailey<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| March 30, 1896 |
|||
| March 7, 2010 |
|||
| Tennessee |
|||
| Michigan |
|||
|- |
|||
| 93 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Mitchell" | Agatha Mitchell<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| March 26, 1887 |
|||
| February 25, 2001 |
|||
| {{ayd | March 26, 1887 | February 25, 2001}} |
|||
| Virginia |
|||
| Virginia |
|||
|- |
|||
| 94 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Michelson" | Goldie Michelson<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| August 8, 1902 |
|||
| July 8, 2016 |
|||
| {{ayd | August 8, 1902 | July 8, 2016}} |
|||
| [[Ukraine]]{{efn|Michelson was born in [[Kropyvnytskyi|Elizabethgrad]], which was then a part of the Russian Empire. It is now part of Ukraine.}} |
|||
| Massachusetts |
|||
|- |
|||
| 95 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Barwis" | Merle Barwis<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| December 23, 1900 |
|||
| November 22, 2014 |
|||
| {{ayd | December 23, 1900 | November 22, 2014}} |
|||
| Iowa |
|||
| Canada |
|||
|- |
|||
| rowspan=2 | 96 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Huhn" | Clara Huhn<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| January 28, 1887 |
|||
| December 20, 2000 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | January 28, 1887 | December 20, 2000}} |
|||
| Nebraska |
|||
| California |
|||
|- |
|||
| data-sort-value="Meloche" | Beulah Meloche<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| December 5, 1906 |
|||
| October 27, 2020 |
|||
| New York |
|||
| New York |
|||
|- |
|||
| rowspan=2 | 98 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Underwood" | Eliza Underwood<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lq1.wpengine.com/supercentenarians/eliza-underwood/ |title=Eliza Underwood |publisher=LongeviQuest |date=October 25, 2023 |access-date=October 25, 2023}}</ref> |
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| {{center|F}} |
|||
| March 15, 1867 |
|||
| January 27, 1981 |
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| data-sort-value="Taylor" | Corinne Dixon Taylor<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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| February 14, 2007 |
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| data-sort-value="Holblinger" | Annabelle Holblinger<ref name=2023-Deaths/> |
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| March 16, 1909 |
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| January 27, 2023<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scdemocratonline.com/stories/rosenberger-matriarch-passes-at-113-years-old,80143|title=Rosenberger matriarch passes at 113 years old|publisher=[[Sullivan County Democrat]]|date=January 31, 2023|access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> |
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| {{ayd | March 16, 1909 | January 27, 2023}} |
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== Biographies == |
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=== Martha Graham === |
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'''Martha Graham''' ([[December 27]], [[1844]] – [[June 25]], [[1959]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]] who became [[oldest people|the oldest recorded person ever]]. [[Guinness World Records]] recognizes her as being born into [[slavery]] in December 1844 in [[Virginia]], and to have died at [[list of the oldest people|age 114 years and 180 days]] in [[Fayetteville, North Carolina]].<ref name="MGrahamGRG1">{{cite web |
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| title = Compete Table of Supercentenarians Older Than 112 |
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| date = 2004-12-04 | accessdate = 2007-12-17 | publisher = [[Gerontology Research Group]] |
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| quote = ...and the American former slave Martha Graham both turned 112 in 1956 according to The Guinness Book of World Records, but in both cases the evidence presented is far from satisfactory. |
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}}</ref> Using this, an extrapolated birth date is [[December 27]], [[1844]]. Her original claimed year of birth, however, was 1840.{{Fact|date=December 2007}}{{Or|date=December 2007}} According to continuos Guinness books in the 1970s, she allegedly claimed to be "117 or 118," suggesting more than 1 year of birth. The 1900 census is the only census listing her as born in 1844 (aged 114). |
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=== Mary Bidwell === |
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'''Mary Electa Bidwell''' (May 9, 1881 – April 25, 1996)<ref name=Bidwell/> was an American [[supercentenarian]]. She died aged 114 years and 352 days and is the oldest person on record ever to die in [[Connecticut]].<ref name=nyt>{{cite news | last=Collins | first=Gail |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E1DC163DF93AA15751C1A960958260 |title=Life is Long |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=December 29, 1996 | access-date=December 9, 2007}}</ref><ref name="museum">{{cite news |url=http://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/Articles/mary_electa_bidwell.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724055848/http://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/Articles/mary_electa_bidwell.htm |title=Mary Electa Bidwell. Oldest person in the USA |archive-date=July 24, 2011 |publisher=Bidwell House Museum |year=1996 |access-date=December 9, 2007}}</ref><ref name=CNN>{{cite news |url=http://cgi.cnn.com/US/9512/oldest_american/ |title=Oldest person in the U.S. still teaching life lessons |publisher=CNN |year= 1996 |access-date=December 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020312233627/http://cgi.cnn.com/US/9512/oldest_american/ |archive-date=March 12, 2002 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> |
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|after1 = James Henry Brett, Jr. (disputed) |
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|title2 = [[Oldest people|Oldest Recognized Living Woman]] |
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Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel.<ref name="museum"/> She was a descendant of John Bidwell, one of the founders of [[Hartford, Connecticut]]. Bidwell worked as a teacher in a [[one-room school]]house for six years. She married Charles Hubbell Bidwell, a distant cousin, in 1906.<ref name=nyt/> Bidwell lived on her own in [[North Haven, Connecticut]], until she was 110. Bidwell died at the Arden House, a nursing home in [[Hamden, Connecticut]].<ref name=CNN/> |
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===Mae Harrington=== |
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'''Mae Maxwell Harrington''' ([[January 20]], [[1889]] – [[December 29]], [[2002]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]] who became [[U.S. state longevity recordholders|the oldest person in the history]] of the state of [[New York]], breaking the record held since the [[1920s]] by then [[oldest people|world's oldest person]] [[Delina Filkins]], also 113, but her own record was subsequently broken in 2005 by [[Grace Thaxton]], who was born in the state before moving to and dying in [[Kentucky]]. Because her age was not authenticated during her lifetime, the public recognition she was due went to another 113-year-old, [[Mary Parr]] ([[January 29]], [[1889]] – [[October 29]], [[2002]]), who was born nine days after her, dying two months before her, as her age was only validated [[posthumous]]ly.<ref>Jonas Kover. "Clinton woman's 'everyday' life ends at age 113 in nursing home". ''[[Observer-Dispatch]]''. [[January 1]], [[2003]]. Section A, Page 01.</ref> |
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=== Maggie Barnes === |
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'''Maggie Pauline Barnes''' (née '''Hinnant'''; March 6, 1882 – January 19, 1998)<ref>{{cite book | last=Jeune | first=Bernard | pages=298–299 | title=Supercentenarians (Demographic Research Monographs) | chapter=Jeanne Calment and her Successors. |editor-first=Heiner |editor-last=Maier | publisher=Springer |date=May 2010 | isbn=978-3-642-11519-6 | display-authors=etal}}</ref> was an American supercentenarian. She was born to a former slave and married a [[tenant farmer]]. Barnes died on January 19, 1998, in [[Johnston County, North Carolina]], of [[gangrene]].<ref name="RNOmb">Musante, Glenna B. (January 22, 1998) "Johnston woman, one of world's oldest, dies at 117" ''[[The Raleigh News & Observer]]''. Section: News; B1.</ref> |
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'''Fannie Thomas''' ([[April 24]]?, [[1867]] - [[January 22]], [[1981]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Hess |first=Beth B. |coauthors=Elizabeth Warren Markson |title=Growing Old in America |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=1991 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |location= |language= |isbn=0887388469 |pages=173 |chapter=Chapter 11 |chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Y_cqOCs1g5UC&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173&dq=%22fannie+thomas%22+oldest&source=web&ots=FlqnLDZQy5&sig=pkWKFRokUdEHI_jT2EIP55abh5g |quote= }}</ref> was listed in [[Guinness World Records]] as the oldest living [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]]. As the [[Shigechiyo Izumi]] case was later disputed, Thomas may in fact have been the [[oldest people|world's oldest person]] when she died at 113 years and 283? days.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} Her age was validated by a [[Social Security Administration|SSA]] study in 2002.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} However, the study put her birthdate as [[April 14]], [[1867]], making her ten days older than previously believed.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} |
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Her exact year of birth has been disputed. Though the year 1882 is written in her family bible, the 1900 US Census records her birth year as 1881 and her [[marriage license]] claims that she was born in 1880.<ref name="RNOmb"/> Authenticating to what was put on the family Bible, Barnes lived for 115 years and 319 days. |
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=== Adelina Domingues === |
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'''Adelina Domingues''' (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a [[Cape Verdean American]] [[supercentenarian]] who was the [[Oldest people|world's oldest person]] from the death of 114-year-old British-American woman Grace Clawson on May 28, 2002, to her own death less than three months later.<ref>{{cite web| last = Young| first = Robert D.| url = http://grg.org/Adams/CCCCC.HTM| title = GRG Table C (2012) World's Oldest Person Titleholders (since 1955)| publisher = Gerontology Research Group| date = September 17, 2012| access-date = January 1, 2013}}</ref> Domingues was born in [[Cape Verde]]. Domingues's [[Italian people|Italian]] father was a harbor pilot by profession, and her mother was [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] by ethnicity.<ref name=Domingues>[https://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/24/local/me-domingues24 Adelina Domingues, 114; Oldest Person in the U.S.] ''Los Angeles Times'', August 24, 2002.</ref> She married a [[Sea captain|ship captain]] in 1907, and moved to the [[United States]] that year.<ref name=Domingues/> Her husband died from [[cancer]] in 1950.<ref name=Domingues/> Domingues was a missionary from the [[Church of the Nazarene]] in [[Cape Verde]] and other parts of [[Africa]], and also a religious [[preacher]] when she lived in [[Massachusetts]], as well as an expert seamstress.<ref name=Domingues/> |
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'''Mary McKinney''' ([[May 30]], [[1873]] – [[February 2]], [[1987]]) was briefly recognized by Guinness as the world's oldest person. Following the death of fellow 113-year-old [[Mamie Eva Keith]] in September 1986, she became the "[[oldest people|world's oldest person]]" according to the Guinness Book of Records. However, her own death five months later in [[Sacramento, California]] meant that she never appeared in the record book, even though her Guinness recognition made the news. She lived for [[list of the oldest people|113 years and 248 days]]. |
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Domingues was a firm believer in the [[American Dream]], was deeply religious, had [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] political views and was a [[pen pal]] of former [[President of the United States]] [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref name=Domingues/> She had four children, but only one of them (a son, Frank) reached adulthood.<ref name=Domingues/> Frank died in 1998 at the age of 71, with Adelina outliving him by four years.<ref name=Domingues/> Domingues died at a nursing home in the [[San Diego]], [[California]], area on August 21, 2002, at age 114 years and 183 days.<ref name=Domingues/> She had claimed she was actually one year older, or 115 years old, but her family and Cape Verdean diplomats did some research and discovered her baptismal information, from which they concluded that Domingues was 114 years old when she died.<ref>{{citation|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UeAeAAAAIBAJ&pg=6039,2746662&dq=adelina-domingues&hl=en|title=Woman was oldest in U.S.|newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]|page=11|date=August 24, 2002|access-date=January 1, 2013}}</ref> |
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=== Charlotte Benkner === |
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'''Charlotte Benkner''' (née '''Enterlein'''; November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004)<ref name="toledoblade.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040517/NEWS08/405170361/-1/NEWS|title=North Lima woman dies at age 114|newspaper=[[Toledo Blade]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616043919/http://www.toledoblade.com/Deaths/2004/05/17/North-Lima-woman-dies-at-age-114.html|archive-date=June 16, 2012|access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="latimes">{{cite web|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2004/may/18/local/me-benkner18|title=Charlotte Benkner, 114; 2nd-Oldest Person in World Lived 'Steadily'|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=18 May 2004|access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Guinness2005">Guinness World Records 2005. [[Guinness World Records]] {{ISBN|978-0553588101}}</ref><ref name="cbsnews" /> was an American [[supercentenarian]] and considered the [[world's oldest person]] from 2003 to 2004.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3166758.stm |title=Oldest American dies age 114 |work=BBC News |date=October 6, 2003 |access-date=November 3, 2010}}</ref><ref name="toledoblade.com" /><ref name="latimes" /> Subsequent recognition of other supercentenarians ranked Benkner as the third oldest at the time of her death.<ref name="Guinness2005" /> |
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'''Florence Knapp''' ([[October 10]], [[1873]] - [[January 11]], [[1988]]) was, for the last two weeks of her life, recognized by the [[Guinness Book of World Records]] as the oldest person in the world. |
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Benkner was born in [[Leipzig]], Germany, and [[immigration to the United States|emigrated to the U.S.]] in 1896. She grew up in [[Peekskill, New York]], where her family ran the ''Albert Hotel'', and as a young woman once met then U.S. President [[Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref name="cbsnews" /><ref name="Bischoff 2005">{{cite web | last=Bischoff | first=Katrin | url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/frieda-mueller--der-aelteste-mensch-in-deutschland--ist-am-donnerstag-in-potsdam-gestorben-110-jahre--neun-monate-und-drei-tage-15753738 | title=Frieda Müller, der älteste Mensch in Deutschland, ist am Donnerstag in Potsdam gestorben: 110 Jahre, neun Monate und Drei Tage | newspaper=[[Berliner Zeitung]] | language=de | date=2005-07-23 | access-date=2018-02-18}}</ref> After her 1908 marriage to Karl Benkner, she moved west, living in [[Pennsylvania]] and [[Ohio]], before retiring to [[Arizona]]. Already a supercentenarian and the oldest person in Arizona, Benkner returned to Ohio to live in [[North Lima, Ohio|North Lima]] with her sister Tillie O'Hare, her youngest sibling.<ref name="cbsnews">{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/15/national/main583871.shtml|title=Oldest Person Ready To Turn 114|publisher=[[CBS News]]|date=}}</ref> Tillie died in January 2004, just three weeks shy of becoming a [[centenarian]].<ref name="Bischoff 2005"/> Benkner survived her sister by only four months, and died at age 114 years and 180 days, after a brief hospital stay in [[Youngstown, Ohio]]. |
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Born in [[Lansdale, Pennsylvania]], she lived in nearby Montgomery Square much of her life and came from a large and long-lived family, eight of her siblings dying in their 80s and 90s and one sister reaching 108. |
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=== Emma Verona Johnston === |
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By October [[1987]], when she was honored by the [[Pennsylvania]] legislature, she was recognized by Guinness as the oldest person in the [[United States]], and the death of [[Anna Eliza Williams]] that December made her oldest authenticated person in the world. Her death shortly thereafter meant that she never appeared in a Guinness Book as oldest living person. |
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'''Emma Verona Johnston''' (née '''Calhoun'''; August 6, 1890 – December 1, 2004) was an American [[supercentenarian]] who was born in [[Indianola, Iowa]], to a large family.<ref name="Johnston">{{cite news|last = Luther|first = Claudia|url = https://articles.latimes.com/2004/dec/03/local/me-johnston3|title = Emma Johnston, 114; Ohioan Was Oldest Living American|newspaper = [[Los Angeles Times]]|date = December 3, 2004|access-date = July 30, 2018}} Also available from the website of the [[Gerontology Research Group|GRG]] at [http://grg.org/EJohnston.htm OBITUARY: "Emma Johnston, 114; Ohioan Was Oldest Living American"]</ref> She graduated from [[Drake University]] in the Class of 1912 and went on to work as a [[Latin]] teacher before she married ophthalmologist Harry Johnston;<ref name = FromClass1912 /><ref>{{cite news|last = Hoven|first = Valerie|url = http://ddr.lib.drake.edu/digital/collection/du-vj/id/15/rec/1|title = Centenarian studied at Drake|work = Alumni News section of the Drake University publication "Update"|publisher = Drake University Digital Collections, Drake University Library|date = Spring 2004|access-date = July 30, 2018}}</ref><ref name = Honorary>{{cite web|last = Willey|first = John|url = http://ddr.lib.drake.edu/digital/collection/du-vj/id/19/rec/3|title = Honorary Degree Nomination|publisher = Drake University Digital Collections, Drake University Library|year = 2004|access-date = July 30, 2018}}</ref> at the time of her death, she was the university's oldest living graduate.<ref name = FromClass1912>{{cite web|url = http://www.lib.drake.edu/heritage/johnston/index.php|title = From the Class of 1912|work = The Drake Heritage Collections|publisher = Cowles Library at Drake University (lib.drake.edu)}}</ref> |
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At age 98, Johnston moved from Iowa to Ohio in order to live with her daughter and son-in-law. Even after turning 110, she continued to be in good health, alert and engaging in conversations, and was still able to walk up steps.<ref name="FromClass1912" /> She became the oldest known living American in May 2004.<ref name="Johnston" /> Three months later, on the occasion of her 114th birthday, she was presented with a proclamation signed by then Drake University President [[David Maxwell (academic)|David Maxwell]].<ref>{{cite news|url = http://ddr.lib.drake.edu/digital/collection/du-vj/id/13/rec/2|title = Drake celebrates alumna's 114th birthday|work = On Campus: Drake University's newsletter for Faculty and Staff|publisher = Drake University Digital Collections, Drake University Library|volume = 57|issue = 6|date = August 13, 2004|access-date = July 30, 2018}}</ref> The university's Vice President for Institutional Advancement, John Willey, nominated her for an honorary degree.<ref name = Honorary/> Johnston died in [[Worthington, Ohio]], on December 1, 2004,<ref name="Johnston" /> at age 114 years and 117 days. |
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Her death caused some confusion as to who her successor was, with Guinness recognition and press publicity alighting first on [[Orpha Nusbaum]] (August [[1875]] - March [[1988]]), who died before the 1989 edition's deadline, then [[Birdie May Vogt]] (August [[1876]] - July [[1989]]), who appeared in the 1989 edition's main text, then [[Jeanne Calment]], mentioned in the addenda section, and finally in November [[1988]] on [[Carrie C. White]], whose claim to birth in November [[1874]] was accepted. However, with recent census research calling White's authentication into question, Jeanne Calment may very well have been Florence Knapp's actual immediate successor. |
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=== Carrie C. White === |
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'''Carrie C. White''', born '''Carrie C. Joyner''' ([[November 18]], [[1874]]? – [[February 14]], [[1991]]), was recognized by the [[Guinness Book of World Records]] as the oldest person in the world around the time she celebrated her 114th birthday in [[1988]]. |
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A resident of a [[Palatka, Florida]] nursing home, she had been institutionalized since a nervous breakdown in 1909, about the time of her [[divorce]]. Her documentation was described as impeccable, but recent research has indicated she might in fact have been 21 rather than 35 when she was admitted, meaning she probably died at 102 (instead of 116). |
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If this is the case, [[Jeanne Calment]] became the world's oldest living person not when Carrie White died [[February 14]], [[1991]] (considered the [[United States]] [[longevity]] record until broken by [[Sarah Knauss]]), but immediately on the death of [[Florence Knapp]] in January 1988. However, the [[United States Census, 1900|1900 Census]] match could not be considered an unequivocal identification. |
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=== Joe Thomas === |
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'''Joe Thomas''' ([[May 1]], [[1875]] - [[December 14]], [[1986]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]] and the [[oldest people|oldest recognized living man]] from [[February 1986]] until his own death. He lived in [[Louisiana]]. Following his death, [[Herman Smith-Johannsen]] became the world's oldest living man. |
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(Note: this is a retroactive reconstruction of history. In reality, the Joe Thomas case was not verified until [[July 2002]] by the [[Social Security Administration|SSA]] study, and [[Guinness World Records|Guinness]] did not recuperate the "oldest living man" category until 2000). |
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===Wilhelmina Kott=== |
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'''Wilhelmina Kott''' ([[March 7]], [[1879]]/[[1880]] - [[September 6]], [[1994]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]] recognized by [[Guinness World Records]] as the '[[oldest people|oldest living American]]' in its 1995 edition, following the passing of [[Margaret Skeete]]. Born in [[Peru, Illinois]] as one of 16 children, she moved to [[Chicago]] in 1881, where she lived almost her entire life and subsequently died. |
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Her age was subject to a one-year discrepancy. Guinness recognized her as born in 1879 (based on the [[United States Census, 1900|1900 Census]]), but later research by the [[Social Security Administration|SSA]] study showed that she was listed as two months old in the [[United States Census, 1880|1880 Census]], making her age more probably 114, not 115. |
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=== Mary Bidwell === |
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'''Mary Electa Bidwell''' ([[May 9]], [[1881]] - [[April 25]], [[1996]]) <ref name=ssdi>[[Social Security Death Index]]; 040383799</ref>was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]]. She died at 114 years and 352 days, making her the 25th [[list of the oldest people|oldest person]] to ever live and the [[oldest people|oldest American living]] at the time of her death. She was also the oldest person ever to die in [[Connecticut]].<ref name=nyt1>{{cite news |
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| publisher = [[New York Times]] | work = Magazine |
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| date = 1996-12-29 | accessdate = 2007-12-17 |
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| quote = There are certain conventions to telling the oldest-living-American story. We feel compelled to note that Mary Bidwell, who died two weeks shy of her 115th birthday, had a weakness for coffee. ... Mrs. Bidwell's husband died at 93 in 1975; their only son had been dead since 1945. Mrs. Thompson outlived two husbands and several children. |
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| year = 1996 | accessdate = 2007-12-17 |
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| quote = According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mary Electa Bidwell, at 114, is the oldest person in the United States. Born in 1881, to Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel, Mary Bidwell's life spans the time from kerosene lamps to home computers, from horse and wagons to automobiles. |
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}}</ref><ref name=cnn/><ref>{{cite news |title=Mary Electa Bidwell |
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| url= http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/9631175.html?dids=9631175&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS&date=Apr+27%2C+1996&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&edition=&startpage=B6&desc=Mary+Electa+Bidwell |
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|quote=Mary Electa Bidwell, who in Nov 1995 was said to be the oldest living American woman, died Apr 25, 1996 at the age of 114. |
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|publisher=[[Washington Post]] |date=1996-04-27 |accessdate=2007-12-09 |
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|url= |quote=Mary Electa Bidwell, the oldest-living American, has died at 114. Mrs. Bidwell, born May 9, 1881, when James Garfield was president and Queen Victoria ruled half the world, died Thursday at a convalescent home in Hamden. Her grandson, William Bradford Bidwell, said she began to fail physically during the past two months. When the Guinness Book of Records recognized Mrs. Bidwell as the oldest-living American in November 1995, she said she did not have the answer to her ... |
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|publisher=[[Associated Press]] |date=1996-04-28 |accessdate=2007-12-09 |
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|quote=The Guinness Book of Records has recognized a Hamden woman as the oldest person in the United States. But 114-year-old Mary Electa Bidwell can't read about it yet because the 1996 edition already has gone to press. Bidwell was born on May 9, 1881, two months before President Garfield was shot. She isn't sure why she's lived so long, but she's proud of her achievement. ''I feel I must be very good indeed''. |
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|publisher=[[Boston Globe]] |date=1995-12-08 |accessdate=2007-12-09 |
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Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel. She was a descendant of John Bidwell, one of the founders of [[Hartford, Connecticut]]. Bidwell worked as a teacher in a one-room school house for six years. She married Charles Hubbell Bidwell, a distant cousin, in 1906. <ref name=nyt1/> |
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Bidwell lived on her own in [[North Haven, Connecticut]] until she was 110. Bidwell died at the [[Arden House]], a nursing home in [[Hamden, Connecticut]]. <ref name=ssdi/> <ref name=cnn>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Oldest person in the U.S. still teaching life lessons. |url=http://cgi.cnn.com/US/9512/oldest_american/ |quote= ... Mary Bidwell has a long memory because she has had a long life. At 114, she is the oldest person in the United States. ... The Guinness Book of Records verified Mrs. Bidwell's age too late to get her into the 1996 edition. ... Mary Bidwell's notoriety has sparked the interest of David Letterman, who wanted to fly her to New York to appear on his TV show. But she said she was not interested. |publisher=[[CNN]] |date= |accessdate=2007-12-09 }}</ref> She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1881. |
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=== Carrie Lazenby === |
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'''Carrie Lazenby''' ([[February 9]], [[1882]] - [[September 14]], [[1996]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]]. She died at 114 years and 218 days, making her the 32nd [[list of the oldest people|oldest person]] to ever live (tied with [[Japan]]ese woman [[Ura Koyama]]), the [[oldest people|fifteenth-oldest]] American person ever, and the sixth-oldest [[black people|black]] person. Lazenby is also still [[U.S. state longevity recordholders|the oldest person ever]] in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. |
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=== Clara Huhn === |
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'''Clara Herling Huhn''' ([[January 28]], [[1887]] – [[December 20]], [[2000]]) was an [[United States|American]] homemaker and [[supercentenarian]]. Born near [[Clarkson, Nebraska]], she lived near [[Schuyler, Nebraska|Schuyler]] for most of her life. She remained active, healthy and independent until the last few months of her life, and even answered an interview right before her 113th birthday. At [[list of the oldest people|age 113 years 327 days]], she is the [[oldest people|oldest person]] born in [[Nebraska]], but she was not the oldest to die in that particular state, since she died in [[La Mesa, California]]. That title belongs to [[Helen Stetter]], who died on [[June 1]], [[2007]] at age 113 years and 195 days.<ref>[http://www.nebpress.com/700/huhn.php Nebraska Press Association - 700 Famous Nebraskans - Clara Herling Huhn]</ref> |
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=== Elena Slough === |
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'''Elena Rodenbaugh Proctor Slough''' ([[July 4]], [[1889]] – [[October 5]], [[2003]])<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |title=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3166758.stm |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3166758.stm |work=BBC News |date=[[October 6]], [[2003]] |accessdate=2007-12-13}}</ref> was the oldest recognized person in the [[United States]] from the death of [[Mary Christian]] in [[April 2003]] until her own death that following October, six months later. After her death, the oldest recognized person in the United States was [[Charlotte Benkner]].<ref name="BBC" /> |
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Born in [[Horsham, Pennsylvania]], she married twice and had children by each marriage.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} Incidentally, her 90-year-old daughter died three days before her at the same [[Cape May, New Jersey]] nursing home.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} |
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Some sources date her birth to 1888, but the oldest records state that she was born in 1889.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oldest American dies in her sleep |url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2003/oct/06/oldest_american_dies/ |author=David Porter |work=[[Associated Press]] |publisher=Lawrence Journal |date=[[October 6]], [[2003]] |accessdate=2007-12-13 }}</ref> |
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=== Bettie Wilson === |
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'''Bettie Antry Wilson''' (née '''Rutherford'''; September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006)<ref name="Bettie Wilson">[http://grg.org/BWilson1.htm Bettie Wilson, 115; One of Three Oldest Americans] (LA Times)</ref> was the oldest resident of [[Mississippi]] ever recorded, and was considered the oldest living person in the United States from December 2004 until the subsequent verification of [[Elizabeth Bolden]].{{citation needed|date=May 2019}} Both were born in the rural South, where they lived less than 100 miles apart. Wilson was the daughter of freed slaves, Solomon and Delia Rutherford.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-10-15 |title=Did woman live to be 154? South's oldest-living people |url=https://www.al.com/living/2015/10/did_a_southern_woman_live_to_b.html |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=al |language=en}}</ref> |
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[[Image:BWilson.jpg|thumb|right|Mrs. Bettie Wilson]] |
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'''Bettie (Rutherford) Wilson''' ([[September 13]], [[1890]] – [[February 13]], [[2006]])<ref>[http://www.grg.org/BWilson1.htm Bettie Wilson, 115; One of Three Oldest Americans] (LA Times)</ref> became the oldest verified living person in the [[United States]] with the death of [[Emma Verona Johnston]] on [[December 1]], [[2004]]. She lost this designation when the age of [[Elizabeth Bolden]] was verified in [[April 2005]]. Both were born in the rural South—where they lived less than 100 miles apart. |
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In April 2005, Wilson moved into a new home funded by donations, in [[New Albany, Mississippi|New Albany]]. She celebrated her 115th birthday in September 2005, and died on February 13, 2006, aged 115 years, 153 days.<ref name="Bettie Wilson" /> |
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Born of freed slaves, she was the oldest resident of the state of [[Mississippi]] ever recorded (the previous record was 113 years 12 days set in 1994). Her oldest son, Will Rogers, was said to be born [[October 27]], [[1909]]—making him 96 years old himself at the time (the [[United States Census, 1930|1930 census]] lists him as 19 years old in April 1930). In late April 2005, Mrs. Wilson moved into a new home funded by donations. |
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=== George Francis === |
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Wilson celebrated her 115th birthday in September 2005, at which time she ranked as the third-oldest living person in the world. |
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'''George Rene Francis''' (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008)<ref name="georgefrancis">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-francis29-2008dec29-story.html |title=George Francis, oldest man in the United States, dies at 112 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=December 29, 2008 |access-date=September 12, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Jason |last=Dearen |url=http://www.sacbee.com/827/story/1503198.html |title=Oldest man in the US dies in Sacramento at 112 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130815204613/http://www.sacbee.com/827/story/1503198.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 15, 2013 |agency=Associated Press |work=The Sacramento Bee |quote=Francis died Saturday of congestive heart failure at a nursing home in Sacramento |location=Sacramento, CA |date=December 28, 2008 |access-date=November 3, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://grg.org/Adams/E.HTM |title=Recent Deaths for 2008 |access-date=November 3, 2010 |work=Gerontology Research Group |publisher=GRG Interactive |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126092018/http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM |archive-date=November 26, 2007 |df=mdy }}</ref> was an American supercentenarian and the joint second-oldest living man in the world, together with Englishman [[Henry Allingham]], also born on June 6, 1896, until Francis's death aged 112 years and 204 days. He was also the oldest living man in the United States, following the death of then 111-year-old [[Antonio Pierro]] on February 8, 2007. Francis was from [[New Orleans]], Louisiana, but after 1949 lived in [[Sacramento, California]], where a local newspaper published a poem that Francis enjoyed reciting to friends and the public throughout his life.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://spontaneousoverflow.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/GeorgeFrancisPOEM.source.prod_affiliate.4.pdf |title= The Black Man's Plea for Justice |newspaper= [[The Sacramento Bee]] |location= Sacramento, CA |date=August 2010 |access-date=November 3, 2010 }}</ref> He credited his longevity to nature, and enjoyed a rich diet of pork, eggs, milk and lard. He gave up smoking cigars at the age of 75.<ref name="Sacbee">{{cite web |last=Magagnini |first=Stephen |url=http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/204734.html |title=Life looks good at 110 – A witness to history from Jim Crow to Barack Obama – and a family treasure |work=sacbee.com |date=June 4, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607234415/http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/204734.html |archive-date=June 7, 2007 }}</ref> |
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Francis attempted to join the army in World War I, but was rejected for service in 1918 as being too short and small (he weighed only about {{convert|100|lb|disp=sqbr}}). Despite this, he later was a boxer before becoming a barber and then a chauffeur.<ref name="georgefrancis" /> |
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Wilson died at her [[New Albany, Mississippi|New Albany]] home on [[February 13]] [[2006]], aged 115 years 153 days. She is survived by a son, five grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, 95 great-great-grandchildren, and 38 great-great-great grandchildren. |
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===Bernice Madigan=== |
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'''Bernice Madigan''' (née '''Emerson'''; July 24, 1899 – January 3, 2015) was born in [[West Springfield, Massachusetts|West Springfield]], [[Massachusetts]],<ref name=GRG-Deceased/><ref name="Geographic">{{cite journal |last=Hoffmann |first=Fritz |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2014/07/22/fritz-hoffmann-wishes-bernice-madigan-a-happy-115th-birthday/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209123757/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2014/07/22/fritz-hoffmann-wishes-bernice-madigan-a-happy-115th-birthday/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 9, 2018 |title=Fritz Hoffmann Wishes Bernice Madigan a Happy 115th Birthday |journal=National Geographic |date=22 July 2014 |access-date=9 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="iberkshires.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.iberkshires.com/story/48218/Bernice-Madigan-State-s-Oldest-Citizen-Dies-at-115.html|title=Bernice Madigan, State's Oldest Citizen, Dies at 115|website=www.iberkshires.com|date=December 14, 2023 }}</ref> and moved to Cheshire when she was six.<ref name="Globe">{{cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/07/24/at_110_bay_states_oldest_resident_is_a_marvel_of_longevity/ |title=At 110, Bay State's oldest resident is a marvel of longevity |work=The Boston Globe |date=July 24, 2009 |access-date=December 8, 2012}}</ref> In 1918, after graduating from Adams High School,<ref name="Globe"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Shanks |first=Adam |url=https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/cheshire-woman-turns-115-worlds-fifth-oldest-person,366679 |title=Cheshire woman turns 115; world's fifth-oldest person |newspaper=[[Berkshire Eagle]] |date=24 July 2014 |access-date=9 December 2018}}</ref> she responded to government [[United States home front during World War I#Women|drives to recruit women into employment during WWI]], and moved to [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="Geographic"/> After the war, she worked as a secretary for the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Department of the Treasury]] and the [[Veterans Administration]].<ref name="Diebel">{{cite news |last=Diebel |first=Matthew |url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/05/inkster-woman-115-among-6-living-people-born-in-19th-century/15126761 |title=Inkster woman 115 among 6 living people born in 19th century |work=Detroit Free Press |date=5 September 2014 |access-date=9 December 2018}}</ref> She married Paul Madigan (d. 1976) in 1925;<ref name="Diebel"/> they lived in the Washington, D.C., area and then in Silver Spring, Maryland.<ref name="Globe"/> She retired in 1942, after which she volunteered with the church and at nursing homes, playing piano for residents.<ref name="Globe"/> She returned to live with family in Massachusetts in 2007.<ref name="Diebel"/> She participated in [[Boston University School of Medicine]]'s [[New England Centenarian Study]],<ref name="ABCBerkshires">{{cite news |url=http://www.iberkshires.com/blog/?bid=373 |title=ABC News Features Cheshire's Madigan |work=iBerkshires.com |access-date=9 December 2018 |date=30 June 2010}}</ref> and was interviewed and filmed by the Center for Aging at the [[University of Chicago]] and the [[ABC World News]].<ref name="ABCBerkshires"/> She is one of 100 centenarians in [[Archon X Prize|The Archon Genomics XPRIZE]].<ref name=XPRIZE>{{cite web |url=http://genomics.xprize.org/100-over-100/community/bernice-madigan |title=Bernice Madigan Centenarian Profile |work=Archon Genomics |access-date=December 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914062440/http://genomics.xprize.org/100-over-100/community/bernice-madigan |archive-date=September 14, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ansberry|first=Clare|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443890304578010513378135692|title=Contestants Race to Map DNA of 100 Centenarians|date=June 13, 2013|access-date=June 13, 2013|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref> She joined social media, with profiles on Facebook and Twitter.<ref name="Diebel"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Cain |first=Tim |url=https://herald-review.com/blogs/tim_cain/the-oldest-person-on-twitter/article_2a9d2a40-6d20-11e4-aa51-f7a91806ae4b.html |title=The oldest person on Twitter |work=Herald&Review |location=Decatur, Illinois |date=17 November 2014 |access-date=9 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="Metro">{{cite news |last=Rousseau |first=Morgan |url=https://www.metro.us/boston/bernice-emerson-madigan-oldest-mass-resident-dies-at-age-115/zsJoag---AyRqaJmwObAFI |title=Bernice Emerson Madigan, oldest Mass. resident, dies at age 115 |work=Metro USA |access-date=9 December 2018 |date=7 January 2015}}</ref> Madigan died in her sleep at the age of 115 years and 163 days at 2 a.m. on January 3, 2015.<ref name="iberkshires.com"/><ref name="Metro"/> At the time of her death, she was the oldest living resident of [[Massachusetts]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iberkshires.com/story/41827/Cheshire-Woman-16th-Oldest-In-The-World.html|title=Cheshire Woman 16th Oldest In The World|website=www.iberkshires.com|date=December 14, 2023 }}</ref> the fourth-oldest living person in the [[United States]]<ref name=3and4>{{cite web|url=https://www.iberkshires.com/story/44417/Cheshire-Woman-Is-Fourth-Oldest-in-the-World.html|title=Cheshire Woman Is Fourth Oldest in the World|website=www.iberkshires.com|date=December 14, 2023 }}</ref> and the world's fifth-oldest living person.<ref name=3and4/><ref>{{cite news |last=Buncombe |first=Andrew |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/secrets-of-longevity-meet-the-five-women-whose-lives-span-three-centuries-9996697.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/secrets-of-longevity-meet-the-five-women-whose-lives-span-three-centuries-9996697.html |archive-date=June 14, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Secrets of longevity: Meet the five women whose lives span three centuries |work=The Independent |publisher=Independent Digital News & Media |date=22 January 2015 |access-date=9 December 2018 |location=London, UK}}</ref> |
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'''Eva Chavka Rivka "Evelyn" Kozak''' (née '''Jacobson''') (August 14, 1899 – June 11, 2013)<ref name="GRG">{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/TableE.html |title=Validated Living Supercentenarians|date=August 29, 2018|accessdate=August 29, 2018}}</ref><ref name="YWN">{{cite web|url=http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/172435/Boro-Park%3A-Oldest-Jewish-Person-Dies-At-113-Years-Old%3B-Levaya-To-Be-Held-Today.html|title=Boro Park: Oldest Jewish Person Dies At 113 Years-Old; Levaya To Be Held Today|date=June 11, 2013|publisher=Yeshiva World News|accessdate=11 June 2013}}</ref> was an [[Americans|American]] [[Jews|Jewish]] [[supercentenarian]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jwire.com.au/news/australias-oldest-jew-passes-away/17989 |author= |title=Australia's Oldest Jew Passes Away |publisher=Jwire.com.au |date=August 2, 2011 |accessdate=April 13, 2013 |archive-date=September 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922185525/http://www.jwire.com.au/news/australias-oldest-jew-passes-away/17989 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Australia's oldest Jew turns 110|url=http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/03/06/3086294/australias-oldest-jew-turns-100|work=JTA|date=March 6, 2011|access-date=June 11, 2013|archive-date=August 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806072356/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/03/06/3086294/australias-oldest-jew-turns-100|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://poststar.com/oldest-records/article_288a694a-95c5-11e2-9556-0019bb2963f4.html |author= |title='Oldest' records |publisher=Poststar.com |date=March 25, 2013 |accessdate=April 13, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/62483/elsie-rich-of-santa-rosa-is-among-oldest-jews-in-u.s/ |author= Emma Silvers|title=Elsie Rich of Santa Rosa is turning 110 — she was among the oldest Jews in the world! |publisher=Jweekly |date=August 4, 2011 |accessdate=April 13, 2013}}</ref> born in [[New York City]] to Isaac and Kate Jacobson, who fled from the [[Russian Empire]], and the oldest verified Jewish person in history from November 6, 2012, 12 weeks after turning 113, when she broke fellow German-born American [[Adelheid Kirschbaum]]'s record of 113 years and 83 days though until August 27, 2014, when fellow Russian-born American [[Goldie Steinberg]] (born October 30, 1900), who was the oldest living Jewish person after her death, broke her record. |
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'''Grace Thaxton''' ([[June 18]], [[1891]] – [[July 6]], [[2005]]) was a [[supercentenarian]], the [[oldest people|oldest person]] in [[Kentucky]], the fourth-oldest person in the [[United States|U.S.]] and [[list of the oldest people|the sixth-oldest documented person in the world]] at the time of her death at age 114.<ref>[http://www.grg.org/GThaxton.htm LA Times report at the Gerontology Research Group]</ref> Grace was [[U.S. state longevity recordholders|the oldest documented person ever]] born in the state of [[New York]], in [[Rockland, New York|Rockland]] to be precise, and narrowly missed the all-time age record for a Kentucky resident of 114 years and 92 days, set by [[U.S. state longevity recordholders|Mary Anna Boone]] in 2001, when she died in [[Winchester, Kentucky|Winchester]] from a bout of [[pneumonia]] not long after her last birthday.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} |
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Kozak died of a [[heart attack]] at a hospital in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], early in the morning of Tuesday June 11, 2013{{when|reason=Exactly which time did Kozak die? Is there any report about her exact time of death?|date=February 2023}} - barely around a quarter of a day before the oldest living person, 116-year-old Japaneseman [[Jiroemon Kimura]] (who died 2:08 a.m. the night of June 12 = 1:08 p.m. the afternoon of June 11 [[Eastern Time Zone|EDT]]). |
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Moreover, her own mother died at 109,{{Fact|date=December 2007}} nearly a supercentenarian herself, and Thaxton almost lived to see her son Robert turn 90 on [[July 12]], [[2005]]. |
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'''Delphia S. Welford''' (9 September 1875 – 14 November 1992) was an [[Americans|American]] [[Supercentenarian]] claimed to have been born on 9 September 1881; however, the research conducted by the Gerontology Research Group between the years 2016–2023 determined that she was actually born in 1875, and that she was born in [[Okolona, Mississippi]]. USA. |
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'''Grace Rebecca Nelsen Jones''' ([[June 4]], [[1893]]–[[April 24]], [[2006]]) was born in [[Richmond, Virginia]], [[United States]] to [[Denmark|Danish]] [[immigration to the United States|immigrant]] parents. Grace was their 12th and last child, born when her mother was already 43 years old. She later married Charles Jones and started a family of her own. In [[2005]], Grace became the [[Virginia]] state recordholder for the oldest verified person born over there. She died at the age of 112 years and 324 days. At the time of her passing, Grace ranked as the world's 10th-oldest person.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/cooldancer/memory/memory.html In memory of Grace Nelsen Jones]</ref> |
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Welford's parents were Richard and Heddie Welford. The family moved to [[Humboldt, Tennessee|Humboldt,]] [[Gibson, Tennessee|Gibson,]] Tennessee when she was still a child. She had one son, Leo Mathis, in the late 1890s. Welford never married and spent the rest of her life in Humboldt. She was a homemaker and a member of the Lane Chapel C.M.E Church. |
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=== Flossie Page === |
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'''Flossie Page''' ([[Haven, Kansas]], [[June 12]], [[1893]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.kake.com/news/features/4/765737.html |title=Flossie Page |date= [[May 9]], [[2004]] |publisher=Kake.com |accessdate=2007-12-09}}</ref> – [[Butler County, Kansas]], [[February 22]], [[2006]]{{Fact|date=December 2007}}) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]] who broke [[U.S. state longevity recordholders|the record for the oldest person]] of [[Kansas]] on record on [[February 9]], [[2006]], the previous record of 112 years 241 days having been set by Katherine Jones in 1992, but she died exactly two weeks after achieving this feat.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} |
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Welford died at Parkview Manor Health Care Center in [[Humboldt, Tennessee]], USA on 14 November 1992 at the age of 117 years, 66 days. |
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Page ranked as the [[oldest people|sixth-oldest person]] in the U.S. and eleventh in the world when she died, aged 112 years and 255 days.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} |
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After graduating from high school, she taught at a one-room school house near [[Lewis, Kansas|Lewis]], and later worked at the "War Risk and Insurance Department" in [[Washington, D.C.]] upon the start of [[World War I|the Second World War]]. Page married Fredric William Page in 1926. He died in 1967. She attributed her [[longevity]] to living a moral life, and taking no medication whatsoever.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} |
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=== Marion Higgins === |
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'''Marion Bigelow Higgins''' ([[New York City]], [[June 26]], [[1893]] - [[Seal Beach, California]], [[March 2]], [[2006]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]]. At an early age, she moved to [[Maine]], and later on to [[California]].<ref>Thurber, Jon. "Obituaries; Marion B. Higgins, 112", Los Angeles Times, [[March 4]], [[2006]].</ref> |
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On [[May 29]], [[2005]], Marion was recognized as California's [[oldest people|oldest living person]], four weeks shy of 112 (following the passing of [[Margaret Russell]], aged 112). |
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Her memory was remarkable for a person her age. She could remember from age one, and recite poems backwards. |
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Moreover, she wrote her first book herself at the 'tender' age of 102.<ref>http://www.grg.org/AMalcolm.htm</ref> |
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Marion died from congestive [[heart failure]], aged 112 years and 249 days. She was ranked as sixth-oldest in the U.S. and 11th in the world at the time of her passing. |
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=== Gertrude Baines === |
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'''Gertrude Baines''' (born [[April 6]], [[1894]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]], who is currently [[oldest people|the fourth-oldest living person in the world]], since the [[November 14]], [[2007]] death of American woman [[Bertha Fry]], and the third-oldest living person in the United States. Aside from her [[arthritis]], Baines is very healthy and has never had a seriously sick day in her life. Born in [[Shellman, Georgia]], she currently lives in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]. |
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As of [[November 2007]], aged 113, Baines is one of the 90 [[list of the oldest people|longest lived people ever]]. |
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=== Catherine Dahlheimer Hagel === |
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'''Catherine Dahlheimer Hagel''' (born [[28 November]], [[1894]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]]. She is currently, at age 113, the [[oldest people|fourth-oldest]] person in the U.S. and the seventh-oldest person in the world since the [[December 22]], [[2007]] death of American woman [[Leila Backman Shull]]. She was a farmer, and didn't stop farming until she was 100, when she moved to the North Ridge Care Center in [[New Hope, Minnesota]].{{Fact|date=December 2007}} Hagel had 11 children (nine of whom are currently still living) with her husband, John, who died in 1966 at age 74.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} |
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Incidentally, the [[Minnesota]] state record of 113 years and 72 days is held by Catherine Hagel's sister-in-law,{{Fact|date=December 2007}}{{Or|date=December 2007}} [[#Delvina Dahlheimer|Delvina Dahlheimer]] (1888-2002). |
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*[http://nc.startribune.com/blogs/kersten/?cat=3 "Her 112 Years Have Been Filled with Hard Work, Faith and the Funnies"], Minneapolis Star Tribune |
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=== Elizabeth Stefan === |
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'''Elizabeth Stefan''' (born [[May 13]], [[1895]])<ref>[http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM Validated Living Supercentenarians]</ref><ref>[http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/oldest.html The Oldest Human Beings]</ref> is an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]] of [[Hungarian American|Hungarian]] descent.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} She is the tenth-oldest person in the world. |
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Born in [[Hungary]], Stefan [[immigration to the United States|emigrated]] to the United States in 1913. She is believed to be the oldest Hungarian ever. |
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Stefan is living in [[Connecticut]]. Her 112th birthday was celebrated in a nursing home in [[Norwalk, Connecticut|Norwalk]] in 2007. |
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=== Thomas Nelson === |
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'''Thomas D. Nelson, Sr.''' ([[July 8]], [[1895]] - [[January 9]], [[2007]]) was, at age 111, the oldest living man in the [[United States|USA]] and the second-oldest in the world from [[December 7]], [[2006]] (the death of [[Moses Hardy]]) for one month until his death. |
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He had been living in [[Port Arthur, Texas]] since the early [[1930s]]. He opened a candy shop in the mid-1930s, and worked there for more than 60 years.<ref>{{cite news |author=Ashley Sanders |title=PA’s Nelson celebrates birthday milestone. |
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=== George Rene Francis=== |
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'''George Rene Francis''' (born [[June 6]], [[1896]]) is, at age 111, a supercentenarian who is [[oldest people|the joint second-oldest living man in the world]], together with [[United Kingdom|Englishman]] [[Henry Allingham]]. He is also the oldest living man in the United States. Francis lives in [[California]]. Since the death of fellow 111-year-old Thomas Nelson on [[January 9]], [[2007]], he is the oldest living American male.<ref name="GRG">[http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM Validated Living Supercentenarians]</ref> |
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Francis resides in [[Sacramento, California]], but traces his roots to [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]. He credits his [[longevity|long life]] to nature, and enjoys a rich diet of pork, eggs, milk and lard. He gave up smoking cigars at the age of 75.<ref name="Sacbee">[http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/204734.html Life looks good at 110]</ref> |
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=== Delphia Spencer Hankins === |
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'''Delphia Spencer Hankins''' ([[July 23]], [[1896]] – [[October 17]], [[2007]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]]. Hankins was the [[oldest people|oldest person]] in [[Mississippi]] at the time of her death at age 111. |
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She was born in [[Itawamba County, Mississippi]].<ref name=cd> {{cite news |first=|last=|title= Delphia Hankins |url=http://www.cdispatch.com/articles/2007/10/18/obituaries/obituaries.txt|work=[[Commercial Dispatch]] |publisher= |date=2007-10-18 |accessdate=2007-10-20}}</ref> to Henry Jackson Spencer and Samantha Fikes Spencer.<ref name=cd/> In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Curtis Hankins; her brothers, Bobby, Kip, Grady, Chester and Curtis Spencer; and a son who died in infancy. |
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Hankins had been a resident of [[Aberdeen, Mississippi]] from 1942 until 2000.<ref name=cd/> She worked at Aberdeen Hospital and at Dr. Murphree's Clinic,<ref name=cd/> and then a [[homemaker]] until she was 104.<ref name=cd/> Afterwards, she moved to [[West Point, Mississippi]], where she spent the last seven years of her life.<ref name=cd/> |
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Delphia Hankins died at the ''Dugan Memorial Home'' in West Point.<ref name=cd/> |
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At the time of her death she was survived by two daughters, Olema Poss of West Point and Kathryn Crump of Aberdeen; a son, W.D. Hankins of Aberdeen; twenty-seven grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren |
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===Delvina Dahlheimer=== |
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'''Mary Delvina Dahlheimer Morisette''' ([[December 31]], [[1888]] – [[March 13]], [[2002]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]], is [[U.S. state longevity recordholders|the oldest person ever]] in [[Minnesota]] and was [[oldest people|the fourth-oldest person in the world]] at the time of her death at age [[list of the oldest people|113 years and 72 days]]. She never drank, having to raise seven children on a farm in [[Elk River, Minnesota]].{{Fact|date=December 2007}} After she broke her hip in 2000, she was sent to the Guardian Angels Care Center where she lived out the rest of her days.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} Dahlheimer's 113-year-old sister-in-law{{Or|date=December 2007}} [[#Catherine Hagel|Catherine Hagel]] is currently the oldest living person in Minnesota.{{Fact|date=December 2007}} |
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==See also== |
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<ref name=GRG-2023>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/2023-validations/ |title=2023 validations |publisher=[[Gerontology Research Group]] |access-date=May 12, 2024}}</ref> |
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<ref name=GRG-2024>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/2024-validations/ |title=2024 validations |publisher=[[Gerontology Research Group]] |access-date=May 12, 2024}}</ref> |
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<ref name=GRG-Deceased>{{cite web |url=https://grg.org/WSRL/TableE.aspx |title=GRG World Supercentenarian Rankings List – Validated Deceased Supercentenarians |first1=Louis |last1=Epstein |first2=Robert |last2=Young |first3=Johnny |last3=Adams |first4=Mark |last4=Muir |publisher=[[Gerontology Research Group]] |date=December 11, 2023 |access-date=January 13, 2024}}</ref> |
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<ref name=GRG-G-2015>{{cite web |url=http://grg.org/Adams/G.HTM |title=GRG Database by Nation |first1=Marco |last1=Wikkerink |first2=Waclaw Jan |last2=Kroczek |publisher=[[Gerontology Research Group]] |date=January 1, 2015 |access-date=June 2, 2019}}</ref> |
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<ref name=GRG-Historical>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/recent-historical-validations-by-the-gerontology-research-group/ |title=Recent historical validations by the Gerontology Research Group |publisher=[[Gerontology Research Group]] |date=April 29, 2023 |access-date=May 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502020450/https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/recent-historical-validations-by-the-gerontology-research-group/ |archive-date=May 2, 2023 |url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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<ref name=WSRL>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/world-supercentenarian-rankings-list/ |title=World Supercentenarian Rankings List |publisher=[[Gerontology Research Group]] |date=April 24, 2024 |access-date=May 12, 2024}}</ref> |
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American supercentenarians are citizens or residents of the United States who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 782 American supercentenarians.[1][needs update] As of June 2, 2024, it lists the oldest living American-born person as Spanish emigrant Maria Branyas (born in San Francisco, California, on March 4, 1907), aged 117 years, 90 days. The oldest American resident is listed as Elizabeth Francis (born in Houston, Texas, on July 25, 1909), aged 114 years, 313 days.[2] The longest-lived person ever from the United States is Sarah Knauss, of Hollywood, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, who died on December 30, 1999, aged 119 years and 97 days.[3][4]
100 oldest known Americans
Below is a list of the 100 longest lived American supercentenarians according to the GRG and reliable sourcing.[1][5]
Deceased Living
Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | Birthplace | Place of death or residence |
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1 | Sarah Knauss[1] | F
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September 24, 1880 | December 30, 1999 | 119 years, 97 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
2 | Maria Branyas[2] | F
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March 4, 1907 | Living | 117 years, 90 days | California | Spain |
3 | Delphia Welford[6] | F
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September 9, 1875 | November 14, 1992 | 117 years, 66 days | Mississippi | Tennessee |
4 | Susannah Mushatt Jones[5] | F
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July 6, 1899 | May 12, 2016 | 116 years, 311 days | Alabama | New York |
5 | Gertrude Weaver[5] | F
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July 4, 1898 | April 6, 2015 | 116 years, 276 days | Arkansas | Arkansas |
6 | Elizabeth Bolden[1] | F
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August 15, 1890 | December 11, 2006 | 116 years, 118 days | Tennessee | Tennessee |
7 | Besse Cooper[5] | F
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August 26, 1896 | December 4, 2012 | 116 years, 100 days | Tennessee | Georgia |
8 | Jeralean Talley[5] | F
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May 23, 1899 | June 17, 2015 | 116 years, 25 days | Georgia | Michigan |
9 | Edith Ceccarelli[7] | F
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February 5, 1908 | February 22, 2024[8] | 116 years, 17 days | California | California |
10 | Maggie Barnes[1][a] | F
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March 6, 1882 | January 19, 1998 | 115 years, 319 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
11 | Dina Manfredini[5] | F
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April 4, 1897 | December 17, 2012 | 115 years, 257 days | Italy | Iowa |
12 | Christian Mortensen[1] | M
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August 16, 1882 | April 25, 1998 | 115 years, 252 days | Denmark | California |
13 | Hester Ford[5] | F
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August 15, 1905 | April 17, 2021[9] | 115 years, 245 days | South Carolina | North Carolina |
14 | Edna Parker[5] | F
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April 20, 1893 | November 26, 2008 | 115 years, 220 days | Indiana | Indiana |
15 | Margaret Skeete[1] | F
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October 27, 1878 | May 7, 1994 | 115 years, 192 days | Texas | Virginia |
16 | Bernice Madigan[5] | F
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July 24, 1899 | January 3, 2015 | 115 years, 163 days | Massachusetts | Massachusetts |
17 | Gertrude Baines[5] | F
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April 6, 1894 | September 11, 2009 | 115 years, 158 days | Georgia | California |
18 | Bettie Wilson[1] | F
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September 13, 1890 | February 13, 2006 | 115 years, 153 days | Mississippi | Mississippi |
19 | Iris Westman[5] | F
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August 28, 1905 | January 3, 2021[10] | 115 years, 128 days | North Dakota | North Dakota |
20 | Marie-Josephine Gaudette[5] | F
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March 25, 1902 | July 13, 2017 | 115 years, 110 days | New Hampshire | Italy |
21 | Susie Gibson[1] | F
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October 31, 1890 | February 16, 2006 | 115 years, 108 days | Mississippi | Alabama |
Thelma Sutcliffe[5] | F
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October 1, 1906 | January 17, 2022[11] | Nebraska | Nebraska | ||
23 | Edna Kern[6] | F
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October 14, 1900 | January 20, 2016 | 115 years, 98 days | California | Nevada |
24 | Augusta Holtz[1] | F
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August 3, 1871 | October 21, 1986 | 115 years, 79 days | Prussia[b] | Missouri |
25 | Bessie Hendricks[12] | F
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November 7, 1907 | January 3, 2023[13] | 115 years, 57 days | Iowa | Iowa |
26 | Easter Wiggins[14] | F
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June 1, 1875 | July 7, 1990 | 115 years, 36 days | Mississippi | Mississippi |
27 | Maud Farris-Luse[15] | F
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February 21, 1887 | March 18, 2002 | 115 years, 25 days | Michigan | Michigan |
28 | Antonia Gerena Rivera[5] | F
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May 19, 1900 | June 2, 2015 | 115 years, 14 days | Puerto Rico[c] | Florida |
29 | Mary Bidwell[17] | F
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May 9, 1881 | April 25, 1996 | 114 years, 352 days | Connecticut | Connecticut |
30 | Hazel Plummer[12] | F
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June 19, 1908 | May 25, 2023[18] | 114 years, 340 days | Massachusetts | Massachusetts |
31 | Ophelia Burks[19] | F
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October 25, 1903 | September 27, 2018 | 114 years, 337 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
32 | Elizabeth Francis[2] | F
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July 25, 1909 | Living | 114 years, 313 days | Louisiana | Texas |
33 | Mary Josephine Ray[5] | F
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May 17, 1895 | March 7, 2010 | 114 years, 294 days | Canada | New Hampshire |
34 | Goldie Steinberg[5] | F
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October 30, 1900 | August 16, 2015 | 114 years, 290 days | Moldova[d] | New York |
35 | Delphine Gibson[5] | F
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August 17, 1903 | May 9, 2018 | 114 years, 265 days | South Carolina | Pennsylvania |
36 | Mary Royster[20] | F
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April 15, 1875 | December 28, 1989 | 114 years, 257 days | Virginia | North Carolina |
37 | Neva Morris[5] | F
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August 3, 1895 | April 6, 2010 | 114 years, 246 days | Iowa | Iowa |
38 | Blanche Cobb[5] | F
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September 8, 1900 | May 1, 2015 | 114 years, 235 days | Georgia | Florida |
39 | Mila Mangold[5] | F
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November 14, 1907 | July 2, 2022[21] | 114 years, 230 days | Nebraska | California |
40 | Myrtle Dorsey[22] | F
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November 20, 1885 | June 25, 2000 | 114 years, 218 days | Ohio | Ohio |
41 | Carrie Lazenby[23] | F
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February 9, 1882 | September 4, 1996 | 114 years, 208 days | Georgia | Illinois |
42 | Walter Breuning[5] | M
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September 21, 1896 | April 14, 2011 | 114 years, 205 days | Minnesota | Montana |
43 | Eunice Sanborn[5] | F
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July 20, 1896 | January 31, 2011 | 114 years, 195 days | Louisiana | Texas |
44 | Grace Clawson[1] | F
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November 15, 1887 | May 28, 2002 | 114 years, 194 days | United Kingdom | New York |
45 | Wilhelmina Kott[1] | F
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March 7, 1880 | September 6, 1994 | 114 years, 183 days | Illinois | Illinois |
Adelina Domingues[1] | F
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February 19, 1888 | August 21, 2002 | Cape Verde[e] | California | ||
47 | Lucy Mirigian[5] | F
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August 15, 1906 | February 12, 2021 | 114 years, 181 days | Armenia[f] | California |
48 | Charlotte Benkner[1] | F
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November 16, 1889 | May 14, 2004 | 114 years, 180 days | Germany | Ohio |
49 | Ettie Mae Greene[24] | F
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September 19, 1877 | February 26, 1992 | 114 years, 160 days | West Virginia | West Virginia |
50 | Dominga Velasco[5] | F
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May 12, 1901 | October 11, 2015 | 114 years, 152 days | Mexico | California |
51 | Irene Frank[1] | F
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October 1, 1881 | February 28, 1996 | 114 years, 150 days | Texas | Missouri |
52 | Georgia Ella Jordan[25] | F
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September 18, 1880 | February 9, 1995 | 114 years, 144 days | Georgia | Virginia |
53 | Olivia Patricia Thomas[5] | F
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June 29, 1895 | November 16, 2009 | 114 years, 140 days | Iowa | New York |
Alelia Murphy[5] | F
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July 6, 1905 | November 23, 2019 | North Carolina | New York | ||
55 | Irene Dunham[5] | F
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December 16, 1907 | May 1, 2022[26] | 114 years, 136 days | Michigan | Michigan |
56 | Nina Willis[12] | F
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January 14, 1909 | May 17, 2023[27] | 114 years, 123 days | Georgia | Georgia |
Pearl Berg[7] | F
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October 1, 1909 | February 1, 2024[28] | Indiana | California | ||
58 | Anna Henderson[5] | F
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March 5, 1900 | July 1, 2014 | 114 years, 118 days | Georgia | Pennsylvania |
59 | Emma Verona Johnston[1] | F
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August 6, 1890 | December 1, 2004 | 114 years, 117 days | Iowa | Ohio |
Mamie Rearden[1] | F
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September 7, 1898 | January 2, 2013 | South Carolina | Georgia | ||
Erna Zahn[5] | F
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April 14, 1908 | August 9, 2022[29] | Wisconsin | Minnesota | ||
62 | Bettie Chatmon[1] | F
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April 30, 1884 | August 16, 1998 | 114 years, 108 days | Louisiana | Texas |
Lessie Brown[5] | F
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September 22, 1904 | January 8, 2019 | Georgia | Ohio | ||
64 | Odie Matthews[1] | F
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December 28, 1878 | April 14, 1993 | 114 years, 107 days | Texas | Arizona |
65 | Florence Knapp[1] | F
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October 10, 1873 | January 11, 1988 | 114 years, 93 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
Elena Slough[1] | F
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July 4, 1889 | October 5, 2003 | Pennsylvania | New Jersey | ||
67 | Mary Anna Boone[1] | F
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February 10, 1887 | May 13, 2001 | 114 years, 92 days | Kentucky | Kentucky |
68 | Minnie Whicker[5] | F
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July 24, 1906 | October 22, 2020 | 114 years, 90 days | Arkansas | California |
69 | Delma Kollar[5] | F
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October 31, 1897 | January 24, 2012 | 114 years, 85 days | Kansas | Oregon |
70 | Ila Jones[5] | F
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August 21, 1903 | November 10, 2017 | 114 years, 81 days | Georgia | Georgia |
71 | Maggie Renfro[5] | F
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November 14, 1895 | January 22, 2010 | 114 years, 69 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
72 | Emma Tillman[1] | F
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November 22, 1892 | January 28, 2007 | 114 years, 67 days | North Carolina | Connecticut |
Anna Stoehr[5] | F
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October 15, 1900 | December 21, 2014 | Iowa | Minnesota | ||
74 | Leila Denmark[5] | F
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February 1, 1898 | April 1, 2012 | 114 years, 60 days | Georgia | Georgia |
75 | Adele Dunlap[1] | F
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December 12, 1902 | February 5, 2017[30] | 114 years, 55 days | New Jersey | New Jersey |
76 | Naomi Conner[1] | F
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August 30, 1899 | October 18, 2013 | 114 years, 49 days | Texas | Texas |
Ora Holland[5] | F
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December 24, 1900 | February 11, 2015 | Missouri | Oklahoma | ||
78 | Katie Hatton[31] | F
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December 18, 1877 | January 24, 1992 | 114 years, 37 days | Texas | Texas |
79 | Ellen Goodwill[5] | F
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February 2, 1907 | March 2, 2021[32] | 114 years, 28 days | Kentucky | Michigan |
80 | Grace Thaxton[1] | F
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June 18, 1891 | July 6, 2005 | 114 years, 18 days | New York | Kentucky |
81 | Soledad Mexia[1] | F
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August 13, 1899 | August 30, 2013 | 114 years, 17 days | Mexico | California |
82 | Minnie Ward[1] | F
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November 19, 1885 | December 2, 1999 | 114 years, 13 days | Tennessee | Massachusetts |
83 | Arbella Ewing[5] | F
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March 13, 1894 | March 22, 2008 | 114 years, 9 days | Texas | Texas |
84 | Catherine Hagel[5] | F
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November 28, 1894 | December 6, 2008 | 114 years, 8 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
85 | Emma Otis[5] | F
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October 22, 1901 | October 25, 2015 | 114 years, 3 days | Washington | Washington |
86 | Fred H. Hale, Sr.[1] | M
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December 1, 1890 | November 19, 2004 | 113 years, 354 days | Maine | New York |
87 | Miriam Carpelan[1] | F
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July 8, 1882 | June 22, 1996 | 113 years, 350 days | United Kingdom | California |
Elsie Thompson[1] | F
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April 5, 1899 | March 21, 2013 | Pennsylvania | Florida | ||
89 | Bertha Fry[1] | F
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December 1, 1893 | November 14, 2007 | 113 years, 348 days | Indiana | Indiana |
90 | Mae Harrington[1] | F
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January 20, 1889 | December 29, 2002 | 113 years, 343 days | New York | New York |
91 | Ellen Thomas[33] | F
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December 25, 1877 | December 2, 1991 | 113 years, 342 days | Tennessee | Michigan |
Daisey Bailey[5] | F
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March 30, 1896 | March 7, 2010 | Tennessee | Michigan | ||
93 | Agatha Mitchell[1] | F
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March 26, 1887 | February 25, 2001 | 113 years, 336 days | Virginia | Virginia |
94 | Goldie Michelson[5] | F
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August 8, 1902 | July 8, 2016 | 113 years, 335 days | Ukraine[g] | Massachusetts |
95 | Merle Barwis[5] | F
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December 23, 1900 | November 22, 2014 | 113 years, 334 days | Iowa | Canada |
96 | Clara Huhn[1] | F
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January 28, 1887 | December 20, 2000 | 113 years, 327 days | Nebraska | California |
Beulah Meloche[5] | F
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December 5, 1906 | October 27, 2020 | New York | New York | ||
98 | Eliza Underwood[34] | F
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March 15, 1867 | January 27, 1981 | 113 years, 318 days | North Carolina | District of Columbia |
Corinne Dixon Taylor[1] | F
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April 2, 1893 | February 14, 2007 | District of Columbia | District of Columbia | ||
100 | Annabelle Holblinger[12] | F
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March 16, 1909 | January 27, 2023[35] | 113 years, 317 days | New York | Colorado |
Biographies
Mary Bidwell
Mary Electa Bidwell (May 9, 1881 – April 25, 1996)[17] was an American supercentenarian. She died aged 114 years and 352 days and is the oldest person on record ever to die in Connecticut.[36][37][38]
Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel.[37] She was a descendant of John Bidwell, one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. Bidwell worked as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse for six years. She married Charles Hubbell Bidwell, a distant cousin, in 1906.[36] Bidwell lived on her own in North Haven, Connecticut, until she was 110. Bidwell died at the Arden House, a nursing home in Hamden, Connecticut.[38]
Maggie Barnes
Maggie Pauline Barnes (née Hinnant; March 6, 1882 – January 19, 1998)[39] was an American supercentenarian. She was born to a former slave and married a tenant farmer. Barnes died on January 19, 1998, in Johnston County, North Carolina, of gangrene.[40]
Her exact year of birth has been disputed. Though the year 1882 is written in her family bible, the 1900 US Census records her birth year as 1881 and her marriage license claims that she was born in 1880.[40] Authenticating to what was put on the family Bible, Barnes lived for 115 years and 319 days.
Adelina Domingues
Adelina Domingues (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest person from the death of 114-year-old British-American woman Grace Clawson on May 28, 2002, to her own death less than three months later.[41] Domingues was born in Cape Verde. Domingues's Italian father was a harbor pilot by profession, and her mother was Portuguese by ethnicity.[42] She married a ship captain in 1907, and moved to the United States that year.[42] Her husband died from cancer in 1950.[42] Domingues was a missionary from the Church of the Nazarene in Cape Verde and other parts of Africa, and also a religious preacher when she lived in Massachusetts, as well as an expert seamstress.[42]
Domingues was a firm believer in the American Dream, was deeply religious, had conservative political views and was a pen pal of former President of the United States Ronald Reagan.[42] She had four children, but only one of them (a son, Frank) reached adulthood.[42] Frank died in 1998 at the age of 71, with Adelina outliving him by four years.[42] Domingues died at a nursing home in the San Diego, California, area on August 21, 2002, at age 114 years and 183 days.[42] She had claimed she was actually one year older, or 115 years old, but her family and Cape Verdean diplomats did some research and discovered her baptismal information, from which they concluded that Domingues was 114 years old when she died.[43]
Charlotte Benkner
Charlotte Benkner (née Enterlein; November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004)[44][45][46][47] was an American supercentenarian and considered the world's oldest person from 2003 to 2004.[48][44][45] Subsequent recognition of other supercentenarians ranked Benkner as the third oldest at the time of her death.[46]
Benkner was born in Leipzig, Germany, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1896. She grew up in Peekskill, New York, where her family ran the Albert Hotel, and as a young woman once met then U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.[47][49] After her 1908 marriage to Karl Benkner, she moved west, living in Pennsylvania and Ohio, before retiring to Arizona. Already a supercentenarian and the oldest person in Arizona, Benkner returned to Ohio to live in North Lima with her sister Tillie O'Hare, her youngest sibling.[47] Tillie died in January 2004, just three weeks shy of becoming a centenarian.[49] Benkner survived her sister by only four months, and died at age 114 years and 180 days, after a brief hospital stay in Youngstown, Ohio.
Emma Verona Johnston
Emma Verona Johnston (née Calhoun; August 6, 1890 – December 1, 2004) was an American supercentenarian who was born in Indianola, Iowa, to a large family.[50] She graduated from Drake University in the Class of 1912 and went on to work as a Latin teacher before she married ophthalmologist Harry Johnston;[51][52][53] at the time of her death, she was the university's oldest living graduate.[51]
At age 98, Johnston moved from Iowa to Ohio in order to live with her daughter and son-in-law. Even after turning 110, she continued to be in good health, alert and engaging in conversations, and was still able to walk up steps.[51] She became the oldest known living American in May 2004.[50] Three months later, on the occasion of her 114th birthday, she was presented with a proclamation signed by then Drake University President David Maxwell.[54] The university's Vice President for Institutional Advancement, John Willey, nominated her for an honorary degree.[53] Johnston died in Worthington, Ohio, on December 1, 2004,[50] at age 114 years and 117 days.
Bettie Wilson
Bettie Antry Wilson (née Rutherford; September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006)[55] was the oldest resident of Mississippi ever recorded, and was considered the oldest living person in the United States from December 2004 until the subsequent verification of Elizabeth Bolden.[citation needed] Both were born in the rural South, where they lived less than 100 miles apart. Wilson was the daughter of freed slaves, Solomon and Delia Rutherford.[56]
In April 2005, Wilson moved into a new home funded by donations, in New Albany. She celebrated her 115th birthday in September 2005, and died on February 13, 2006, aged 115 years, 153 days.[55]
George Francis
George Rene Francis (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008)[57][58][59] was an American supercentenarian and the joint second-oldest living man in the world, together with Englishman Henry Allingham, also born on June 6, 1896, until Francis's death aged 112 years and 204 days. He was also the oldest living man in the United States, following the death of then 111-year-old Antonio Pierro on February 8, 2007. Francis was from New Orleans, Louisiana, but after 1949 lived in Sacramento, California, where a local newspaper published a poem that Francis enjoyed reciting to friends and the public throughout his life.[60] He credited his longevity to nature, and enjoyed a rich diet of pork, eggs, milk and lard. He gave up smoking cigars at the age of 75.[61]
Francis attempted to join the army in World War I, but was rejected for service in 1918 as being too short and small (he weighed only about 100 pounds [45 kg]). Despite this, he later was a boxer before becoming a barber and then a chauffeur.[57]
Bernice Madigan
Bernice Madigan (née Emerson; July 24, 1899 – January 3, 2015) was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts,[5][62][63] and moved to Cheshire when she was six.[64] In 1918, after graduating from Adams High School,[64][65] she responded to government drives to recruit women into employment during WWI, and moved to Washington, D.C.[62] After the war, she worked as a secretary for the Department of the Treasury and the Veterans Administration.[66] She married Paul Madigan (d. 1976) in 1925;[66] they lived in the Washington, D.C., area and then in Silver Spring, Maryland.[64] She retired in 1942, after which she volunteered with the church and at nursing homes, playing piano for residents.[64] She returned to live with family in Massachusetts in 2007.[66] She participated in Boston University School of Medicine's New England Centenarian Study,[67] and was interviewed and filmed by the Center for Aging at the University of Chicago and the ABC World News.[67] She is one of 100 centenarians in The Archon Genomics XPRIZE.[68][69] She joined social media, with profiles on Facebook and Twitter.[66][70][71] Madigan died in her sleep at the age of 115 years and 163 days at 2 a.m. on January 3, 2015.[63][71] At the time of her death, she was the oldest living resident of Massachusetts,[72] the fourth-oldest living person in the United States[73] and the world's fifth-oldest living person.[73][74]
Evelyn Kozak
Eva Chavka Rivka "Evelyn" Kozak (née Jacobson) (August 14, 1899 – June 11, 2013)[75][76] was an American Jewish supercentenarian,[77][78][79][80] born in New York City to Isaac and Kate Jacobson, who fled from the Russian Empire, and the oldest verified Jewish person in history from November 6, 2012, 12 weeks after turning 113, when she broke fellow German-born American Adelheid Kirschbaum's record of 113 years and 83 days though until August 27, 2014, when fellow Russian-born American Goldie Steinberg (born October 30, 1900), who was the oldest living Jewish person after her death, broke her record.
Kozak died of a heart attack at a hospital in Brooklyn, New York City, early in the morning of Tuesday June 11, 2013[when?] - barely around a quarter of a day before the oldest living person, 116-year-old Japaneseman Jiroemon Kimura (who died 2:08 a.m. the night of June 12 = 1:08 p.m. the afternoon of June 11 EDT).
Delphia Welford
Delphia S. Welford (9 September 1875 – 14 November 1992) was an American Supercentenarian claimed to have been born on 9 September 1881; however, the research conducted by the Gerontology Research Group between the years 2016–2023 determined that she was actually born in 1875, and that she was born in Okolona, Mississippi. USA.
Welford's parents were Richard and Heddie Welford. The family moved to Humboldt, Gibson, Tennessee when she was still a child. She had one son, Leo Mathis, in the late 1890s. Welford never married and spent the rest of her life in Humboldt. She was a homemaker and a member of the Lane Chapel C.M.E Church.
Welford died at Parkview Manor Health Care Center in Humboldt, Tennessee, USA on 14 November 1992 at the age of 117 years, 66 days.
Notes
- ^ May have been older (116 or even 117); possibly born in 1881 or even 1880
- ^ Holtz was born in the Province of Posen, which was a part of the German Empire at the time of her birth. Today, this area is a part of Poland.
- ^ Residents of Puerto Rico born on or after April 25, 1898, are United States citizens.[16]
- ^ Steinberg was born in Kishinev, which had then been a part of the Russian Empire. It is now the capital of Moldova.
- ^ Domingues was born in Cape Verde, which was at that time a Portuguese colony. Now it is an independent country.
- ^ Mirigian was born in Armenia, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
- ^ Michelson was born in Elizabethgrad, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. It is now part of Ukraine.
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