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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}} |
'''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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=== Mary McKinney === |
=== Mary McKinney === |
Revision as of 03:05, 7 January 2008
American supercentenarians (Citizens of United States who have attained the age of at least 110 years) include:
Summary table
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.
Name | Birth Year | Age | Living or Deceased |
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Martha Graham | 1844 | 114 | Deceased |
Mae Harrington | 1889 | 113 | Deceased |
Fannie Thomas | 1867 | 113 | Deceased |
Fannie Thomas | 1867 | 113 | Deceased |
Mary McKinney | 1873 | 113 | Deceased |
Carrie C. White | c.1874 | 116 | Deceased |
Joe Thomas | 1875 | c.111 | Deceased |
Wilhelmina Kott | 1879/1880 | c.115 | Deceased |
Mary Bidwell | 1881 | 114 | Deceased |
Clara Huhn | 1887 | 113 | Deceased |
Elena Slough | 1889 | c.114 | Deceased |
Bettie Wilson | 1890 | 115 | Deceased |
Grace Thaxton | 1891 | 114 | Deceased |
Grace Nelsen Jones | 1893 | 112 | Deceased |
Flossie Page | 1893 | 112 | Deceased |
Marion Higgins | 1893 | 112 | Deceased |
Gertrude Baines | 1894 | >113 | Living |
Elizabeth Stefan | 1895 | >112 | Living |
Delvina Dahlheimer | 1888 | 113 | Deceased |
People
Martha Graham
Martha Graham (December 27, 1844 – June 25, 1959) was an American supercentenarian who became 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 age 114 years and 180 days in Fayetteville, North Carolina.[1] Using this, an extrapolated birth date is December 27, 1844. Her original claimed year of birth, however, was 1840.[citation needed][original research?] 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).
Template:Succession box one to twoMae Harrington
Mae Maxwell Harrington (January 20, 1889 – December 29, 2002) was an American supercentenarian who became the oldest person in the history of the state of New York, breaking the record held since the 1920s by then 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 posthumously.[2]
Fannie Thomas
Fannie Thomas (April 24?, 1867 - January 22, 1981)[3] was listed in Guinness World Records as the oldest living American supercentenarian. As the Shigechiyo Izumi case was later disputed, Thomas may in fact have been the world's oldest person when she died at 113 years and 283? days.[citation needed] Her age was validated by a SSA study in 2002.[citation needed] However, the study put her birthdate as April 14, 1867, making her ten days older than previously believed.[citation needed]
Mary McKinney
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 "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 113 years and 248 days.
Florence Knapp
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carrie C. White
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.
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).
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 1900 Census match could not be considered an unequivocal identification.
Joe Thomas
Joe Thomas (May 1, 1875 - December 14, 1986) was an American supercentenarian and the 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.
(Note: this is a retroactive reconstruction of history. In reality, the Joe Thomas case was not verified until July 2002 by the SSA study, and Guinness did not recuperate the "oldest living man" category until 2000).
Wilhelmina Kott
Wilhelmina Kott (March 7, 1879/1880 - September 6, 1994) was an American supercentenarian recognized by Guinness World Records as the '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.
Her age was subject to a one-year discrepancy. Guinness recognized her as born in 1879 (based on the 1900 Census), but later research by the SSA study showed that she was listed as two months old in the 1880 Census, making her age more probably 114, not 115.
Mary Bidwell
Mary Electa Bidwell (May 9, 1881 - April 25, 1996) [4]was an American supercentenarian. She died at 114 years and 352 days, making her the 25th oldest person to ever live and the oldest American living at the time of her death. She was also the oldest person ever to die in Connecticut.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
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. [5]
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. [4] [7] She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1881.
Carrie Lazenby
Carrie Lazenby (February 9, 1882 - September 14, 1996) was an American supercentenarian. She died at 114 years and 218 days, making her the 32nd oldest person to ever live (tied with Japanese woman Ura Koyama), the fifteenth-oldest American person ever, and the sixth-oldest black person. Lazenby is also still the oldest person ever in Georgia.
Clara Huhn
Clara Herling Huhn (January 28, 1887 – December 20, 2000) was an American homemaker and supercentenarian. Born near Clarkson, Nebraska, she lived near 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 age 113 years 327 days, she is the 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.[11]
Elena Slough
Elena Rodenbaugh Proctor Slough (July 4, 1889 – October 5, 2003)[12] 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.[12]
Born in Horsham, Pennsylvania, she married twice and had children by each marriage.[citation needed] Incidentally, her 90-year-old daughter died three days before her at the same Cape May, New Jersey nursing home.[citation needed]
Some sources date her birth to 1888, but the oldest records state that she was born in 1889.[13]
Bettie Wilson
Bettie (Rutherford) Wilson (September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006)[14] 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.
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 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.
Wilson celebrated her 115th birthday in September 2005, at which time she ranked as the third-oldest living person in the world.
Wilson died at her 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.
- NBC videos of Bettie Wilson and Susie Gibson
Grace Thaxton
Grace Thaxton (June 18, 1891 – July 6, 2005) was a supercentenarian, the oldest person in Kentucky, the fourth-oldest person in the U.S. and the sixth-oldest documented person in the world at the time of her death at age 114.[15] Grace was the oldest documented person ever born in the state of New York, in Rockland to be precise, and narrowly missed the all-time age record for a Kentucky resident of 114 years and 92 days, set by Mary Anna Boone in 2001, when she died in Winchester from a bout of pneumonia not long after her last birthday.[citation needed]
Moreover, her own mother died at 109,[citation needed] nearly a supercentenarian herself, and Thaxton almost lived to see her son Robert turn 90 on July 12, 2005.
Grace Nelsen Jones
Grace Rebecca Nelsen Jones (June 4, 1893–April 24, 2006) was born in Richmond, Virginia, United States to Danish 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.[16]
Flossie Page
Flossie Page (Haven, Kansas, June 12, 1893[17] – Butler County, Kansas, February 22, 2006[citation needed]) was an American supercentenarian who broke 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.[citation needed]
Page ranked as the sixth-oldest person in the U.S. and eleventh in the world when she died, aged 112 years and 255 days.[citation needed]
After graduating from high school, she taught at a one-room school house near Lewis, and later worked at the "War Risk and Insurance Department" in Washington, D.C. upon the start of 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.[citation needed]
Marion Higgins
Marion Bigelow Higgins (New York City, June 26, 1893 - Seal Beach, California, March 2, 2006) was an American supercentenarian. At an early age, she moved to Maine, and later on to California.[18]
On May 29, 2005, Marion was recognized as California's oldest living person, four weeks shy of 112 (following the passing of Margaret Russell, aged 112).
Her memory was remarkable for a person her age. She could remember from age one, and recite poems backwards. Moreover, she wrote her first book herself at the 'tender' age of 102.[19]
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.
Gertrude Baines
Gertrude Baines (born April 6, 1894) is an American supercentenarian, who is currently 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.
As of November 2007, aged 113, Baines is one of the 90 longest lived people ever.
Catherine Dahlheimer Hagel
Catherine Dahlheimer Hagel (born 28 November, 1894) is an American supercentenarian. She is currently, at age 113, the 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.[citation needed] Hagel had 11 children (nine of whom are currently still living) with her husband, John, who died in 1966 at age 74.[citation needed]
Incidentally, the Minnesota state record of 113 years and 72 days is held by Catherine Hagel's sister-in-law,[citation needed][original research?] Delvina Dahlheimer (1888-2002).
- "Her 112 Years Have Been Filled with Hard Work, Faith and the Funnies", Minneapolis Star Tribune
Elizabeth Stefan
Elizabeth Stefan (born May 13, 1895)[20][21] is an American supercentenarian of Hungarian descent.[citation needed] She is the tenth-oldest person in the world.
Born in Hungary, Stefan emigrated to the United States in 1913. She is believed to be the oldest Hungarian ever.
Stefan is living in Connecticut. Her 112th birthday was celebrated in a nursing home in Norwalk in 2007.
Thomas Nelson
Thomas D. Nelson, Sr. (July 8, 1895 - January 9, 2007) was, at age 111, the oldest living man in the USA and the second-oldest in the world from December 7, 2006 (the death of Moses Hardy) for one month until his death.
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.[22][23]
George Rene Francis
George Rene Francis (born June 6, 1896) is, at age 111, a supercentenarian who is the joint second-oldest living man in the world, together with 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.[24]
Francis resides in Sacramento, California, but traces his roots to New Orleans, Louisiana. He credits his 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.[25]
Delphia Spencer Hankins
Delphia Spencer Hankins (July 23, 1896 – October 17, 2007) was an American supercentenarian. Hankins was the oldest person in Mississippi at the time of her death at age 111.
She was born in Itawamba County, Mississippi.[26] to Henry Jackson Spencer and Samantha Fikes Spencer.[26] 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.
Hankins had been a resident of Aberdeen, Mississippi from 1942 until 2000.[26] She worked at Aberdeen Hospital and at Dr. Murphree's Clinic,[26] and then a homemaker until she was 104.[26] Afterwards, she moved to West Point, Mississippi, where she spent the last seven years of her life.[26]
Delphia Hankins died at the Dugan Memorial Home in West Point.[26] 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
Delvina Dahlheimer
Mary Delvina Dahlheimer Morisette (December 31, 1888 – March 13, 2002) was an American supercentenarian, is the oldest person ever in Minnesota and was the fourth-oldest person in the world at the time of her death at age 113 years and 72 days. She never drank, having to raise seven children on a farm in Elk River, Minnesota.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] Dahlheimer's 113-year-old sister-in-law[original research?] Catherine Hagel is currently the oldest living person in Minnesota.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Compete Table of Supercentenarians Older Than 112". Gerontology Research Group. 2004-12-04. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
...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.
- ^ Jonas Kover. "Clinton woman's 'everyday' life ends at age 113 in nursing home". Observer-Dispatch. January 1, 2003. Section A, Page 01.
- ^ Hess, Beth B. (1991). "Chapter 11". Growing Old in America. Transaction Publishers. p. 173. ISBN 0887388469.
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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.
- ^ "Mary Electa Bidwell, Oldest person in the USA". Articles. Bidwell House Museum. 1996. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
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.
- ^ a b "Oldest person in the U.S. still teaching life lessons". CNN. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
... 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.
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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.
- ^ "Mary Electa Bidwell, 114, was oldest living American". Associated Press. 1996-04-28.
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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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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- ^ LA Times report at the Gerontology Research Group
- ^ In memory of Grace Nelsen Jones
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- ^ Validated Living Supercentenarians
- ^ The Oldest Human Beings
- ^ Ashley Sanders (2006-07-08). "PA's Nelson celebrates birthday milestone". Port Arthur News. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
... The creator and proprietor of Nelson's Confectionery on Lincoln Avenue celebrated his 111th birthday Saturday surrounded by his friends and family.
- ^ Ashley Sanders (2007-01-09). "Second-oldest man leaves sweet legacy". Port Arthur, Texas: Port Arthur News. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
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