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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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[[File:Walter Breuning April 8, 2010.jpg|thumb|[[Walter Breuning]], April 8, 2010, the second-oldest American-born man on record]] |
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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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==Living American supercentenarians== |
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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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Below is a list of supercentenarians who are living in the United States, from oldest to youngest. |
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!No. |
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!Name |
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!Sex |
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!Birth date |
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!Birthplace |
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!Residence |
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|1 |
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|Lessie Brown<ref name=GRG/> |
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|align=center|F |
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|September 22, 1904 |
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|{{ayd|1904|9|22}} |
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|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] |
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|[[Ohio]] |
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|2 |
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|Maggie Kidd<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/oldest-living-georgia-resident-turns-113/85-498115083|title=Oldest living Georgia resident turns 113|website=11alive.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|December 8, 1904 |
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|{{ayd|1904|12|8}} |
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|Georgia |
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|Georgia |
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|3 |
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|Alelia Murphy<ref name="GRG" /> |
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| align="center" |F |
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|July 6, 1905 |
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|{{ayd|1905|7|06}} |
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|[[North Carolina]] |
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|[[New York (state)|New York]] |
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|4 |
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|Hester Ford<ref name=GRG/> |
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|align=center|F |
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|August 15, 1905 |
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|{{ayd|1905|8|15}} |
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|[[South Carolina]] |
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|North Carolina |
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|5 |
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|Iris Westman<ref name=GRG/> |
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|align=center|F |
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|August 28, 1905 |
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|{{ayd|1905|8|28}} |
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|[[North Dakota]] |
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|North Dakota |
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|6 |
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|Lucille Treccase<ref name=GRG/> |
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|align=center|F |
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|October 18, 1905 |
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|{{ayd|1905|10|18}} |
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|[[Pennsylvania]] |
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|Pennsylvania |
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|7 |
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|Isabel Castaño Restrepo<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wopular.com/woman-living-miami-beach-turns-112-today|title=Woman living in Miami Beach turns 112 today|website=Wopular|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|January 11, 1906 |
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|{{ayd|1906|1|11}} |
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|[[Colombia]] |
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|[[Florida]] |
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|8 |
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|[[Richard Arvin Overton]]<ref name=GRG/> |
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|align=center|M |
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|May 11, 1906 |
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|{{ayd|1906|5|11}} |
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|[[Texas]] |
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|Texas |
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|9 |
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|Mazie Ford<ref name=GRG/> |
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|align=center|F |
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|June 28, 1906 |
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|{{ayd|1906|6|28}} |
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|Pennsylvania |
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|Florida |
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|- |
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|10 |
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|Reatha Robinson<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nbc12.com/story/38668231/hampstead-woman-celebrates-112th-birthday|title=Hampstead woman celebrates her 112th birthday|first=Frances|last=Weller|publisher=}} Retrieved 19 July 2018</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|July 17, 1906 |
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|{{ayd|1906|7|17}} |
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|(unknown) |
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|North Carolina |
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|11 |
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|Minnie Whicker<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/video/category/spoken-word-kovrtv/3703352-roseville-woman-celebrates-her-111th-birthday/|title=Roseville Woman Celebrates Her 111th Birthday|website=Sacramento.cbslocal.com|accessdate=2017-08-10}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|July 24, 1906 |
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|{{ayd|1906|7|24}} |
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|[[Arkansas]] |
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|Arkansas |
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|- |
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|12 |
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|Helen White<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scnow.com/news/pee_dee_weekly/article_f823f4bc-ad19-11e7-8536-efce8cd4a3ce.html|title=Legacy Foundation honors Marion County resident White on her 111th birthday|first=DIANNE POSTON OWENS|last=Correspondent|website=scnow.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|September 21, 1906 |
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|{{ayd|1906|9|21}} |
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|South Carolina |
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|South Carolina |
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|- |
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|13 |
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|Louise Schaaf<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abc7chicago.com/society/chicago-area-woman-celebrates-111th-birthday-/2539522/|title=Chicago area woman celebrates 111th birthday|publisher=abc7chicago.com}} 16 October 2017 Retrieved 20 October 2017</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|October 16, 1906 |
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|{{ayd|1906|10|16}} |
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|[[Germany]] |
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|[[Illinois]] |
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|- |
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|14 |
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|Beulah Meloche<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news05/beulah-meloche-still-going-strong-at-110-years-old-20161125|title=Beulah Meloche still going strong at 110 years old|publisher=Watertown Daily Times|author=Larry Robinson|date=2017-11-25|accessdate=2017-10-04}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|November 23, 1906 |
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|{{ayd|1906|11|23}} |
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|New York |
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|New York |
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|15 |
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|Ellen Goodwill<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/local/2018/02/02/calhoun-countys-oldest-known-woman-ellen-goodwill-turns-111-years-old/301099002/|title=Calhoun County's oldest known woman, Ellen Goodwill, turns 111 years old|website=battlecreekenquirer.com|accessdate=21 February 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|February 2, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|2|2}} |
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|[[Kentucky]] |
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|[[Michigan]] |
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|- |
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|16 |
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|[[Lillian Cox]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fox26houston.com/news/happy-110th-birthday-to-lillian-cox|title=Happy 110th Birthday to LIllian Cox!|first=|last=FOX|website=fox26houston.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|February 22, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|2|22}} |
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|Florida |
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|Texas |
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|- |
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|17 |
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|Icie Clark<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2017/04/05/110-years-old-ruddle-icie-birthday-reeds-creek-swissvale/stories/201704040073|title=Icie Clark celebrates birthday No. 110|website=post-gazette.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|March 19, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|3|19}} |
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|[[West Virginia]] |
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|Pennsylvania |
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|18 |
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|Helen Turner<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abc7ny.com/society/new-jersey-woman-celebrates-110th-birthday-on-april-fools-day/1830078/|title=New Jersey woman celebrates 110th birthday on April Fools' Day|date=April 2, 2017|website=abc7ny.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|April 1, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|4|1}} |
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|[[Maryland]] |
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|[[New Jersey]] |
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|19 |
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|Merle Phillips<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/04/02/merle-phillips-111-year-old-illinois-woman/|title=Merle Phillips On The Secret To Living 111 Years|date=2018-04-02|access-date=2018-04-04|language=en}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|April 2, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|4|2}} |
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|Arkansas |
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|Illinois |
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|20 |
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|Sixta Tulia Aguinaga de Posada<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/life/2016/04/27/good-life/83590356/|title=Good Life: Positive achievements for April 28|website=poughkeepsiejournal.com|accessdate=December 4, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dutchessny.gov/CountyGov/Departments/Aging/celebration-of-aging.htm|title=DUTCHESS COUNTY HONORS THE 2018 SENIORS OF THE YEAR|website=dutchessny.gov|date=21 May 2018|accessdate=July 20, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|April 22, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|4|22}} |
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|Colombia |
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|New York |
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|21 |
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|Voncile Drye<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/110-year-old-to-be-honored-at-grandmothers-gala-in-tampa_20180312042622863/1030561724 |title=110-year-old to be honored at Grandmothers Gala in Tampa |first=Rod |last=Carter |date=February 7, 2018 |website=[[WFLA-TV]] |accessdate=June 25, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-tampa/110-year-old-grandmother-being-honored-at-grandmothers-valentines-day-gala |title=110-year-old grandmother being honored at Grandmother's Valentine's Day Gala |first=Laura |last=Harris |date=February 7, 2018 |website=[[ABC Action News]] |accessdate=June 25, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|April 24, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|4|24}} |
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|Florida |
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|Florida |
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|22 |
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|Opal Goode<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news-ridgecrest.com/news/story.pl?id=0000007073|title=Still feelin’ ‘Goode’ after 110 years|website=news-ridgecrest.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news-ridgecrest.com/news/story.pl?id=0000008639|title=Opal celebrates 111 ’Goode’ years|website=news-ridgecrest.com|accessdate=20 July 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|June 3, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|6|3}} |
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|[[Oklahoma]] |
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|Oklahoma |
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|23 |
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|Florence Carroll<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.today.com/video/today-celebrates-milestone-birthdays-anniversaries-june-12-2017-965349443957 |title=TODAY celebrates milestone birthdays, anniversaries |date=June 12, 2017 |website=[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today]] |access-date=June 25, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|June 9, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|6|9}} |
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|New York |
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|[[Connecticut]] |
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|- |
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|24 |
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|Lona Collins<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wkyc.com/life/family/local-woman-beats-the-odds-turns-110/452507735|title=Local woman beats the odds, turns 110|website=wkyc.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|June 18, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|6|18}} |
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|Oklahoma |
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|Ohio |
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|- |
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|25 |
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|Evelyn Kleine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mynortheaster.com/news/at-110-long-life-is-in-the-cards-for-evelyn-kleine/|title=At 110, long life is in the cards for Evelyn Kleine – MyNortheaster.com|website=www.mynortheaster.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|July 11, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|7|11}} |
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|[[Minnesota]] |
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|Minnesota |
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|26 |
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|Hazel Schuth<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.moultrieobserver.com/news/ga_fl_news/moultrian-sinclaire-celebrates-years/article_033cbc7a-8138-11e7-acb9-037bd65353cb.html|title=Moultrian Sinclaire celebrates 110 years|first=Kevin Hall|last=kevin.hall@gaflnews.com|website=moultrieobserver.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|July 29, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|7|29}} |
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|Illinois |
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|[[Wisconsin]] |
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|27 |
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|Ethel Sinclaire<ref name="auto"/> |
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|align=center|F |
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|August 14, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|8|14}} |
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|Georgia |
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|Georgia |
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|28 |
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|Laura Oblitas<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.northjersey.com/story/life/2017/08/26/fair-lawn-woman-celebrates-110th-birthday/590511001/|title=Fair Lawn woman celebrates 110th birthday, may now be oldest N.J. resident|website=northjersey.com|accessdate=December 4, 2017}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|August 24, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|8|24}} |
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|New Jersey |
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|New Jersey |
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|29 |
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|C. P. Crawford<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abc7chicago.com/community-events/lansing-man-turns-110-years-old/2341769/?sf109393855=1|title=Lansing man turns 110 years old|date=August 25, 2017|website=abc7chicago.com|accessdate=December 4, 2017}}</ref> |
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|align=center|M |
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|August 25, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|8|25}} |
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|[[Mississippi]] |
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|Illinois |
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|30 |
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|Elizabeth Marazi<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-northampton-woman-110-birthday-20170829-story.html|title=For the record books: Northampton County woman celebrates 110th birthday|first=Kayla|last=Dwyer|website=mcall.com|accessdate=December 4, 2017}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|August 27, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|8|27}} |
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|[[Delaware]] |
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|Pennsylvania |
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|31 |
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|Dorothy Keller<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greensboro.com/life/celebrating-birthdays/article_529f47d8-3f67-5198-b847-6be35bb32bb1.html|title=Celebrating birthdays|first=Cindy|last=Loman|website=greensboro.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|September 28, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|9|28}} |
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|Delaware |
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|North Carolina |
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|32 |
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|Catena Cavallaro<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tapinto.net/articles/at-110-woman-bypasses-all-in-age-in-north-salem|title=At 110, Woman Bypasses All in Age in North Salem|website=tapinto.net|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|October 21, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|10|21}} |
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|[[Italy]] |
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|New York |
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|33 |
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|Bessie Hendricks<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.messengernews.net/news/local-news/2017/11/110-years-young/|title=110 years young - News, Sports, Jobs - Messenger News|website=www.messengernews.net|accessdate=December 4, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://whotv.com/2017/11/07/iowa-woman-celebrates-110th-birthday/|title=Iowa Woman Celebrates 110th Birthday|date=November 7, 2017|website=whotv.com|accessdate=December 4, 2017}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|November 7, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|11|7}} |
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|[[Iowa]] |
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|Iowa |
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|34 |
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|Hazel Eikermann<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kdvr.com/2018/01/09/hugo-woman-turns-110-years-old/|title=Hugo woman turns 110 years old|date=January 10, 2018|website=kdvr.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|December 11, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|12|11}} |
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|[[Kansas]] |
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|[[Colorado]] |
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|35 |
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|Katie Logemann<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.recordnet.com/article/20151215/NEWS/151219805|title=Finally a tame birthday celebration|first=Lori|last=Gilbert|website=recordnet.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|December 15, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|12|15}} |
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|Germany |
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|[[California]] |
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|36 |
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|Irene Dunham<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/05/11/bath-school-bombing-oldest-surviving-student-recalls-how-awful/101194330/|title=The Oldest bath school bombing surviving student complains how awful it was|website=lansingstatejournal.com|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|December 16, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|12|16}} |
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|Michigan |
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|Michigan |
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|37 |
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|Mildred Lewis<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wate.com/news/watercooler/florida-woman-celebrates-110th-birthday-on-christmas-day/888026860/|title=Estro woman celebrates her 110th birthday on chirstmas|website=wate.com|accessdate=January 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230004202/http://www.wate.com/news/watercooler/florida-woman-celebrates-110th-birthday-on-christmas-day/888026860|archive-date=December 30, 2017|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|December 25, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|12|25}} |
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|Florida |
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|Florida |
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|38 |
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|Elsada Miriam Duncan<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/local/110-year-old-milton-woman-honored-city/XqHF7yS0dxIRLVplh3QfcN/|title=110-year-old Milton woman to be honored by city|first=Mitchell|last=Northam|website=ajc|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|January 15, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|1|15}} |
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|[[Jamaica]] |
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|Georgia |
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|39 |
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|Stella Lennox<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/secret-to-living-110-years-old-kick-in-the-pants-stella-lennox--472760803.html|title=Secret to living 110 years old kick in the pants Stella Lennox|website=Nbcnewyork.com|accessdate=February 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|January 31, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|1|31}} |
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|North Dakota |
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|Illinois |
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|40 |
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|Edie Ceccarelli<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/general-news/20180208/mendocino-county-community-honors-willits-resident-edie-ceccarelli-on-her-110th-birthday|title=Mendocino County community honors Willits resident Edie Ceccarelli on her 110th birthday|website=ukiahdailyjournal.com|accessdate=February 20, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|February 5, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|2|5}} |
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|California |
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|California |
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|41 |
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|Rena Bagne<ref>{{cite news |url=http://thevalleyexpress.com/2018/03/03/ortonville-woman-celebrates-110th-birthday/ |title=Ortonville Woman Celebrates 110th Birthday |date=March 3, 2018 |newspaper=The Valley Express |accessdate=June 25, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|March 2, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|3|2}} |
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|[[Canada]] |
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|Minnesota |
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|42 |
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|Francis Smith<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.winknews.com/2018/03/03/naples-man-celebrates-110th-birthday-35th-wedding-anniversary/ |title=Naples man celebrates 110th birthday, 35th wedding anniversary |date=March 3, 2018 |website=winknews.com |accessdate=June 25, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|M |
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|March 3, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|3|3}} |
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|[[Maine]] |
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|Florida |
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|- |
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|43 |
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|Willie Mae Hardy<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.11alive.com/article/life/family/seniors/georgia-woman-turns-110-years-young/85-527947412|title=Georgia woman turns 110 years young|website= |
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11alive.com|accessdate=April 14, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|March 11, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|3|11}} |
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|Georgia |
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|Georgia |
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|- |
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|44 |
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|Goldie Small<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wbng.com/story/38187232/president-trump-honors-110-year-old-endwell-resident|title=President Trump honors 110-year-old Endwell resident|website=www.wbng.com|language=en-US|accessdate=May 21, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|April 1, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|4|1}} |
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|New York |
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|New York |
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|- |
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|45 |
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|Mary Johnson<ref>{{cite web|url=https://themissouritimes.com/28843/release-kceb-registers-first-time-voter-108th-birthday/|title=Release: KCEB registers a first time voter on her 108th birthday|website=themissouritimes.com|accessdate=July 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kansascity.com/living/health-fitness/article208247814.html|title=This Kansas City woman's birthday puts her in rare company worldwide|website=kansascity.com|accessdate=July 19, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|April 7, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|4|07}} |
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|Arkansas |
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|[[Missouri]] |
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|- |
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|46 |
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|Erna Zahn<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nujournal.com/news/local-news/2018/04/15/zahn-becomes-a-super-centenarian/|title=Zahn becomes a super centenarian {{!}} News, Sports, Jobs - The Journal|website=www.nujournal.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-15}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|April 14, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|4|14}} |
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|Wisconsin |
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|Minnesota |
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|- |
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|47 |
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|Avicia Thorpe<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/110-year-woman-shares-shes-forward/story?id=54616679|title=110-year-old woman shares what she's most looking forward to|website=www.abcnews.go.com|language=en-US|access-date=May 8, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|April 16, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|4|16}} |
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|Virginia |
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|Virginia |
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|- |
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|48 |
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|Gertrude Ellison<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.king5.com/article/life/puyallup-woman-celebrates-110th-birthday/281-552652247|title=Puyallup woman celebrates 110th birthday|website=king5.com|language=en-US|access-date=May 21, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|May 16, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|5|16}} |
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|North Dakota |
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|Washington |
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|- |
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|49 |
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|Irene VanBussum<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lakelandtimes55.1upprelaunch.com/main.asp?SectionID=14&SubSectionID=14&ArticleID=41990|title=celebrating 110 years|website=lakelandtimes55.1upprelaunch.com|accessdate=July 19, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|May 21, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|5|21}} |
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|(unknown) |
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|Wisconsin |
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|- |
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|50 |
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|Sun Choe<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mtlaurelsun.com/mt-laurel-resident-celebrates-110th-birthday-at-local-healthcare-center-52bd46c0c4f0|title=Mt. Laurel resident celebrates 110th birthday at local healthcare center|website=mtlaurelsun.com|accessdate=July 19, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|May 28, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|5|28}} |
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|[[South Korea]] |
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|New Jersey |
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|- |
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|51 |
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|Ruby Staley<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/instant/williamsport-resident-ruby-staley-reaches-years/article_2baff98a-6b82-11e8-97d2-578092611307.html|title=Williamsport resident Ruby Staley reaches 110 years|website=heraldmailmedia.com|accessdate=July 19, 2018}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|June 8, 1908 |
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|{{ayd|1908|6|08}} |
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|Maryland |
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|Maryland |
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|- |
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|} |
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===Living American emigrant supercentenarians=== |
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{|class=wikitable |
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!No. |
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!Name |
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!Sex |
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!Birth date |
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!Age as of {{date}} |
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!Birthplace |
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!Country of residence |
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|- |
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|1 |
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|Maria Branyas Morera<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.olot.tv/noticies/56512/|title=Compleix 110 anys la persona més gran de la Garrotxa|date=2017-03-04|work=Olot Televisió|access-date=2017-10-22|language=ca-ES}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|March 4, 1907 |
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|{{ayd|1907|03|04}} |
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|California |
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|[[Spain]] |
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|} |
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==100 oldest American people ever== |
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Below is a list of the longest lived American supercentenarians according to the GRG.<ref name="Validated living Supercentenarians">{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM |title=GRG Verified Supercentenarian Cases (As of July 8, 2013) |accessdate=July 14, 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grg.org%2FAdams%2FE.HTM&date=2007-12-01 |archivedate=December 1, 2007 |df=mdy }}</ref><br/> |
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{{legend2|#F9F9F9|Deceased|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} |
{{legend2|#F9F9F9|Deceased|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} |
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{{legend2|#99FF99|Living|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} |
{{legend2|#99FF99|Living|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} |
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<small> |
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†{{note|Age}} denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of {{date}} |
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</small> |
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{|class="wikitable sortable" |
{|class="wikitable sortable" |
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!Rank |
! scope="col" | Rank |
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!Name |
! scope="col" | Name |
||
!Sex |
! scope="col" | Sex |
||
!data-sort-type="date"|Birth date |
! scope="col" data-sort-type="date" | Birth date |
||
!data-sort-type="date"|Death date |
! scope="col" data-sort-type="date" | Death date |
||
! |
! scope="col" | Age |
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!Birthplace |
! scope="col" | Birthplace |
||
!Place of death or residence |
! scope="col" | Place of death <br/> or residence |
||
|- |
|- |
||
|1 |
| {{0}}1 |
||
|[[Sarah Knauss]]<ref name= |
| data-sort-value="Knauss" | [[Sarah Knauss]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|September 24, 1880 |
| September 24, 1880 |
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|December 30, 1999 |
| December 30, 1999 |
||
| {{ayd | September 24, 1880 | December 30, 1999}} |
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|119 years, 97 days |
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|[[Pennsylvania]] |
| [[Pennsylvania]] |
||
|Pennsylvania |
| Pennsylvania |
||
|- style="background:#9f9;" |
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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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| {{center|F}} |
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| March 4, 1907 |
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| Living |
|||
| {{ayd | March 4, 1907}} |
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| [[California]] |
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| [[Spain]] |
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|- |
|- |
||
| {{0}}3 |
|||
|2 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Welford" | Delphia Welford<ref name=GRG-2023/> |
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|[[Lucy Hannah]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| |
| September 9, 1875 |
||
| November 14, 1992 |
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|March 21, 1993 |
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| {{ayd | September 9, 1875 | November 14, 1992}} |
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|117 years, 248 days |
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|[[ |
| [[Mississippi]] |
||
|[[ |
| [[Tennessee]] |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| {{0}}4 |
|||
|3 |
|||
|[[Susannah Mushatt Jones]]<ref name=GRG/> |
| data-sort-value="Jones, Susannah" | [[Susannah Mushatt Jones]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|July 6, 1899 |
| July 6, 1899 |
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|May 12, 2016 |
| May 12, 2016 |
||
| {{ayd | July 6, 1899 | May 12, 2016}} |
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|116 years, 311 days |
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|Alabama |
| [[Alabama]] |
||
|[[New York (state)|New York]] |
| [[New York (state)|New York]] |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| {{0}}5 |
|||
|4 |
|||
| |
| data-sort-value="Weaver" | Gertrude Weaver<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|July 4, 1898 |
| July 4, 1898 |
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|April 6, 2015 |
| April 6, 2015 |
||
| nowrap | {{ayd | July 4, 1898 | April 6, 2015}} |
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|116 years, 276 days |
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|[[Arkansas]] |
| [[Arkansas]] |
||
|Arkansas |
| Arkansas |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| {{0}}6 |
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|5 |
|||
|[[Elizabeth Bolden]]<ref name= |
| data-sort-value="Bolden" | [[Elizabeth Bolden]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|August 15, 1890 |
| August 15, 1890 |
||
|December 11, 2006 |
| December 11, 2006 |
||
| {{ayd | August 15, 1890 | December 11, 2006}} |
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|116 years, 118 days |
|||
| |
| Tennessee |
||
|Tennessee |
| Tennessee |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| {{0}}7 |
|||
|6 |
|||
|[[Besse Cooper]]<ref name= |
| data-sort-value="Cooper" | [[Besse Cooper]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|August 26, 1896 |
| August 26, 1896 |
||
|December 4, 2012 |
| December 4, 2012 |
||
| {{ayd | August 26, 1896 | December 4, 2012}} |
|||
|116 years, 100 days |
|||
|Tennessee |
| Tennessee |
||
|[[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] |
| [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| {{0}}8 |
|||
|7 |
|||
|[[Jeralean Talley]]<ref name=GRG/> |
| data-sort-value="Talley" | [[Jeralean Talley]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|May 23, 1899 |
| May 23, 1899 |
||
|June 17, 2015 |
| June 17, 2015 |
||
| {{ayd | May 23, 1899 | June 17, 2015}} |
|||
|116 years, 25 days |
|||
|Georgia |
| Georgia |
||
|Michigan |
| [[Michigan]] |
||
|- |
|||
| {{0}}9 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Ceccarelli" | [[Edith Ceccarelli]]<ref name=2024-Deaths/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| February 5, 1908 |
|||
| 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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| {{ayd | February 5, 1908 | February 22, 2024}} |
|||
| California |
|||
| California |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 10 |
||
|[[Maggie Barnes |
| 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}} |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|March 6, 1882 |
| March 6, 1882 |
||
|January 19, 1998 |
| January 19, 1998 |
||
| {{ayd | March 6, 1882 | January 19, 1998}} |
|||
|115 years, 319 days |
|||
|[[North Carolina]] |
| [[North Carolina]] |
||
|North Carolina |
| North Carolina |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 11 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Manfredini" | Dina Manfredini<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|April 4, 1897 |
| April 4, 1897 |
||
|December 17, 2012 |
| December 17, 2012 |
||
| {{ayd | April 4, 1897 | December 17, 2012}} |
|||
|115 years, 257 days |
|||
|[[Italy]] |
| [[Italy]] |
||
|[[Iowa]] |
| [[Iowa]] |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 12 |
||
|[[Christian Mortensen]]<ref name= |
| data-sort-value="Mortensen" | [[Christian Mortensen]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
||
| |
| {{center|M}} |
||
|August 16, 1882 |
| August 16, 1882 |
||
|April 25, 1998 |
| April 25, 1998 |
||
| {{ayd | August 16, 1882 | April 25, 1998}} |
|||
|115 years, 252 days |
|||
|[[Denmark]] |
| [[Denmark]] |
||
| |
| California |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 13 |
||
| data-sort-value="Ford" | Hester Ford<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[Edna Parker]]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2008">{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/Deaths2008.HTM|title=Wayback Machine|date=June 10, 2011|website=Grg.org|accessdate=August 10, 2017|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610165926/http://www.grg.org/Adams/Deaths2008.HTM|archivedate=June 10, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| August 15, 1905 |
|||
|April 20, 1893 |
|||
| 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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|November 26, 2008 |
|||
| {{ayd | August 15, 1905 | April 17, 2021}} |
|||
|115 years, 220 days |
|||
|[[ |
| [[South Carolina]] |
||
| North Carolina |
|||
|Indiana |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 14 |
||
| data-sort-value="Parker" | [[Edna Parker]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[Margaret Skeete]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| April 20, 1893 |
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|October 27, 1878 |
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| November 26, 2008 |
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|May 7, 1994 |
|||
| {{ayd | April 20, 1893 | November 26, 2008}} |
|||
|115 years, 192 days |
|||
|[[ |
| [[Indiana]] |
||
| Indiana |
|||
|[[Virginia]] |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 15 |
||
| data-sort-value="Skeete" | Margaret Skeete<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|[[Bernice Madigan]] |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| October 27, 1878 |
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|July 24, 1899 |
|||
| May 7, 1994 |
|||
|January 3, 2015 |
|||
| {{ayd | October 27, 1878 | May 7, 1994}} |
|||
|115 years, 163 days |
|||
|[[ |
| [[Texas]] |
||
| [[Virginia]] |
|||
|Massachusetts |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 16 |
||
| data-sort-value="Madigan" | Bernice Madigan<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[Gertrude Baines]]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2009">{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/Deaths2009.HTM|title=GRG Deaths for 2009 (in Chronological Order) (as of December 24, 2010)|accessdate=May 30, 2011}}</ref> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| July 24, 1899 |
|||
|April 6, 1894 |
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| January 3, 2015 |
|||
|September 11, 2009 |
|||
| {{ayd | July 24, 1899 | January 3, 2015}} |
|||
|115 years, 158 days |
|||
| [[Massachusetts]] |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
| Massachusetts |
|||
|California |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 17 |
||
| data-sort-value="Baines" | Gertrude Baines<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[#Bettie Wilson|Bettie Wilson]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| April 6, 1894 |
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|September 13, 1890 |
|||
| September 11, 2009 |
|||
|February 13, 2006 |
|||
| {{ayd | April 6, 1894 | September 11, 2009}} |
|||
|115 years, 153 days |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|[[Mississippi]] |
|||
| California |
|||
|Mississippi |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 18 |
||
| data-sort-value="Wilson" | [[#Bettie Wilson|Bettie Wilson]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|[[Susie Gibson]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| |
| September 13, 1890 |
||
|February |
| February 13, 2006 |
||
| {{ayd | September 13, 1890 | February 13, 2006}} |
|||
|115 years, 108 days |
|||
|Mississippi |
| Mississippi |
||
| Mississippi |
|||
|Alabama |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 19 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Westman" | Iris Westman<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|August |
| August 28, 1905 |
||
| 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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|October 21, 1986 |
|||
| {{ayd | August 28, 1905 | January 3, 2021}} |
|||
|115 years, 79 days |
|||
| [[North Dakota]] |
|||
|[[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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| North Dakota |
|||
|[[Missouri]] |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 20 |
||
| data-sort-value="Gaudette" | [[Marie-Josephine Gaudette]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[Maude Farris-Luse]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| March 25, 1902 |
|||
|January 21, 1887 |
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| July 13, 2017 |
|||
|March 18, 2002 |
|||
| {{ayd | March 25, 1902 | July 13, 2017}} |
|||
|115 years, 56 days |
|||
| [[New Hampshire]] |
|||
|Michigan |
|||
| Italy |
|||
|Michigan |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| rowspan=2 | 21 |
|||
|19 |
|||
| |
| data-sort-value="Gibson, Susie" | Susie Gibson<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| October 31, 1890 |
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|May 19, 1900 |
|||
| February 16, 2006 |
|||
|June 2, 2015 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | October 31, 1890 | February 16, 2006}} |
|||
|115 years, 14 days |
|||
| Mississippi |
|||
|[[Puerto Rico]] |
|||
| Alabama |
|||
|[[Florida]] |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| data-sort-value="Sutcliffe" | Thelma Sutcliffe<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|20 |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|[[#Mary Bidwell|Mary Bidwell]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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| October 1, 1906 |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| 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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|May 19, 1881 |
|||
| [[Nebraska]] |
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|April 25, 1996 |
|||
| Nebraska |
|||
|114 years, 342 days |
|||
|[[Connecticut]] |
|||
|Connecticut |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 23 |
||
| data-sort-value="Kern" | Edna Kern<ref name=GRG-2023/> |
|||
|[[Mary Josephine Ray]]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2010">{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/Deaths2010.HTM|title=GRG Deaths for 2010 (in Chronological Order) (as of May 29, 2011)|accessdate=May 30, 2011}}</ref> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| October 14, 1900 |
|||
|May 17, 1895 |
|||
| January 20, 2016 |
|||
|March 7, 2010 |
|||
| {{ayd | October 14, 1900 | January 20, 2016}} |
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|114 years, 294 days |
|||
| California |
|||
|[[Canada]] |
|||
|[[ |
| [[Nevada]] |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 24 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Holtz" | Augusta Holtz<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| August 3, 1871 |
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|October 30, 1900 |
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| October 21, 1986 |
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|August 16, 2015 |
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| {{ayd | August 3, 1871 | October 21, 1986}} |
|||
|114 years, 290 days |
|||
|[[ |
| [[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]].}} |
||
| [[Missouri]] |
|||
|New York |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 25 |
||
| data-sort-value="Hendricks" | Bessie Hendricks<ref name=2023-Deaths/> |
|||
|[[Delphine Gibson]]<ref name=GRG/> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| November 7, 1907 |
|||
|August 17, 1903 |
|||
| 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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|May 9, 2018 |
|||
| {{ayd | November 7, 1907 | January 3, 2023}} |
|||
|114 years, 265 days |
|||
| Iowa |
|||
|[[South Carolina]] |
|||
| Iowa |
|||
|Pennsylvania |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 26 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Wiggins" | Easter Wiggins<ref name=GRG-2020/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| June 1, 1875 |
|||
|August 3, 1895 |
|||
| |
| July 7, 1990 |
||
| {{ayd | June 1, 1875 | July 7, 1990}} |
|||
|114 years, 246 days |
|||
| Mississippi |
|||
|Iowa |
|||
| Mississippi |
|||
|Iowa |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 27 |
||
| 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> |
|||
|[[Blanche Cobb]] |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| February 21, 1887 |
|||
|September 8, 1900 |
|||
| |
| March 18, 2002 |
||
| {{ayd | February 21, 1887 | March 18, 2002}} |
|||
|114 years, 235 days |
|||
| Michigan |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
| Michigan |
|||
|Florida |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 28 |
||
| data-sort-value="Rivera" | Antonia Gerena Rivera<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[Mathew Beard]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| |
| May 19, 1900 |
||
| June 2, 2015 |
|||
|February 16, 1985 |
|||
| {{ayd | May 19, 1900 | June 2, 2015}} |
|||
|114 years, 222 days |
|||
| [[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>}} |
|||
|Virginia |
|||
|Florida |
| [[Florida]] |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 29 |
||
| 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> |
|||
|Carrie Lazenby<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| |
| May 9, 1881 |
||
| |
| April 25, 1996 |
||
| {{ayd | May 9, 1881 | April 25, 1996}} |
|||
|114 years, 218 days |
|||
| [[Connecticut]] |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
| Connecticut |
|||
|[[Illinois]] |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 30 |
||
| data-sort-value="Plummer" | Hazel Plummer<ref name=2023-Deaths/> |
|||
|Myrtle Dorsey<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| June 19, 1908 |
|||
|November 22, 1885 |
|||
| 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> |
|||
|June 25, 2000 |
|||
| {{ayd | June 19, 1908 | May 25, 2023}} |
|||
|114 years, 216 days |
|||
| Massachusetts |
|||
|[[Ohio]] |
|||
| Massachusetts |
|||
|Ohio |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 31 |
||
| data-sort-value="Burks" | Ophelia Burks<ref name=GRG-Historical/> |
|||
|[[Walter Breuning]]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2011">{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/Deaths2011.HTM|title=GRG Deaths in 2011|work=Gerontology Research Group}}</ref> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| October 25, 1903 |
|||
|September 21, 1896 |
|||
| September 27, 2018 |
|||
|April 14, 2011 |
|||
| {{ayd | October 25, 1903 | September 27, 2018}} |
|||
|114 years, 205 days |
|||
|[[ |
| [[Louisiana]] |
||
| Louisiana |
|||
|[[Montana]] |
|||
|- style="background:#9f9;" |
|||
| style="background:#f9f9f9;" | 32 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Francis" | [[Elizabeth Francis]]<ref name=WSRL/> |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
| July 25, 1909 |
|||
| Living |
|||
| {{ayd | July 25, 1909}} |
|||
| Louisiana |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 33 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Ray" | Mary Josephine Ray<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| |
| May 17, 1895 |
||
| March 7, 2010 |
|||
|January 31, 2011 |
|||
| {{ayd | May 17, 1895 | March 7, 2010}} |
|||
|114 years, 195 days |
|||
|[[ |
| [[Canada]] |
||
| New Hampshire |
|||
|Texas |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 34 |
||
| data-sort-value="Steinberg" | Goldie Steinberg<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[Grace Clawson]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| October 30, 1900 |
|||
|November 15, 1887 |
|||
| August 16, 2015 |
|||
|May 28, 2002 |
|||
| {{ayd | October 30, 1900 | August 16, 2015}} |
|||
|114 years, 194 days |
|||
| [[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.}} |
|||
|[[United Kingdom]] |
|||
|New York |
| New York |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| 35 |
|||
|rowspan=2|32 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Gibson, Delphine" | Delphine Gibson<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[#Wilhelmina Kott|Wilhelmina Kott]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| August 17, 1903 |
|||
|March 7, 1880 |
|||
| May 9, 2018 |
|||
|September 6, 1994 |
|||
| {{ayd | August 17, 1903 | May 9, 2018}} |
|||
|114 years, 183 days |
|||
| South Carolina |
|||
|Illinois |
|||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
|Illinois |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| 36 |
|||
|[[Adelina Domingues]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| 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> |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|February 19, 1888 |
|||
| April 15, 1875 |
|||
|August 21, 2002 |
|||
| December 28, 1989 |
|||
|114 years, 183 days |
|||
| {{ayd | April 15, 1875 | December 28, 1989}} |
|||
|[[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.}} |
|||
| Virginia |
|||
|California |
|||
| North Carolina |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 37 |
||
| data-sort-value="Morris" | Neva Morris<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[#Charlotte Benkner|Charlotte Benkner]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| August 3, 1895 |
|||
|November 26, 1889 |
|||
| |
| April 6, 2010 |
||
| {{ayd | August 3, 1895 | April 6, 2010}} |
|||
|114 years, 180 days |
|||
| Iowa |
|||
|[[Germany]] |
|||
| Iowa |
|||
|Ohio |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 38 |
||
| data-sort-value="Cobb" | Blanche Cobb<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[#Ettie Mae Greene|Ettie Mae Greene]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|September 8, |
| September 8, 1900 |
||
| May 1, 2015 |
|||
|February 26, 1992 |
|||
| {{ayd | September 8, 1900 | May 1, 2015}} |
|||
|114 years, 171 days |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|[[West Virginia]] |
|||
| Florida |
|||
|West Virginia |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 39 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Mangold" | Mila Mangold<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| November 14, 1907 |
|||
|May 12, 1901 |
|||
| 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> |
|||
|October 11, 2015 |
|||
| {{ayd | November 14, 1907 | July 2, 2022}} |
|||
|114 years, 152 days |
|||
| Nebraska |
|||
|[[Mexico]] |
|||
|California |
| California |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 40 |
||
| 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> |
|||
|Irene Frank<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| November 20, 1885 |
|||
|October 1, 1881 |
|||
| June 25, 2000 |
|||
|February 28, 1996 |
|||
| {{ayd | November 20, 1885 | June 25, 2000}} |
|||
|114 years, 150 days |
|||
| [[Ohio]] |
|||
|Texas |
|||
| Ohio |
|||
|Missouri |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 41 |
||
| 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> |
|||
|Olivia Patricia Thomas<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2009" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| February 9, 1882 |
|||
|June 29, 1895 |
|||
| September 4, 1996 |
|||
|November 16, 2009 |
|||
| {{ayd | February 9, 1882 | September 4, 1996}} |
|||
|114 years, 140 days |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|Iowa |
|||
| [[Illinois]] |
|||
|New York |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 42 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Breuning" | [[Walter Breuning]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|M}} |
||
| September 21, 1896 |
|||
|March 5, 1900 |
|||
| April 14, 2011 |
|||
|July 1, 2014 |
|||
| {{ayd | September 21, 1896 | April 14, 2011}} |
|||
|114 years, 118 days |
|||
| [[Minnesota]] |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
| [[Montana]] |
|||
|Pennsylvania |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| 43 |
|||
|rowspan=2|40 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Sanborn" | Eunice Sanborn<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[#Emma Verona Johnston|Emma Verona Johnston]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| July 20, 1896 |
|||
|August 6, 1890 |
|||
| January 31, 2011 |
|||
|December 1, 2004 |
|||
| {{ayd | July 20, 1896 | January 31, 2011}} |
|||
|114 years, 117 days |
|||
| Louisiana |
|||
|Iowa |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|Ohio |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| 44 |
|||
|Mamie Rearden |
|||
| data-sort-value="Clawson" | Grace Clawson<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|September 7, 1898 |
|||
| November 15, 1887 |
|||
|January 2, 2013 |
|||
| May 28, 2002 |
|||
|114 years, 117 days |
|||
| {{ayd | November 15, 1887 | May 28, 2002}} |
|||
|South Carolina |
|||
| [[United Kingdom]] |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
| New York |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| rowspan=2 | 45 |
|||
|42 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Kott" | Wilhelmina Kott<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|Bettie Chatmon<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| March 7, 1880 |
|||
|April 30, 1884 |
|||
| September 6, 1994 |
|||
|August 16, 1998 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | March 7, 1880 | September 6, 1994}} |
|||
|114 years, 108 days |
|||
| Illinois |
|||
|Louisiana |
|||
| Illinois |
|||
|Texas |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| data-sort-value="Domingues" | Adelina Domingues<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|43 |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|Odie Matthews<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| February 19, 1888 |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| August 21, 2002 |
|||
|December 28, 1878 |
|||
| [[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.}} |
|||
|April 14, 1993 |
|||
| California |
|||
|114 years, 107 days |
|||
|Texas |
|||
|[[Arizona]] |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| 47 |
|||
|rowspan=2|44 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Mirigian" | Lucy Mirigian<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[#Florence Knapp|Florence Knapp]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| August 15, 1906 |
|||
|October 10, 1873 |
|||
| February 12, 2021 |
|||
|January 11, 1988 |
|||
| {{ayd | August 15, 1906 | February 12, 2021}} |
|||
|114 years, 93 days |
|||
| [[Armenia]]{{efn|Mirigian was born in Armenia, then part of the [[Ottoman Empire]].}} |
|||
|Pennsylvania |
|||
| California |
|||
|Pennsylvania |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| 48 |
|||
||[[#Elena Slough|Elena Slough]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| data-sort-value="Benkner" | [[#Charlotte Benkner|Charlotte Benkner]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|July 4, 1889 |
|||
| November 16, 1889 |
|||
|October 5, 2003 |
|||
| May 14, 2004 |
|||
|114 years, 93 days |
|||
| {{ayd | November 16, 1889 | May 14, 2004}} |
|||
|Pennsylvania |
|||
|[[ |
| [[Germany]] |
||
| Ohio |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 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> |
|||
|Mary Anna Boone<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| September 19, 1877 |
|||
|February 10, 1887 |
|||
| February 26, 1992 |
|||
|May 13, 2001 |
|||
| {{ayd | September 19, 1877 | February 26, 1992}} |
|||
|114 years, 92 days |
|||
|[[ |
| [[West Virginia]] |
||
| West Virginia |
|||
|Kentucky |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 50 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Velasco" | Dominga Velasco<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| May 12, 1901 |
|||
|October 31, 1897 |
|||
| October 11, 2015 |
|||
|January 24, 2012 |
|||
| {{ayd | May 12, 1901 | October 11, 2015}} |
|||
|114 years, 85 days |
|||
|[[ |
| [[Mexico]] |
||
| California |
|||
|[[Oregon]] |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 51 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Frank" | Irene Frank<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| October 1, 1881 |
|||
|August 21, 1903 |
|||
| February 28, 1996 |
|||
|November 10, 2017 |
|||
| {{ayd | October 1, 1881 | February 28, 1996}} |
|||
|114 years, 81 days |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
| Missouri |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 52 |
||
| data-sort-value="Jordan" | Georgia Ella Jordan<ref name=GRG-2024/> |
|||
|[[Maggie Renfro]]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2010"/> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| September 18, 1880 |
|||
|November 14, 1895 |
|||
| February 9, 1995 |
|||
|January 22, 2010 |
|||
| {{ayd | September 18, 1880 | February 9, 1995}} |
|||
|114 years, 69 days |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|Louisiana |
|||
| Virginia |
|||
|Louisiana |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
|rowspan=2| |
| rowspan=2 | 53 |
||
| data-sort-value="Thomas, Olivia" | Olivia Patricia Thomas<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[Emma Tillman]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| June 29, 1895 |
|||
|November 22, 1892 |
|||
| November 16, 2009 |
|||
|January 28, 2007 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | June 29, 1895 | November 16, 2009}} |
|||
|114 years, 67 days |
|||
| Iowa |
|||
|North Carolina |
|||
| New York |
|||
|Connecticut |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Murphy" | Alelia Murphy<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| July 6, 1905 |
|||
|October 15, 1900 |
|||
| November 23, 2019 |
|||
|December 21, 2014 |
|||
| North Carolina |
|||
|114 years, 67 days |
|||
| New York |
|||
|Iowa |
|||
|Minnesota |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 55 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Dunham" | Irene Dunham<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| December 16, 1907 |
|||
|February 1, 1898 |
|||
| 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> |
|||
|April 1, 2012 |
|||
| {{ayd | December 16, 1907 | May 1, 2022}} |
|||
|114 years, 60 days |
|||
| Michigan |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
| Michigan |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| rowspan=2 | 56 |
|||
|53 |
|||
| |
| data-sort-value="Willis" | Nina Willis<ref name=2023-Deaths/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| January 14, 1909 |
|||
|December 12, 1902 |
|||
| 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> |
|||
|February 5, 2017 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | January 14, 1909 | May 17, 2023}} |
|||
|114 years, 55 days |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|New Jersey |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|New Jersey |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| data-sort-value="Berg" | [[Pearl Berg]]<ref name=2024-Deaths/> |
|||
|rowspan=2|54 |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|Naomi Conner<ref name=GRG/> |
|||
| October 1, 1909 |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| 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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|August 30, 1899 |
|||
| Indiana |
|||
|October 18, 2013 |
|||
| California |
|||
|114 years, 49 days |
|||
|Texas <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Worlds-Fifth-Oldest-Person-Turns-114-In-Central-Texas-221834761.html|title=World’s Fifth Oldest Person Turns 114 In Central Texas|publisher=KWTX.com|date=August 30, 2013|accessdate=January 24, 2016|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131024753/http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Worlds-Fifth-Oldest-Person-Turns-114-In-Central-Texas-221834761.html|archivedate=January 31, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> |
|||
|Texas |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| 58 |
|||
|Ora Holland<ref name=GRG/> |
|||
| data-sort-value="Henderson" | Anna Henderson<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|December 24, 1900 |
|||
| March 5, 1900 |
|||
|February 11, 2015 |
|||
| |
| July 1, 2014 |
||
| {{ayd | March 5, 1900 | July 1, 2014}} |
|||
|Missouri |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|[[Oklahoma]] |
|||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| rowspan=3 | 59 |
|||
|56 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Johnston" | [[#Emma Verona Johnston|Emma Verona Johnston]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|[[#Grace Thaxton|Grace Thaxton]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| August 6, 1890 |
|||
|June 18, 1891 |
|||
| December 1, 2004 |
|||
|July 6, 2005 |
|||
| rowspan=3 | {{ayd | August 6, 1890 | December 1, 2004}} |
|||
|114 years, 18 days |
|||
| |
| Iowa |
||
| Ohio |
|||
|Kentucky |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| data-sort-value="Rearden" | Mamie Rearden<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|57 |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|[[Soledad Mexia]]<ref name=GRG/> |
|||
| September 7, 1898 |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| January 2, 2013 |
|||
|August 13, 1899 |
|||
| South Carolina |
|||
|August 30, 2013 |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|114 years, 17 days |
|||
|Mexico |
|||
|California |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| data-sort-value="Zahn" | Erna Zahn<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|58 |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|Minnie Ward<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| April 14, 1908 |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| 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> |
|||
|November 19, 1885 |
|||
| [[Wisconsin]] |
|||
|December 2, 1999 |
|||
| Minnesota |
|||
|114 years, 13 days |
|||
|Tennessee |
|||
|Massachusetts |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| rowspan=2 | 62 |
|||
|59 |
|||
| |
| data-sort-value="Chatmon" | Bettie Chatmon<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| April 30, 1884 |
|||
|March 13, 1894 |
|||
| August 16, 1998 |
|||
|March 22, 2008 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | April 30, 1884 | August 16, 1998}} |
|||
|114 years, 9 days |
|||
| Louisiana |
|||
|Texas |
|||
|Texas |
| Texas |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| data-sort-value="Brown" | Lessie Brown<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|60 |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|Catherine Hagel<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2008" /> |
|||
| September 22, 1904 |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| January 8, 2019 |
|||
|November 28, 1894 |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|December 6, 2008 |
|||
| Ohio |
|||
|114 years, 8 days |
|||
|Minnesota |
|||
|Minnesota |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 64 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Matthews" | Odie Matthews<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| December 28, 1878 |
|||
|October 22, 1901 |
|||
| April 14, 1993 |
|||
|October 25, 2015 |
|||
| {{ayd | December 28, 1878 | April 14, 1993}} |
|||
|114 years, 3 days |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|[[Washington (state)|Washington]] |
|||
| [[Arizona]] |
|||
| Washington |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| rowspan=2 | 65 |
|||
|62 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Knapp" | Florence Knapp<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|[[Fred H. Hale, Sr.|Fred Hale]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| October 10, 1873 |
|||
|December 1, 1890 |
|||
| January 11, 1988 |
|||
|November 19, 2004 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | October 10, 1873 | January 11, 1988}} |
|||
|113 years, 354 days |
|||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
|Maine |
|||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
|New York |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| data-sort-value="Slough" | Elena Slough<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|rowspan=2|63 |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|Miriam Carpelan<ref name="GRG200">{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/BB200.HTM|title=Validated Supercentenarian Cases (Public List) as of Oct. 6, 2009|work=Gerontology Research Group|accessdate=May 31, 2011}}</ref> |
|||
| July 4, 1889 |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| October 5, 2003 |
|||
|July 8, 1882 |
|||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
|June 22, 1996 |
|||
| [[New Jersey]] |
|||
|113 years, 350 days |
|||
|United Kingdom |
|||
|California |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| 67 |
|||
|[[Elsie Thompson]]<ref name=GRG/> |
|||
| data-sort-value="Boone" | Mary Anna Boone<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|April 5, 1899 |
|||
| February 10, 1887 |
|||
|March 21, 2013 |
|||
| May 13, 2001 |
|||
|113 years, 350 days |
|||
| {{ayd | February 10, 1887 | May 13, 2001}} |
|||
|Pennsylvania |
|||
| [[Kentucky]] |
|||
|Florida |
|||
| Kentucky |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 68 |
||
| data-sort-value="Whicker" | Minnie Whicker<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[Bertha Fry]]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2007">[http://www.grg.org/Adams/Deaths2007.HTM GRG Deaths for 2007 (in Chronological Order) (As of February 4, 2011)] Retrieved May 31, 2011.</ref> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| July 24, 1906 |
|||
|December 1, 1893 |
|||
| October 22, 2020 |
|||
|November 14, 2007 |
|||
| {{ayd | July 24, 1906 | October 22, 2020}} |
|||
|113 years, 348 days |
|||
| Arkansas |
|||
|Indiana |
|||
| California |
|||
|Indiana |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 69 |
||
| data-sort-value="Kollar" | Delma Kollar<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[#Mae Harrington|Mae Harrington]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| October 31, 1897 |
|||
|January 20, 1889 |
|||
| January 24, 2012 |
|||
|December 29, 2002 |
|||
| {{ayd | October 31, 1897 | January 24, 2012}} |
|||
|113 years, 343 days |
|||
| [[Kansas]] |
|||
|New York |
|||
| [[Oregon]] |
|||
|New York |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 70 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Jones, Ila" | Ila Jones<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| August 21, 1903 |
|||
|March 30, 1896 |
|||
| November 10, 2017 |
|||
|March 7, 2010 |
|||
| {{ayd | August 21, 1903 | November 10, 2017}} |
|||
|113 years, 342 days |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|Tennessee |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|Michigan |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 71 |
||
| data-sort-value="Renfro" | Maggie Renfro<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|Agatha Mitchell<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| November 14, 1895 |
|||
|March 26, 1887 |
|||
| January 22, 2010 |
|||
|February 25, 2001 |
|||
| {{ayd | November 14, 1895 | January 22, 2010}} |
|||
|113 years, 336 days |
|||
| Louisiana |
|||
|Virginia |
|||
| Louisiana |
|||
|Virginia |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| rowspan=2 | 72 |
|||
|69 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Tillman" | [[Emma Tillman]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|[[Goldie Michelson]] |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| November 22, 1892 |
|||
|August 8, 1902 |
|||
| January 28, 2007 |
|||
|July 8, 2016 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | November 22, 1892 | January 28, 2007}} |
|||
|113 years, 335 days |
|||
| North Carolina |
|||
|[[Ukraine]]{{efn|Michelson was born in a part of Ukraine, which was then part of the Russian Empire.}} |
|||
| Connecticut |
|||
|Massachusetts |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| data-sort-value="Stoehr" | [[Anna Stoehr]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|70 |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|Clara Huhn<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| October 15, 1900 |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| December 21, 2014 |
|||
|January 28, 1887 |
|||
| Iowa |
|||
|December 20, 2000 |
|||
| Minnesota |
|||
|113 years, 327 days |
|||
|[[Nebraska]] |
|||
|California |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 74 |
||
| data-sort-value="Denmark" | [[Leila Denmark]]<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|[[Corinne Dixon Taylor]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| February 1, 1898 |
|||
|April 2, 1893 |
|||
| April 1, 2012 |
|||
|February 14, 2007 |
|||
| {{ayd | February 1, 1898 | April 1, 2012}} |
|||
|113 years, 318 days |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|[[District of Columbia]] |
|||
| Georgia |
|||
|District of Columbia |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 75 |
||
| data-sort-value="Dunlap" | Adele Dunlap<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|[[#Mary Christian|Mary Christian]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{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> |
|||
|April 20, 2003 |
|||
| {{ayd | December 12, 1902 | February 5, 2017}} |
|||
|113 years, 312 days |
|||
| New Jersey |
|||
|Massachusetts |
|||
| New Jersey |
|||
|California |
|||
|-bgcolor=99FF99 |
|||
|bgcolor=F9F9F9|73 |
|||
|Lessie Brown<ref name=GRG/> |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
|September 22, 1904 |
|||
|Living |
|||
|{{ayd|1904|9|22}} |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
|Living in Ohio |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| rowspan=2 | 76 |
|||
|74 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Conner" | Naomi Conner<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|[[1906 San Francisco earthquake#Centennial commemorations|Ruth Newman]]<ref name=GRG/> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| August 30, 1899 |
|||
|September 23, 1901 |
|||
| October 18, 2013 |
|||
|July 29, 2015 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | August 30, 1899 | October 18, 2013}} |
|||
|113 years, 309 days |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|California |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|California |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| data-sort-value="Holland" | Ora Holland<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|75 |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|[[Evelyn Kozak]]<ref name=GRG/> |
|||
| December 24, 1900 |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| February 11, 2015 |
|||
|August 14, 1899 |
|||
| Missouri |
|||
|June 11, 2013 |
|||
| [[Oklahoma]] |
|||
|113 years, 301 days |
|||
|New York |
|||
|New York |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 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> |
|||
|Louisiana Hines<ref name=GRG/> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| December 18, 1877 |
|||
|April 13, 1899 |
|||
| January 24, 1992 |
|||
|February 1, 2013 |
|||
| {{ayd | December 18, 1877 | January 24, 1992}} |
|||
|113 years, 294 days |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|Alabama |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|Michigan |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 79 |
||
| data-sort-value="Goodwill" | Ellen Goodwill<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|Mississippi Winn<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2011"/> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| February 2, 1907 |
|||
|March 31, 1897 |
|||
| 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> |
|||
|January 14, 2011 |
|||
| {{ayd | February 2, 1907 | March 2, 2021}} |
|||
|113 years, 289 days |
|||
| Kentucky |
|||
|Louisiana |
|||
| Michigan |
|||
|Louisiana |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 80 |
||
| data-sort-value="Thaxton" | Grace Thaxton<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|Fannie Thomas<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| June 18, 1891 |
|||
|April 14, 1867 |
|||
| July 6, 2005 |
|||
|January 22, 1981 |
|||
| {{ayd | June 18, 1891 | July 6, 2005}} |
|||
|113 years, 283 days |
|||
| New York |
|||
|Illinois |
|||
| Kentucky |
|||
|California |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 81 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Mexia" | Soledad Mexia<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| |
| August 13, 1899 |
||
| August 30, 2013 |
|||
|October 20, 2014 |
|||
| {{ayd | August 13, 1899 | August 30, 2013}} |
|||
|113 years, 280 days |
|||
| Mexico |
|||
|Oklahoma |
|||
|California |
| California |
||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 82 |
||
| data-sort-value="Ward" | Minnie Ward<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|Johnson Parks<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| November 19, 1885 |
|||
|October 15, 1884 |
|||
| December 2, 1999 |
|||
|July 17, 1998 |
|||
| {{ayd | November 19, 1885 | December 2, 1999}} |
|||
|113 years, 275 days |
|||
| Tennessee |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
| Massachusetts |
|||
|Florida |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 83 |
||
| data-sort-value="Ewing" | Arbella Ewing<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|Mary Parr<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| March 13, 1894 |
|||
|January 29, 1889 |
|||
| March 22, 2008 |
|||
|October 29, 2002 |
|||
| {{ayd | March 13, 1894 | March 22, 2008}} |
|||
|113 years, 273 days |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|Indiana |
|||
| Texas |
|||
|Florida |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 84 |
||
| data-sort-value="Hagel" | Catherine Hagel<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|Beatrice Farve<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2009" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| November 28, 1894 |
|||
|April 30, 1895 |
|||
| December 6, 2008 |
|||
|January 19, 2009 |
|||
| {{ayd | November 28, 1894 | December 6, 2008}} |
|||
|113 years, 264 days |
|||
| Minnesota |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
| Minnesota |
|||
|Georgia |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 85 |
||
| data-sort-value="Otis" | Emma Otis<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
|||
|Amalia Barone<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
|October |
| October 22, 1901 |
||
| October 25, 2015 |
|||
|June 26, 1998 |
|||
| {{ayd | October 22, 1901 | October 25, 2015}} |
|||
|113 years, 263 days |
|||
| [[Washington (state)|Washington]] |
|||
|Italy |
|||
| Washington |
|||
|Connecticut |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 86 |
||
| data-sort-value="Hale" | Fred H. Hale, Sr.<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|Zora Wriggle<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|M}} |
||
| December 1, 1890 |
|||
|February 24, 1880 |
|||
|November |
| November 19, 2004 |
||
| {{ayd | December 1, 1890 | November 19, 2004}} |
|||
|113 years, 256 days |
|||
| [[Maine]] |
|||
|Pennsylvania |
|||
| New York |
|||
|Pennsylvania |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| rowspan=2 | 87 |
|||
|85 |
|||
| data-sort-value="Carpelan" | Miriam Carpelan<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|[[John Ingram McMorran]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| |
| July 8, 1882 |
||
| June 22, 1996 |
|||
|February 24, 2003 |
|||
| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | July 8, 1882 | June 22, 1996}} |
|||
|113 years, 250 days |
|||
| United Kingdom |
|||
|Michigan |
|||
| California |
|||
|Florida |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| data-sort-value="Thompson" | [[Elsie Thompson]]<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|86 |
|||
| {{center|F}} |
|||
|Mary McKinney<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| April 5, 1899 |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
| |
| March 21, 2013 |
||
| Pennsylvania |
|||
|February 2, 1987 |
|||
| Florida |
|||
|113 years, 248 days |
|||
|California |
|||
|California |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 89 |
||
| |
| data-sort-value="Fry" | Bertha Fry<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| December 1, 1893 |
|||
|September 5, 1897 |
|||
| November 14, 2007 |
|||
|May 7, 2011 |
|||
| {{ayd | December 1, 1893 | November 14, 2007}} |
|||
|113 years, 244 days |
|||
| Indiana |
|||
|Nebraska |
|||
| Indiana |
|||
|Kansas |
|||
|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 90 |
||
| data-sort-value="Harrington" | Mae Harrington<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
|||
|Gladys Swetland<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
| |
| {{center|F}} |
||
| January 20, 1889 |
|||
|April 18, 1892 |
|||
|December |
| December 29, 2002 |
||
| {{ayd | January 20, 1889 | December 29, 2002}} |
|||
|113 years, 240 days |
|||
| New York |
|||
|Pennsylvania |
|||
| New York |
|||
|Pennsylvania |
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|- |
|- |
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| rowspan=2 | 91 |
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|89 |
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| 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> |
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|Meta Dishman<ref name=GRG/> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
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| December 25, 1877 |
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|June 1, 1903 |
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| December 2, 1991 |
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|January 20, 2017 |
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| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | December 25, 1877 | December 2, 1991}} |
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|113 years, 233 days |
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| Tennessee |
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|Virginia |
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| Michigan |
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|Virginia |
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|- |
|- |
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| data-sort-value="Bailey" | Daisey Bailey<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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|90 |
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| {{center|F}} |
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|Mary Randall<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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| March 30, 1896 |
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|align=center|F |
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| March 7, 2010 |
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|April 1, 1887 |
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| Tennessee |
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|November 12, 2000 |
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| Michigan |
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|113 years, 225 days |
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|Arkansas |
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|Texas |
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|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 93 |
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| data-sort-value="Mitchell" | Agatha Mitchell<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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|[[Delina Filkins]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
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| |
| March 26, 1887 |
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| February 25, 2001 |
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|December 4, 1928 |
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| {{ayd | March 26, 1887 | February 25, 2001}} |
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|113 years, 214 days |
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| Virginia |
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|New York |
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| Virginia |
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|New York |
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|- |
|- |
||
| |
| 94 |
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| data-sort-value="Michelson" | Goldie Michelson<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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|Mary Kelly<ref name="GRGCCCC">[http://grg.org/Adams/CCCC.HTM GRG World's Oldest Person Titleholders (since 1955)] Retrieved May 31, 2011.</ref> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
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| August 8, 1902 |
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|June 7, 1851 |
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| July 8, 2016 |
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|December 30, 1964 |
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| {{ayd | August 8, 1902 | July 8, 2016}} |
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|113 years, 206 days |
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| [[Ukraine]]{{efn|Michelson was born in [[Kropyvnytskyi|Elizabethgrad]], which was then a part of the Russian Empire. It is now part of Ukraine.}} |
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|Michigan |
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| Massachusetts |
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|California |
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|- |
|- |
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| 95 |
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|rowspan=2|93 |
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| data-sort-value="Barwis" | Merle Barwis<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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|Nelle Hunt<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
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| December 23, 1900 |
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|July 28, 1887 |
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| November 22, 2014 |
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|February 8, 2001 |
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| {{ayd | December 23, 1900 | November 22, 2014}} |
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|113 years, 195 days |
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| Iowa |
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|Missouri |
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| Canada |
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|Missouri |
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|- |
|- |
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| rowspan=2 | 96 |
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|Helen Stetter<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2007" /> |
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| data-sort-value="Huhn" | Clara Huhn<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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|align=center|F |
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| {{center|F}} |
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|November 18, 1893 |
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| January 28, 1887 |
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|June 1, 2007 |
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| December 20, 2000 |
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|113 years, 195 days |
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| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | January 28, 1887 | December 20, 2000}} |
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|Nebraska |
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|Nebraska |
| Nebraska |
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| California |
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|- |
|- |
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| data-sort-value="Meloche" | Beulah Meloche<ref name=GRG-Deceased/> |
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|95 |
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| {{center|F}} |
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|Carrie Hardrick<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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| December 5, 1906 |
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|align=center|F |
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| October 27, 2020 |
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|November 6, 1887 |
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| |
| New York |
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| New York |
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|113 years, 189 days |
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|Texas |
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|Texas |
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|- |
|- |
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| rowspan=2 | 98 |
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|96 |
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| 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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|Mamie Eva Keith<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
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|March |
| March 15, 1867 |
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| January 27, 1981 |
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|September 20, 1986 |
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| rowspan=2 | {{ayd | March 15, 1867 | January 27, 1981}} |
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|113 years, 182 days |
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| North Carolina |
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|Illinois |
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| [[District of Columbia]] |
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|Illinois |
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|- |
|- |
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| data-sort-value="Taylor" | Corinne Dixon Taylor<ref name=GRG-G-2015/> |
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|97 |
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| {{center|F}} |
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|Beryl Kapaun<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2012"/> |
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| April 2, 1893 |
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|align=center|F |
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| February 14, 2007 |
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|June 4, 1899 |
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| District of Columbia |
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|November 7, 2012 |
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| District of Columbia |
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|113 years, 156 days |
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|[[South Dakota]] |
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|South Dakota |
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|- |
|- |
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| 100 |
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|98 |
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| data-sort-value="Holblinger" | Annabelle Holblinger<ref name=2023-Deaths/> |
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|Emma Wilson<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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| |
| {{center|F}} |
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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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|October 13, 1983 |
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| {{ayd | March 16, 1909 | January 27, 2023}} |
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|113 years, 154 days |
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| New York |
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|Missouri |
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| [[Colorado]] |
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|Missouri |
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|- |
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|rowspan=2|99 |
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|Jane Markle<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
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|October 10, 1883 |
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|March 12, 1997 |
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|113 years, 153 days |
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|Pennsylvania |
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|Pennsylvania |
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|- |
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|Helen Wheat<ref name=GRG/> |
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|align=center|F |
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|September 16, 1902 |
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|February 16, 2016 |
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|113 years, 153 days |
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|Pennsylvania |
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|[[Maryland]] |
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|} |
|} |
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== Biographies == |
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===American emigrant supercentenarians age 113+=== |
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Below is a list of people aged at least 113 who were born in the United States and live or have died in another country. |
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{|class=wikitable |
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!Rank |
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!Name |
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!Sex |
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!Birth date |
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!Death date |
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!Age {{Ref label|Age|†}} |
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!State of birth |
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!Country of death or residence |
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|- |
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|1 |
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|[[List of Italian supercentenarians#Marie Josephine Gaudette|Marie Josephine Gaudette]]<ref name=GRG/> |
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|align=center|F |
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|March 25, 1902 |
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|July 13, 2017 |
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|115 years, 110 days |
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|New Hampshire |
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|Italy |
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|- |
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|2 |
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|[[Merle Barwis]]<ref name=GRG/> |
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|align=center|F |
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|December 23, 1900 |
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|November 22, 2014 |
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|113 years, 334 days |
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|Iowa |
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|Canada |
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|- |
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|3 |
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|[[Cora Hansen]]<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/Deaths2012.HTM |title=GRG Deaths in 2012 |publisher=Gerontology Research Group |date=2014-05-31 |accessdate=2014-07-13}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|March 25, 1899 |
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|April 18, 2012 |
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|113 years, 24 days |
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|Minnesota |
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|Canada |
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|} |
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==Chronological list of the oldest living persons in the United States since 1974== |
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{|class=wikitable |
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!From |
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!To |
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!Name |
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!Sex |
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!Reported age(s)<br> when oldest |
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!Reported lifespan |
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!State of death |
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|- |
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|Unidentified |
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|May 18, 1974 |
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|Clarida Roy<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
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|? – 110 |
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|October 19, 1863 – May 18, 1974<br> 110 years, 211 days |
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|Maine |
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|- |
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|May 18, 1974 |
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|August 6, 1976<br> ({{age in years and days|1974|5|18|1976|8|6}}) |
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|Mary Bittlebrun<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /><ref name="MBittlebrun">{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/35110760/| title=Aunt Mary Bittlebrun turns 111 | publisher=El Dorado News-Times | date= March 20, 1975| accessdate=December 25, 2014}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|110 – 112 |
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|March 19, 1864 – August 6, 1976<br> 112 years, 140 days |
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|Arkansas |
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|- |
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|August 6, 1976 |
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|December 2, 1977<br> ({{age in years and days|1976|8|6|1977|12|2}}) |
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|Sophia DeMuth<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /><ref name="SDemuth">{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19771205&id=lBIsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BscEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4012,942900| title=In The Nation | publisher=The Times Daily | date= December 5, 1977| accessdate=December 25, 2014}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|110 – 111 |
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|June 30, 1866 – December 2, 1977<br> 111 years, 155 days |
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|Nebraska |
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|- |
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|December 2, 1977 |
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|January 22, 1981<br> ({{age in years and days|1977|12|2|1981|1|22}}) |
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|Fannie Thomas<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=191&dat=19810127&id=SKwvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oS4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6853,1629532|title=Bulletin Journal - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|110 – 113 |
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|April 14, 1867 – January 22, 1981<br> 113 years, 283 days |
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|California |
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|- |
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|January 22, 1981 |
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|November 13, 1982<br> ({{age in years and days|1981|1|22|1982|11|13}}) |
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|Nellie Spencer<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|111 – 113 |
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|August 24, 1869 – November 13, 1982<br> 113 years, 81 days |
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|New Jersey |
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|- |
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|November 13, 1982 |
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|October 13, 1983<br> ({{age in days|1982|11|13|1983|10|13}} days) |
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|Emma Wilson<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|112 – 113 |
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|May 12, 1870 – October 13, 1983<br> 113 years, 154 days |
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|Missouri |
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|- |
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|October 13, 1983 |
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|February 16, 1985<br> ({{age in years and days|1983|10|13|1985|2|16}}) |
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|[[Mathew Beard]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|M |
|||
|113 – 114 |
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|July 9, 1870 – February 16, 1985<br> 114 years, 222 days |
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|Florida |
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|- |
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|February 16, 1985 |
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|October 21, 1986<br> ({{age in years and days|1985|2|16|1986|10|21}}) |
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|Augusta Holtz<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 – 115 |
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|August 3, 1871 – October 21, 1986<br> 115 years, 79 days |
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|Missouri |
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|- |
|||
|October 21, 1986 |
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|February 2, 1987<br> ({{age in days|1986|10|21|1987|2|2}} days) |
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|Mary McKinney<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 |
|||
|May 30, 1873 – February 2, 1987<br> 113 years, 248 days |
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|California |
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|- |
|||
|February 2, 1987 |
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|January 11, 1988<br> ({{age in days|1987|2|2|1988|1|11}} days) |
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|[[#Florence Knapp|Florence Knapp]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 – 114 |
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|October 10, 1873 – January 11, 1988<br> 114 years, 93 days |
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|Pennsylvania |
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|- |
|||
|January 11, 1988 |
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|March 21, 1993<br> ({{age in years and days|1988|1|11|1993|3|21}}) |
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|[[Lucy Hannah]]<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Fjkhcn3oeIC&pg=PR8&lpg=PR8&dq=Demographic+research+monographs+-+Supercentenarians&source=bl&ots=P66a8YzniG&sig=l7LRgUpdObtGX0BeiOKSkISaojM&hl=sk&sa=X&ei=ygOzVNStEobpywOtwoLYBA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Demographic%20research%20monographs%20-%20Supercentenarians&f=false | title=Demographic research monographs - Supercentenarians | publisher=''[[Springer Publishing]]'' | author=Maier, H., Gampe, J., Jeune, B., Vaupel, J.W., Robine, J.-M. | year=2010 | pages=249 | isbn=978-3-642-11520-2}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
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|112 – 117 |
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|July 16, 1875 – March 21, 1993<br> 117 years, 248 days |
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|Michigan |
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|- |
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|March 21, 1993 |
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|May 7, 1994<br> ({{age in years and days|1993|3|21|1994|5|7}}) |
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|[[Margaret Skeete]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|114 – 115 |
|||
|October 27, 1878 – May 7, 1994<br> 115 years, 192 days |
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|Virginia |
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|- |
|||
|May 7, 1994 |
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|September 6, 1994<br> ({{age in days|1994|5|7|1994|9|6}} days) |
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|[[#Wilhelmina Kott|Wilhelmina Kott]]<ref name=Heiner /> |
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|align=center|F |
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|114 |
|||
|March 7, 1880 – September 6, 1994<br> 114 years, 183 days |
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|Illinois |
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|- |
|||
|September 6, 1994 |
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|December 30, 1999<br> ({{age in years and days|1994|9|6|1999|12|30}}) |
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|[[Sarah Knauss]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
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|113 – 119 |
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|September 24, 1880 – December 30, 1999<br> 119 years, 97 days |
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|Pennsylvania |
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|- |
|||
|December 30, 1999 |
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|June 25, 2000<br> ({{age in days|1999|12|30|2000|6|25}} days) |
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|Myrtle Dorsey<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|114 |
|||
|November 22, 1885 – June 25, 2000<br> 114 years, 216 days |
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|Ohio |
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|- |
|||
|June 25, 2000 |
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|March 18, 2002<br> ({{age in years and days|2000|6|25|2002|3|18}}) |
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|[[Maude Farris-Luse]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 – 115 |
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|January 21, 1887 – March 18, 2002<br> 115 years, 56 days |
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|Michigan |
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|- |
|||
|March 18, 2002 |
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|May 28, 2002<br> ({{age in days|2002|3|18|2002|5|28}} days) |
|||
|[[Grace Clawson]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|114 |
|||
|November 15, 1887 – May 28, 2002<br> 114 years, 194 days |
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|Florida |
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|- |
|||
|May 28, 2002 |
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|August 21, 2002<br> ({{age in days|2002|5|28|2002|8|21}} days) |
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|[[Adelina Domingues]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|114 |
|||
|February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002<br> 114 years, 183 days |
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|California |
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|- |
|||
|August 21, 2002 |
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|December 29, 2002<br> ({{age in days|2002|8|21|2002|12|29}} days) |
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|[[#Mae Harrington|Mae Harrington]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 |
|||
|January 20, 1889 – December 29, 2002<br> 113 years, 343 days |
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|New York |
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|- |
|||
|December 29, 2002 |
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|April 20, 2003<br> ({{age in days|2002|12|29|2003|4|20}} days) |
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|[[#Mary Christian|Mary Christian]]<ref name="Mary Christian">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/22/national/main550622.shtml|title=Nation's Oldest Dies At 113|website=Cbsnews.com|accessdate=August 10, 2017}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 |
|||
|June 12, 1889 – April 20, 2003<br> 113 years, 312 days |
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|California |
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|- |
|||
|April 20, 2003 |
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|October 5, 2003<br> ({{age in days|2003|4|20|2003|10|5}} days) |
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|[[#Elena Slough|Elena Slough]]<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|title=Oldest American dies age 114 |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3166758.stm|work=BBC News |date=October 6, 2003 |accessdate=November 3, 2010}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 – 114 |
|||
|July 4, 1889 – October 5, 2003<br> 114 years, 93 days |
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|New Jersey |
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|- |
|||
|October 5, 2003 |
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|May 14, 2004<br> ({{age in days|2003|10|5|2004|5|14}} days) |
|||
|[[#Charlotte Benkner|Charlotte Benkner]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 – 114 |
|||
|November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004<br> 114 years, 180 days |
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|Ohio |
|||
|- |
|||
|May 14, 2004 |
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|December 1, 2004<br> ({{age in days|2004|5|14|2004|12|1}} days) |
|||
|[[#Emma Verona Johnston|Emma Verona Johnston]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 – 114 |
|||
|August 6, 1890 – December 1, 2004<br> 114 years, 117 days |
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|Ohio |
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|- |
|||
|December 1, 2004 |
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|December 11, 2006<br> ({{age in years and days|2004|12|1|2006|12|11}}) |
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|[[Elizabeth Bolden]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
|114 – 116 |
|||
|August 15, 1890 – December 11, 2006<br> 116 years, 118 days |
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|Tennessee |
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|- |
|||
|December 11, 2006 |
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|January 28, 2007<br> ({{age in days|2006|12|11|2007|1|28}} days) |
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|[[Emma Tillman]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|114 |
|||
|November 22, 1892 – January 28, 2007<br> 114 years, 67 days |
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|Connecticut |
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|- |
|||
|January 28, 2007 |
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|February 14, 2007<br> ({{age in days|2007|1|28|2007|2|14}} days) |
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|[[Corinne Dixon Taylor]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /><ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201976.html|title = Corinne Dixon Taylor, 113; Family Helped Build SE|date = 2007-02-23|accessdate = 2015-11-12|website = |publisher = Washington Post|last = Holley|first = Joe}}</ref> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 |
|||
|April 2, 1893 – February 14, 2007<br> 113 years, 318 days |
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|District of Columbia |
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|- |
|||
|February 14, 2007 |
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|November 26, 2008<br> ({{age in years and days|2007|2|14|2008|11|26}}) |
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|[[Edna Parker]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
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|align=center|F |
|||
|113 – 115 |
|||
|April 20, 1893 – November 26, 2008<br> 115 years, 220 days |
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|Indiana |
|||
|- |
|||
|November 26, 2008 |
|||
|September 11, 2009<br> ({{age in days|2008|11|26|2009|9|11}} days) |
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|[[Gertrude Baines]]<ref name="Supercentenarians who lived in the United States" /> |
|||
|align=center|F |
|||
|114 – 115 |
|||
|April 6, 1894 – September 11, 2009<br> 115 years, 158 days |
|||
|California |
|||
|- |
|||
|September 11, 2009 |
|||
|March 7, 2010<br> ({{age in days|2009|9|11|2010|3|7}} days) |
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|[[Mary Josephine Ray]]<ref name="Mary Josephine Ray">{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/us/south-carolina/aiken/aiken-standard/2010/03-09/page-6?tag=mary+josephine+ray&rtserp=tags/?pep=mary-josephine-ray|title=Aiken Standard Newspaper Archives, Mar 9, 2010, p. 6- NewspaperArchive®|date=March 9, 2010|website=Newspaperarchive.com|accessdate=2017-08-10}}</ref> |
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|May 17, 1895 – March 7, 2010<br> 114 years, 294 days |
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|April 6, 2010<br> ({{age in days|2010|3|7|2010|4|6}} days) |
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|[[Neva Morris]]<ref name="Mary Josephine Ray" /><ref name="Neva Morris">{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7561259/Second-oldest-person-in-world-dies-aged-114.html|title=Second oldest person in world dies aged 114|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|date=April 6, 2010|accessdate=October 18, 2016}}</ref> |
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|August 3, 1895 – April 6, 2010<br> 114 years, 246 days |
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|January 31, 2011<br> ({{age in days|2010|4|6|2011|1|31}} days) |
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|[[Eunice Sanborn]]<ref name="Neva Morris" /> |
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|July 20, 1896 – January 31, 2011<br> 114 years, 195 days |
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|December 4, 2012<br> ({{age in years and days|2011|01|31|2012|12|4}}) |
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|[[Besse Cooper]]<ref name=Diesat116>{{cite web|url=http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/05/besse-cooper-worlds-oldest-person-dies-at-age-116/|title=Besse Cooper, World's Oldest Person, Dies at Age 116|work=[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]|date=December 5, 2012|accessdate=July 6, 2013}}</ref> |
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|August 26, 1896 – December 4, 2012<br> 116 years, 100 days |
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|December 4, 2012 |
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|December 17, 2012<br> ({{age in days|2012|12|4|2012|12|17}} days) |
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|[[Dina Manfredini]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/115-year-old-Iowa-Woman-Dies-Was-Worlds-Oldest-Person-183804831.html|title=115-year-old Iowa Woman Dies, Was World's Oldest Person|work=KCRG-TV9|date=December 17, 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113022820/http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/115-year-old-Iowa-Woman-Dies-Was-Worlds-Oldest-Person-183804831.html|archivedate=13 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="GWeaver" /> |
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|April 4, 1897 – December 17, 2012<br> 115 years, 257 days |
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|December 17, 2012 |
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|April 6, 2015 <br> ({{age in years and days|2012|12|17|2015|04|6}}) |
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|[[Gertrude Weaver]]<ref name="GWeaver">{{cite web|url=http://www.magnoliareporter.com/news_and_business/regional_news/article_c9af89aa-d834-11e4-b9fb-63e8fce27abd.html|title=Camden nursing home resident -- almost 117 -- now the world's oldest known person|website=Magnoliareporter.com|accessdate=2017-08-10}}</ref> |
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|July 4, 1898 – April 6, 2015<br> 116 years, 276 days |
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|June 17, 2015<br> ({{age in days|2015|4|6|2015|6|17}} days) |
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|[[Jeralean Talley]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Oldest American, Jeralean Talley, Turns 114 Years Old|url=http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/23/happy-114th-birthday-to-jeralean-talley-the-oldest-living-american/|work=TIME.com|date=May 23, 2013|accessdate=May 25, 2013}}</ref> |
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|May 23, 1899 – June 17, 2015<br> 116 years, 25 days |
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|June 17, 2015 |
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|May 12, 2016<br> ({{age in days|2015|6|17|2016|5|12}} days) |
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|[[Susannah Mushatt Jones]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/05/13/shes-only-person-left-born-1800s/84321322/|title=This woman is the only person left born in the 1800s|publisher=''[[USA Today]]''|date=May 13, 2016}}</ref> |
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|July 6, 1899 – May 12, 2016<br> 116 years, 311 days |
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|July 8, 2016<br> ({{age in days|2016|5|12|2016|7|8}} days) |
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|[[Goldie Michelson]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/113-year-old-Jewish-woman-now-oldest-person-in-the-US-453939|title=113-year-old Jewish woman now oldest person in the US|date=May 14, 2016|publisher=Jerusalem Post|accessdate=May 14, 2016}}</ref> |
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|August 8, 1902 – July 8, 2016<br> 113 years, 335 days |
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|February 5, 2017<br> ({{age in days|2016|7|8|2017|2|5}} days) |
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|Adele Dunlap<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/oldest-american-goldie-michelson-dies-home-age-113-40450151|title=Oldest American, Goldie Michelson, Dies at Home at Age 113|date=July 8, 2016|location=Worcester, Massachusetts|publisher=ABC News|agency=Associated Press|accessdate=8 July 2016|quote=Young says the new oldest American is New Jersey resident Adele Dunlap, who's also 113.}}</ref> |
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|December 12, 1902 – February 5, 2017<br> 114 years, 55 days |
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|May 9, 2018 <br> ({{age in years and days|2017|2|5|2018|5|9}}) |
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|[[Delphine Gibson]]<ref name=GRG/> |
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|August 17, 1903 – May 9, 2018 <br> 114 years, 265 days |
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==List of people== |
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===Ann Pouder=== |
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[[File:Ann Pouder.jpg|thumb|160px|Ann Pouder on her 110th birthday; photograph from June, 1919 [[National Geographic Magazine]]]] |
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Ann Pouder (née Alexander Poudar) ([[London]], [[United Kingdom]] April 8, 1807 – [[Baltimore, Maryland]], [[United States]] July 10, 1917) was one of the first modernly recognized [[British Americans|British American supercentenarians]]. Her age at death was {{age in years and days|1807|4|8|1917|7|10}}.<ref>Robert D. Young, Louis Epstein, L. Stephen Coles. Rejuvenation Research. August 2008, 11(4): 851–852. {{doi|10.1089/rej.2008.0777}}.</ref> When Pouder was twelve years old, her family emigrated to the United States. There she lived the following 98 years of her life in [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. She married [[Nepalese Americans|Nepalese American]] Citizen Alexander Poudar, although became a widow very early and had no children. Her extreme longevity claim was certified by [[Alexander Graham Bell]].<ref>[http://www.grg.org/Adams/Tables.htm GRG Official Tables, Notes for Table A.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100818043705/http://www.grg.org/Adams/Tables.htm |date=August 18, 2010 }} (This document mentions a report that Ann Pouder's lifespan was validated by Alexander Graham Bell.) Retrieved June 6, 2011.</ref> In her last few months, she was bedridden, [[blindness|blind]], and almost [[deaf]], but her mind remained sharp.<ref>Maurice Ernest, The Longer Life – A Critical Survey of Many Claims to Abnormal Longevity, of various Theories on duration of life and old age, and of divers attempts at rejuvenation, READ BOOKS, 2006, {{ISBN|1-4067-9799-5}}, {{ISBN|978-1-4067-9799-2}}</ref> |
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===Florence Knapp=== |
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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 World Records|Guinness Book of World Records]] as the oldest person in the world.<ref>{{cite news|title=Florence Knapp, Former Teacher, 114|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/13/obituaries/florence-knapp-former-teacher-114.html|publisher=Nytimes.com|date=13 January 1988}}</ref> |
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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 [[centenarian|age 108]]. |
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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]] on December 27, 1987, meant that Knapp became the oldest verified living person. Her death, aged 114 years 93 days, just 15 days after, meant that she never appeared in a Guinness Book as the oldest living person. |
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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, Calment may very well have been Florence Knapp's actual immediate successor. |
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===Ettie Mae Greene=== |
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Ettie Mae Greene née Thomas (September 8, 1877 – February 26, 1992) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]] who was recognized by [[Guinness World Records]] as the 'oldest living American' in 1991 (later, the [[Social Security Administration|SSA]] study would replace her with [[Lucy Hannah]], who was apparently older). She was born in [[Wayside, West Virginia]], and worked as a seamstress and a farmer.<ref name="Ettie Mae Greene">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html|title=Ettie Mae Greene, Seamstress, 114|date=February 29, 1992|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Greene died of a cold at the Springfield Comprehensive Care Center in [[Springfield, West Virginia]]. At the time of her death at the age of 114 years, 171 days, she had nine children (four of whom she had outlived), 21 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren and 37 great-great-grandchildren.<ref name="Ettie Mae Greene" /> She still holds the record for being the [[list of the verified oldest people|oldest person]] in the state of [[West Virginia]]. |
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===Wilhelmina Kott=== |
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Wilhelmina Kott née Geringer (March 7, 1880 – September 6, 1994)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/G1870s.htm|title=G1870s|work=Gerontology Research Group|accessdate=November 20, 2013}}</ref> was an American supercentenarian recognized by Guinness World Records as the 'oldest living American' in its 1995 edition,<ref name=Heiner>{{cite book|title=Supercentenarians|last=Maier|first=Heiner|date=May 17, 2010|pages=276–277|accessdate=November 20, 2013|work=Google Books|url=https://books.google.com/?id=0Fjkhcn3oeIC&pg=PA276&dq=3.4+Wilhelmina+Kott:+Aged+115+or+114#v=onepage&q&f=false|isbn=9783642115202}}</ref> following the death of [[Margaret Skeete]]. She was born in Peru, Illinois, as one of 16 children to George and Sophia Geringer. She moved to Chicago in 1881, where she lived almost her entire life. She married Charles Kott in 1899.<ref name=Heiner/> She died on September 6, 1994, aged 114 years 183 days. |
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===Mary Bidwell=== |
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Mary Electa Bidwell née Nobel (May 19, 1881– April 25, 1996)<ref name=ssdi>[[Social Security Death Index]]; 040383799</ref> was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]]. She died at age 114 years, 342 days on April 25, 1996. She is the oldest person ever to die in [[Connecticut]].<ref name=nyt1>{{cite news |title=Life is Long |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E1DC163DF93AA15751C1A960958260 |publisher=The New York Times |quote=Mary Electa Bidwell was supposed to be listed as the Guinness Book of World Records's oldest living American, but she died shortly before the publication's deadline. 1876–1996 Mary Thompson, who was slightly older, couldn't qualify for Guinness's title, either – as the daughter of ex-slaves, she had no birth certificate – but in 1992 she did receive the ultimate American tribute to longevity, a mention by Willard Scott on the ''Today'' show. | accessdate=2007-12-09 | first=Gail | last=Collins | date=December 29, 1996}}</ref><ref name="museum">{{cite news |title=Mary Electa Bidwell. Oldest person in the USA |url=http://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/Articles/mary_electa_bidwell.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724055848/http://www.bidwellhousemuseum.org/Articles/mary_electa_bidwell.htm|archivedate=July 24, 2011 |quote=According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mary Electa Bidwell, at 114, is the oldest person in the United States. |publisher=Bidwell House Museum |year=1996 |accessdate=2007-12-09}}</ref><ref name=cnn/> |
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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=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 |title=Oldest person in the U.S. still teaching life lessons |url=http://cgi.cnn.com/US/9512/oldest_american/ |publisher=CNN |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. |accessdate=2007-12-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020312233627/http://cgi.cnn.com/US/9512/oldest_american/ |archivedate=March 12, 2002 |df=mdy-all }}</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 | pages=298 - 299 | first1=Bernard | last1=Jeune | title=Supercentenarians (Demographic Research Monographs) | chapter=Jeanne Calment and her Successors. |editor1-first=Heiner |editor1-last=Maier | publisher=Springer |date=May 2010 | ISBN=978-3-642-11519-6|display-authors=etal}}</ref> was an American supercentenarian. She was a resident of [[Johnston County, North Carolina]]. Barnes died from complications following a minor foot infection.<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> Barnes, who was born to a slave and married a [[tenant farmer]], was survived by four children; 11 of her children preceded her in death.<ref name="RNOmb"/> |
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Some dispute exists as to her date of birth. Though the 1882 date is written in the family's bible, the 1900 US Census lists her as having been born in 1881, and her [[marriage license]] says she was born in 1880.<ref name="RNOmb"/> Authenticating to the latest of those dates, Barnes was 115 years, 319 days old when she died. |
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Barnes is the oldest person ever in U.S. state of [[North Carolina]] on record. |
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===Mae Harrington=== |
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Mae Harrington (née Maxwell; January 20, 1889 – December 29, 2002) was an American supercentenarian who became the world's oldest living person upon the death of [[Adelina Domingues]]. Harrington was also the oldest living American and the oldest person ever from 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 on May 28, 2005 by [[#Grace Thaxton|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.<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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=== 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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Mary Dorothy Christian (née Perry, June 12, 1889 – April 20, 2003) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]] who became the [[oldest people|oldest recognized person in the United States]] at age 113 upon the death of 113-year-old [[Mae Harrington]] and was succeeded in this title by another 113-year-old, [[Elena Slough]]. Perry was born in [[Taunton, Massachusetts]] to parents whose name had been [[anglicism|anglicized]] from ''Perreira'' (she was of [[Portugal|Portuguese]] descent). She spent much of her life in [[California]], where she died in a [[San Pablo, California]] nursing home at 113 years and 312 days.<ref name="Mary Christian"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/08/BA245357.DTL |title=113-year-old is oldest American |work=San Francisco Chronicle |author=Charles Burress |date=November 8, 2002 |accessdate=2007-12-10}}</ref> |
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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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===Elena Slough=== |
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Elena Proctor Slough née Rodenbaugh (July 4, 1889 – October 5, 2003)<ref name="BBC" /> was the oldest recognized person in the United States from the death of [[#Mary Christian|Mary Christian]] on April 20, 2003, until Slough's own death, aged 114 years 93 days, six months later. After her death, the oldest recognized person in the United States was [[#Charlotte Benkner|Charlotte Benkner]].<ref name="BBC" /> |
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=== Maggie Barnes === |
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Born in [[Horsham, Pennsylvania]], she married twice and had children by each marriage. Her 90-year-old daughter died three days before her, at the same [[Cape May, New Jersey]] nursing home. 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://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-85421609.html|author=David Porter |agency=Associated Press |publisher=Lawrence Journal |date=October 6, 2003 |accessdate=November 3, 2010 }}</ref> |
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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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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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===Charlotte Benkner=== |
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Charlotte Benkner (née Enterlein; November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004)<ref name="latimes" /><ref name="toledoblade.com" /><ref name="Guinness2005" /><ref name="cbsnews" /> was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]] and [[oldest people|the oldest verified living person]] from [[Mitoyo Kawate]]'s death in 2003 until sufficient documentation was found to validate the age of [[Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan]] of [[Puerto Rico]] in March 2004.<ref name="latimes">{{Cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/may/18/local/me-benkner18|title=Charlotte Benkner, 114; 2nd-Oldest Person in World Lived 'Steadily'|date=18 May 2004|accessdate=24 November 2015|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> The subsequent recognition of [[María Capovilla]] of [[Ecuador]] in December 2005 moved Benkner down to third place at the time of her death.<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|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616043919/http://www.toledoblade.com/Deaths/2004/05/17/North-Lima-woman-dies-at-age-114.html|archivedate=June 16, 2012 |accessdate=24 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Guinness2005">Guinness World Records 2005. [[Guinness World Records]] {{ISBN|978-0553588101}}</ref> |
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=== Adelina Domingues === |
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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 [[President of the United States]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref name="cbsnews" /><ref name="Bischoff 2005">{{cite web | last=Bischoff | first=Katrin | title=Frieda Müller, der älteste Mensch in Deutschland, ist am Donnerstag in Potsdam gestorben: 110 Jahre, neun Monate und drei Tage | website=Berliner Zeitung | date=2005-07-23 | 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 | language=de | access-date=2018-02-18}}</ref> On 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]].<ref name="cbsnews">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/15/national/main583871.shtml|title=Oldest Person Ready To Turn 114|website=Cbsnews.com}}</ref> She became the oldest recognized person in the [[United States]] when 114-year-old [[Elena Slough]] died in October 2003.<ref name="BBC" /> She lived with her sister Tillie O'Hare (the youngest of the siblings), whom she once cared for when their parents were running the hotel, until Tillie (born February 15, 1904) died, just three weeks shy of becoming a [[centenarian]], on January 25, 2004.<ref name="Bischoff 2005"/> Benkner survived her sister by only four months, dying at age [[list of the verified oldest people|114 years 180 days]] after she was briefly hospitalized in [[Youngstown, Ohio]], and was buried in Peekskill.<ref name="latimes" /><ref name="toledoblade.com" /> |
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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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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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===Emma Verona Johnston=== |
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Emma Verona Johnston (née Calhoun) (August 6, 1890 – December 1, 2004) was an [[United States|American]] [[supercentenarian]] who was born in [[Indianola, Iowa]] to a large family.<ref name="EJohnston">{{cite news|url = http://articles.latimes.com/2004/dec/03/local/me-johnston3|title = Emma Johnston, 114; Ohioan Was Oldest Living American|first = Claudia|last = Luther|newspaper = [[Los Angeles Times]]|date = December 3, 2004|accessdate = July 30, 2018}} Also available from the website of the [[Gerontology Research Group]] at [http://www.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 her marriage to ophthalmologist Harry Johnston;<ref name = FromClass1912 /><ref>{{cite news|title = Centenarian studied at Drake|last = Hoven|first = Valerie|date = Spring 2004|work = Alumni News section of the Drake University publication "Update"|accessdate = July 30, 2018|url = http://ddr.lib.drake.edu/digital/collection/du-vj/id/15/rec/1|publisher = Drake University Digital Collections, [[Drake University]] Library}}</ref><ref name = Honorary>{{cite web|title = Honorary Degree Nomination|last = Willey|first = John|year = 2004|url = http://ddr.lib.drake.edu/digital/collection/du-vj/id/19/rec/3|accessdate = July 30, 2018|publisher = Drake University Digital Collections, [[Drake University]] Library}}</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|publisher = Cowles Library at [[Drake University]] (lib.drake.edu)|work = The Drake Heritage Collections}}</ref> At age 98, she moved from [[Iowa]] to [[Ohio]] in order to live with her daughter and son-in-law. She continued to be in good health even after turning 110, still being able to walk up steps, and was also alert and able to engage in conversations.<ref name="GRG" /> She became the "[[list of the verified oldest people|oldest living American]]" when [[#Charlotte Benkner|Charlotte Benkner]] died on May 14, 2004. Shortly afterwards, on the occasion of her 114th birthday, she was presented with a proclamation signed by Drake University President [[David Maxwell (academic)|David Maxwell]].<ref>{{cite news|title = Drake celebrates alumna's 114th birthday|work = On Campus: Drake University's newsletter for Faculty and Staff|date = August 13, 2004|accessdate = July 30, 2018|url = http://ddr.lib.drake.edu/digital/collection/du-vj/id/13/rec/2|publisher = Drake University Digital Collections, [[Drake University]] Library|volume = 57|issue = 6}}</ref> The University's Vice President for Institutional Advancement, John Willey, had nominated her for an honorary degree, arguing that she "has given new dimension to the Drake ideal of a lifelong learner, and in the integrity of her life, she has affirmed Drake's enduring mission of shaping thoughtful people to be citizens engaged with their times."<ref name = Honorary /> Johnston died in [[Worthington, Ohio]] on December 1, 2004,<ref name="EJohnston" /> at age 114 years, 117 days. |
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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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Grace Thaxton (née Menges) (June 18, 1891 - July 6, 2005) was one of oldest people in the United States until her death on July 6, 2005, age 114 years and 18 days. She became [[Melva Radcliffe|New York state's all-time recordholder]] on May 28, 2005, aged 113 years 344 days, breaking the record set by [[Mae Harrington]] in December 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/GThaxton.htm |title=LA Times report at the Gerontology Research Group |publisher=Grg.org |date=2005-07-09 |accessdate=2014-07-13}}</ref> |
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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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Thaxton almost lived to see her son Robert (July 12, 1915 – 2011) turn 90, six days after her death. Thaxton's mother (1860–1969) lived to 109.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/L/USA.HTM |title=Verified Supercentenarian Cases – USA [Legacy List] |website=grg.org |publisher=[[Gerontology Research Group]] |date=April 28, 2007 |accessdate=September 12, 2015}}</ref> |
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=== Emma Verona Johnston === |
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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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Bettie Antry Wilson née Rutherford (September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006)<ref name="Bettie Wilson">[http://www.grg.org/BWilson1.htm Bettie Wilson, 115; One of Three Oldest Americans] (LA Times)</ref> was thought to be the oldest verified living person in the United States upon the death of 114-year-old [[#Emma Verona Johnston|Emma Verona Johnston]] on December 1, 2004 until the subsequent verification of [[Elizabeth Bolden]]. Both were born in the rural South—where they lived less than 100 miles apart. |
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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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Born of freed slaves, Solomon and Delia Rutherford, she is the oldest resident of the state of Mississippi ever recorded (the previous record was 113 years, 12 days set in 1994). In late April 2005, Wilson moved into a new home funded by donations. |
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=== Bettie Wilson === |
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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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'''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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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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=== George Francis === |
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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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Thomas D. Nelson, Sr. (July 8, 1895 – January 9, 2007) was, at age 111, the oldest living man in the United States and the second-oldest man in the world from December 7, 2006 (the death of [[Moses Hardy]]), for one month until his own death, aged 111 years, 185 days. |
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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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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 |url=http://panews.com/features/x681416553/PA-s-Nelson-celebrates-birthday-milestone?start:int=0|quote= ... The creator and proprietor of Nelson’s Confectionery on Lincoln Avenue celebrated his 111th birthday Saturday surrounded by his friends and family. |
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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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Arbella Ewing (née Perkins) (March 13, 1894 – March 22, 2008)<ref name="GRG Deaths in 2008"/><ref name="MyFox Dallas">[http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6104868&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1] {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic|fix-attempted=yes}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> was, at the time of her death at age 114, [[oldest people|the third-oldest living person in the world]] behind [[Edna Parker]] of United States and [[Maria de Jesus]] of Portugal, the second-oldest person in the United States and the oldest living [[African American]].<ref name="latimes20080324">{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/24/local/me-ewing24|title=Texan was thought to be the world's 3rd-oldest person|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=March 24, 2008|accessdate=December 30, 2015}}</ref> |
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===Evelyn Kozak=== |
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Ewing, the fourth of 12 children, grew up in [[Streetman, Texas]], and married Frank Ewing in 1915, after which she moved to [[South Dallas]]. Her former house is still located in South Dallas today. She had a sister named Annie, who was born in 1904 and was 103 at the time of her death. When she was an adult, she worked in a local bikeshop in Streetman. Her great-grandparents were slaves in [[Mississippi]]. After marrying Frank Ewing, they had a daughter, named Claudia, who died in 1970. The Ewing family stated she was a gem in the family according to [[The Dallas Morning News]]. She lived in her own home in Dallas until the age of 113, after breaking her hip at her birthday party, she was moved into a personal care home, where she eventually died nine days after having reached the age of 114. The people close to her attributed her [[longevity]] to positive thinking.<ref name="latimes20080324" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=Flick|first1=David|title=Dallas woman, 114, says she lived cleanly, kept to herself|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-oldestalive_08met.ART0.State.Edition2.4672894.html|accessdate=29 December 2015|publisher=Dallas Morning News|date=March 8, 2008|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20090126030649/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-oldestalive_08met.ART0.State.Edition2.4672894.html|archivedate=January 26, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Nielsen|first1=Jon|title=Family's 'diamond' turning 111|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/southdallas/stories/DN-ewing_13met.ART.State.Edition2.90ffa9a.html|publisher=Dallas Morning News|date=March 13, 2006|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025005642/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/southdallas/stories/DN-ewing_13met.ART.State.Edition2.90ffa9a.html|archivedate=October 25, 2008}}</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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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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===George Francis=== |
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George Rene Francis (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008)<ref name="georgefrancis">{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-francis29-2008dec29-story.html |title=George Francis, oldest man in the United States, dies at 112 |website=latimes.com |publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=December 29, 2008 |accessdate=September 12, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Oldest man in the US dies in Sacramento at 112 |author=Jason Dearen |url=http://www.sacbee.com/827/story/1503198.html |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130815204613/http://www.sacbee.com/827/story/1503198.html |dead-url=yes |archive-date=August 15, 2013 |agency=Associated Press |work=The Sacramento Bee |publisher=The McClatchy Company |location=Sacramento, CA |date=December 28, 2008 |accessdate=November 3, 2010 |quote=Francis died Saturday of congestive heart failure at a nursing home in Sacramento }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM |title=Recent Deaths for 2008 |accessdate=November 3, 2010 |work=Gerontology Research Group |publisher=GRG Interactive |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.grg.org%2FAdams%2FE.HTM&date=2007-12-01 |archivedate=December 1, 2007 |df=mdy }}</ref> was an American supercentenarian and the joint second-oldest living man in the world, together with Englishman [[Henry Allingham]], until Francis's death aged 112 years, 204 days. He was also the oldest living man in the United States, following the death of [[Antonio Pierro]] on February 8, 2007. Francis was from [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], but since 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 |title= The Black Man's Plea for Justice |url= http://spontaneousoverflow.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/GeorgeFrancisPOEM.source.prod_affiliate.4.pdf|format= PDF |work= The Sacramento Bee |publisher= The McClatchy Company |location= Sacramento, CA |accessdate=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|author=Stephen Magagnini |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 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607234415/http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/204734.html |archivedate=June 7, 2007}}</ref> |
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===Delphia Welford=== |
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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 100 pounds (45.35 kg)). Despite this, he later was a boxer before becoming a barber and then a chauffeur.<ref name="georgefrancis" /> Francis claimed to have met [[Louis Armstrong]] and [[Booker T. Washington]] and to have seen [[Babe Ruth]] hit a home run. His wife died in 1964. |
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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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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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===Shelby Harris=== |
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Shelby Harris (March 31, 1901{{snd}}July 25, 2012),<ref name="AA" /> an [[African American]], was the oldest verified man in the [[United States]] (since the death of [[Walter Breuning]] on April 14, 2011), the third-oldest man in the world and [[Illinois]]'s oldest living person at the time of his death.<ref name="AA">[http://qctimes.com/news/local/shelby-harris-nation-s-oldest-man-dies-at/article_33ad6aae-d683-11e1-a4c3-0019bb2963f4.html Kay Luna, "Shelby Harris, nation's oldest man, dies in RI"], ''Quad-City Times'', July 25, 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.army.mil/article/54067/king-for-the-day-veteran-celebrates-110-years/ "King for the day, veteran celebrates 110 years"] by Rikeshia Davidson, The United States Army (March 30, 2011). Retrieved June 27, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179541/Americas-oldest-man-Shelby-Harris-dies-age-111--old-romantic-cited-love-secret-long-life.html |title=America's oldest man dies age 111... and the old romantic cited love as the secret to his long life |publisher=Dailymail.co.uk |date=2012-07-26 |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref> |
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Welford died at Parkview Manor Health Care Center in Humboldt, on 14 November 1992 at the age of 117 years, 66 days. |
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A native of [[Ayrshire, Indiana]], Harris worked in coal mines and a [[foundry]]. At 41 he joined the Army for [[World War II]], but a broken ankle ended his training. A [[deacon]] of his church until he was 102, Harris entered a [[Rock Island, Illinois|Rock Island]] nursing home at 105. At his death he was a great-great-great-grandfather, his youngest grandson was 57 years old.<ref>[http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_39f24afc-6a95-11e0-ad3f-001cc4c03286.html Rashah McChesney, "RI man celebrates his 110th birthday"], ''Quad-City Times'', April 19, 2011.</ref> Harris died on July 25, 2012, aged 111 years, 116 days.<ref name="AA" /> |
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<ref name=2024-Deaths>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/supercentenarians-deaths-in-2024/ |title=Supercentenarian deaths in 2024 |publisher=[[Gerontology Research Group]] |access-date=May 12, 2024}}</ref> |
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<ref name=GRG-2020>{{cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/2020-validations/ |title=2020 validations |publisher=[[Gerontology Research Group]] |access-date=May 12, 2024}}</ref> |
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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 27, 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, 115 days. The oldest American resident is listed as Elizabeth Francis (born in Houston, Texas, on July 25, 1909), aged 114 years, 338 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, 115 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, 338 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
|
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
|
January 14, 1909 | May 17, 2023[27] | 114 years, 123 days | Georgia | Georgia |
Pearl Berg[7] | F
|
October 1, 1909 | February 1, 2024[28] | Indiana | California | ||
58 | Anna Henderson[5] | F
|
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
|
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
|
December 28, 1878 | April 14, 1993 | 114 years, 107 days | Texas | Arizona |
65 | Florence Knapp[1] | F
|
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
|
February 10, 1887 | May 13, 2001 | 114 years, 92 days | Kentucky | Kentucky |
68 | Minnie Whicker[5] | F
|
July 24, 1906 | October 22, 2020 | 114 years, 90 days | Arkansas | California |
69 | Delma Kollar[5] | F
|
October 31, 1897 | January 24, 2012 | 114 years, 85 days | Kansas | Oregon |
70 | Ila Jones[5] | F
|
August 21, 1903 | November 10, 2017 | 114 years, 81 days | Georgia | Georgia |
71 | Maggie Renfro[5] | F
|
November 14, 1895 | January 22, 2010 | 114 years, 69 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
72 | Emma Tillman[1] | F
|
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
|
February 1, 1898 | April 1, 2012 | 114 years, 60 days | Georgia | Georgia |
75 | Adele Dunlap[1] | F
|
December 12, 1902 | February 5, 2017[30] | 114 years, 55 days | New Jersey | New Jersey |
76 | Naomi Conner[1] | F
|
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
|
December 18, 1877 | January 24, 1992 | 114 years, 37 days | Texas | Texas |
79 | Ellen Goodwill[5] | F
|
February 2, 1907 | March 2, 2021[32] | 114 years, 28 days | Kentucky | Michigan |
80 | Grace Thaxton[1] | F
|
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
|
March 13, 1894 | March 22, 2008 | 114 years, 9 days | Texas | Texas |
84 | Catherine Hagel[5] | F
|
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
|
January 20, 1889 | December 29, 2002 | 113 years, 343 days | New York | New York |
91 | Ellen Thomas[33] | F
|
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, 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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