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] The oldest American alive is Alelia Murphy (born Grifton, North Carolina, July 6, 1905), aged 118 years, 356 days.[2] The longest-lived person ever from the United States was Sarah Knauss, of Hollywood, Pennsylvania, who died on December 30, 1999, aged 119 years, 97 days.[3][4]
Living
Disputed
Below is a list of supercentenarians who are currently[citation needed] alive in the United States, from oldest to youngest.
No. | Name | Sex | Birth date | Age as of June 26, 2024 | Birthplace | Residence |
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1 | Maggie Kidd[5] | F | December 8, 1904 | 119 years, 201 days | Georgia | Georgia |
2 | Alelia Murphy[2] | F | July 6, 1905 | 118 years, 356 days | North Carolina | New York |
3 | Hester Ford[2] | F | August 15, 1905 | 118 years, 316 days | South Carolina | North Carolina |
4 | Iris Westman[2] | F | August 28, 1905 | 118 years, 303 days | North Dakota | North Dakota |
5 | Mazie Ford[2] | F | June 28, 1906 | 117 years, 364 days | Pennsylvania | Florida |
6 | Irene Dutton[2] | F | July 16, 1906 | 117 years, 346 days | Michigan | Michigan |
7 | Minnie Whicker[2] | F | July 24, 1906 | 117 years, 338 days | Arkansas | California |
8 | Thelma Sutcliffe[2] | F | October 1, 1906 | 117 years, 269 days | Nebraska | Nebraska |
9 | Louise Schaaf[2] | F | October 16, 1906 | 117 years, 254 days | Germany | Illinois |
10 | Beulah Meloche[6] | F | November 23, 1906 | 117 years, 216 days | New York | New York |
11 | Ellen Goodwill[7] | F | February 2, 1907 | 117 years, 145 days | Kentucky | Michigan |
12 | Maria Branyas Morera[8] | F | March 4, 1907 | 117 years, 114 days | California | Spain |
13 | Ardith Grose[9] | F | March 22, 1907 | 117 years, 96 days | ? | Pennsylvania |
14 | Sixta Tulia Aguinaga de Posada[10][11] | F | April 22, 1907 | 117 years, 65 days | Colombia | New York |
15 | Voncile Dry[12][13] | F | April 24, 1907 | 117 years, 63 days | Florida | Florida |
16 | Opal Goode[14][15] | F | June 3, 1907 | 117 years, 23 days | Oklahoma | California |
17 | Lona Collins[16] | F | June 18, 1907 | 117 years, 8 days | Oklahoma | Ohio |
18 | Evelyn Kleine[17] | F | July 11, 1907 | 116 years, 351 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
19 | Ethel Sinclaire[18] | F | August 14, 1907 | 116 years, 317 days | Georgia | Georgia |
20 | Maude Harris[19] | F | August 15, 1907 | 116 years, 316 days | Minnesota | Florida |
21 | Laura Oblitas[20] | F | August 24, 1907 | 116 years, 307 days | New Jersey | New Jersey |
22 | C. P. Crawford[21] | M | August 25, 1907 | 116 years, 306 days | Mississippi | Illinois |
23 | Bessie Hendricks[22] | F | November 7, 1907 | 116 years, 232 days | Iowa | Iowa |
24 | Downing Jett Kay[23] | F | November 23, 1907 | 116 years, 216 days | Maryland | Maryland |
25 | Suzy Ford[24] | F | December 24, 1907 | 116 years, 185 days | Missouri | Missouri |
26 | Christine Ireland[25] | F | January 19, 1908 | 116 years, 159 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
27 | Edna Runyon[26] | F | January 25, 1908 | 116 years, 153 days | Arkansas | Arkansas |
28 | Stella Lennox[27] | F | January 31, 1908 | 116 years, 147 days | North Dakota | Illinois |
29 | Edie Ceccarelli[28] | F | February 5, 1908 | 116 years, 142 days | California | California |
30 | Willie Mae Hardy[29] | F | March 11, 1908 | 116 years, 107 days | Georgia | Georgia |
31 | Mary Johnson[30][31] | F | April 7, 1908 | 116 years, 80 days | Arkansas | Missouri |
32 | Erna Zahn[32] | F | April 14, 1908 | 116 years, 73 days | Wisconsin | Minnesota |
33 | Avicia Thorpe[33] | F | April 16, 1908 | 116 years, 71 days | Virginia | Virginia |
34 | Gertrude Ellison[34] | F | May 16, 1908 | 116 years, 41 days | North Dakota | Washington |
35 | Sun Choe[35] | F | May 28, 1908 | 116 years, 29 days | Korea | New Jersey |
36 | Hazel Ventling[36] | F | June 5, 1908 | 116 years, 21 days | Iowa | Iowa |
37 | Ruby Staley[37] | F | June 8, 1908 | 116 years, 18 days | Maryland | Maryland |
38 | Hazel Plummer[38] | F | June 19, 1908 | 116 years, 7 days | Massachusetts | Massachusetts |
39 | Charlotte Strehlow[39] | F | July 18, 1908 | 115 years, 344 days | Nebraska | Wisconsin |
40 | Hazel Nilson[40] | F | August 21, 1908 | 115 years, 310 days | Illinois | New Hampshire |
41 | Isadora Byrd[41] | F | August 22, 1908 | 115 years, 309 days | ? | South Carolina |
42 | Mamie Kirkland[42] | F | September 3, 1908 | 115 years, 297 days | ? | New York |
Marie LeVan[43] | F | September 3, 1908 | 115 years, 297 days | Pennsylvania | Connecticut | |
44 | Matilda Gwynn[44] | F | September 18, 1908 | 115 years, 282 days | ? | Maryland |
45 | Esther Wittenburg[45] | F | September 27, 1908 | 115 years, 273 days | ? | Iowa |
46 | Pauline Angleman[46] | F | October 4, 1908 | 115 years, 266 days | Oklahoma | California |
47 | Barbara Barton[47] | F | October 12, 1908 | 115 years, 258 days | Rhode Island | Rhode Island |
48 | Mary LaValle[48] | F | November 17, 1908 | 115 years, 222 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
49 | Naomi Curtright[49] | F | December 4, 1908 | 115 years, 205 days | Missouri | Missouri |
50 | Irving Piken[50] | M | December 20, 1908 | 115 years, 189 days | New York | California |
51 | Irene Miller[51] | F | December 28, 1908 | 115 years, 181 days | Massachusetts | Massachusetts |
52 | Maria de la Talamantes[52] | F | January 11, 1909 | 115 years, 167 days | Mexico | Texas |
53 | Modesto Lopez Bautista[53] | M | January 17, 1909 | 115 years, 161 days | Mexico | California |
54 | Ruth Grant[54] | F | February 25, 1909 | 115 years, 122 days | New York | New York |
55 | Violet Cave[55] | F | February 28, 1909 | 115 years, 119 days | Barbados | New York |
Mabel Nesmith[56] | F | February 28, 1909 | 115 years, 119 days | Texas | Colorado | |
57 | Lottie Sullivan[57] | F | March 8, 1909 | 115 years, 110 days | Texas | Texas |
58 | Virginia McLaurin[58] | F | March 12, 1909 | 115 years, 106 days | South Carolina | District of Columbia |
59 | Charlotte Jordan[59] | F | March 15, 1909 | 115 years, 103 days | Tennessee | Tennessee |
60 | Annabelle Hoblinger[60] | F | March 16, 1909 | 115 years, 102 days | New York | Colorado |
61 | Mary Coffey[61] | F | March 20, 1909 | 115 years, 98 days | Kentucky | Texas |
62 | Elizabeth Lucas[62] | F | April 5, 1909 | 115 years, 82 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
63 | Margaret Ritchey[63] | F | April 7, 1909 | 115 years, 80 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
100 oldest American people ever
Below is a list of the longest lived American supercentenarians according to the GRG.[1][64]
Deceased
Living
Unranked entries have not yet been validated by the GRG.
Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age | Birthplace | Place of death or residence |
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1 | Sarah Knauss[1] | F | September 24, 1880 | December 30, 1999 | 119 years, 97 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
2 | Lucy Hannah[1] | F | July 16, 1875 | March 21, 1993 | 117 years, 248 days | Alabama | Michigan |
3 | Susannah Mushatt Jones[64] | F | July 6, 1899 | May 12, 2016 | 116 years, 311 days | Alabama | New York |
4 | Gertrude Weaver[64] | F | July 4, 1898 | April 6, 2015 | 116 years, 276 days | Arkansas | Arkansas |
5 | Elizabeth Bolden[1] | F | August 15, 1890 | December 11, 2006 | 116 years, 118 days | Tennessee | Tennessee |
6 | Besse Cooper[64] | F | August 26, 1896 | December 4, 2012 | 116 years, 100 days | Tennessee | Georgia |
7 | Jeralean Talley[64] | F | May 23, 1899 | June 17, 2015 | 116 years, 25 days | Georgia | Michigan |
8 | Maggie Barnes[1] | F | March 6, 1882 | January 19, 1998 | 115 years, 319 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
9 | Dina Manfredini[64] | F | April 4, 1897 | December 17, 2012 | 115 years, 257 days | Italy | Iowa |
10 | Christian Mortensen[1] | M | August 16, 1882 | April 25, 1998 | 115 years, 252 days | Denmark | California |
11 | Edna Parker[64] | F | April 20, 1893 | November 26, 2008 | 115 years, 220 days | Indiana | Indiana |
12 | Margaret Skeete[1] | F | October 27, 1878 | May 7, 1994 | 115 years, 192 days | Texas | Virginia |
13 | Bernice Madigan[64] | F | July 24, 1899 | January 3, 2015 | 115 years, 163 days | Massachusetts | Massachusetts |
14 | Gertrude Baines[64] | F | April 6, 1894 | September 11, 2009 | 115 years, 158 days | Georgia | California |
15 | Bettie Wilson[1] | F | September 13, 1890 | February 13, 2006 | 115 years, 153 days | Mississippi | Mississippi |
16 | Marie Josephine Gaudette[64] | F | March 25, 1902 | July 13, 2017 | 115 years, 110 days | New Hampshire | Italy |
17 | Susie Gibson[1] | F | October 31, 1890 | February 16, 2006 | 115 years, 108 days | Mississippi | Alabama |
18 | Augusta Holtz[64] | F | August 3, 1871 | October 21, 1986 | 115 years, 79 days | Prussia[a] | Missouri |
19 | Maude Farris-Luse[1] | F | January 21, 1887 | March 18, 2002 | 115 years, 56 days | Michigan | Michigan |
20 | Antonia Gerena Rivera[64] | F | May 19, 1900 | June 2, 2015 | 115 years, 14 days | Puerto Rico[b] | Florida |
21 | Mary Bidwell[1] | F | May 19, 1881 | April 25, 1996 | 114 years, 342 days | Connecticut | Connecticut |
Ophelia Burks[66] | F | October 25, 1903 | September 27, 2018 | 114 years, 337 days | Louisiana | Louisiana | |
22 | Mary Josephine Ray[64] | F | May 17, 1895 | March 7, 2010 | 114 years, 294 days | Canada | New Hampshire |
23 | Goldie Steinberg[64] | F | October 30, 1900 | August 16, 2015 | 114 years, 290 days | Moldova[c] | New York |
24 | Delphine Gibson[64] | F | August 17, 1903 | May 9, 2018 | 114 years, 265 days | South Carolina | Pennsylvania |
25 | Neva Morris[64] | F | August 3, 1895 | April 6, 2010 | 114 years, 246 days | Iowa | Iowa |
26 | Blanche Cobb[64] | F | September 8, 1900 | May 1, 2015 | 114 years, 235 days | Georgia | Florida |
27 | Mathew Beard[1] | M | July 9, 1870 | February 16, 1985 | 114 years, 222 days | Virginia | Florida |
28 | Carrie Lazenby[1] | F | February 9, 1882 | September 14, 1996 | 114 years, 218 days | Georgia | Illinois |
29 | Myrtle Dorsey[1] | F | November 22, 1885 | June 25, 2000 | 114 years, 216 days | Ohio | Ohio |
30 | Walter Breuning[64] | M | September 21, 1896 | April 14, 2011 | 114 years, 205 days | Minnesota | Montana |
31 | Eunice Sanborn[64] | F | July 20, 1896 | January 31, 2011 | 114 years, 195 days | Louisiana | Texas |
32 | Grace Clawson[1] | F | November 15, 1887 | May 28, 2002 | 114 years, 194 days | United Kingdom | New York |
33 | Wilhelmina Kott[1] | F | March 7, 1880 | September 6, 1994 | 114 years, 183 days | Illinois | Illinois |
Adelina Domingues[1] | F | February 19, 1888 | August 21, 2002 | Cape Verde[d] | California | ||
35 | Charlotte Benkner[1] | F | November 16, 1889 | May 14, 2004 | 114 years, 180 days | Germany | Ohio |
36 | Ettie Mae Greene[1] | F | September 8, 1877 | February 26, 1992 | 114 years, 171 days | West Virginia | West Virginia |
37 | Dominga Velasco[64] | F | May 12, 1901 | October 11, 2015 | 114 years, 152 days | Mexico | California |
38 | Irene Frank[1] | F | October 1, 1881 | February 28, 1996 | 114 years, 150 days | Texas | Missouri |
39 | Olivia Patricia Thomas[64] | F | June 29, 1895 | November 16, 2009 | 114 years, 140 days | Iowa | New York |
40 | Anna Henderson[64] | F | March 5, 1900 | July 1, 2014 | 114 years, 118 days | Georgia | Pennsylvania |
41 | Emma Verona Johnston[1] | F | August 6, 1890 | December 1, 2004 | 114 years, 117 days | Iowa | Ohio |
Mamie Rearden[1] | F | September 7, 1898 | January 2, 2013 | South Carolina | Georgia | ||
43 | Bettie Chatmon[1] | F | April 30, 1884 | August 16, 1998 | 114 years, 108 days | Louisiana | Texas |
Lessie Brown[2] | F | September 22, 1904 | January 8, 2019 | Georgia | Ohio | ||
45 | Odie Matthews[1] | F | December 28, 1878 | April 14, 1993 | 114 years, 107 days | Texas | Arizona |
46 | Florence Knapp[1] | F | October 10, 1873 | January 11, 1988 | 114 years, 93 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
Elena Slough[1] | F | July 4, 1889 | October 5, 2003 | Pennsylvania | New Jersey | ||
48 | Mary Anna Boone[1] | F | February 10, 1887 | May 13, 2001 | 114 years, 92 days | Kentucky | Kentucky |
49 | Delma Kollar[64] | F | October 31, 1897 | January 24, 2012 | 114 years, 85 days | Kansas | Oregon |
50 | Ila Jones[64] | F | August 21, 1903 | November 10, 2017 | 114 years, 81 days | Georgia | Georgia |
51 | Maggie Renfro[64] | F | November 14, 1895 | January 22, 2010 | 114 years, 69 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
52 | Emma Tillman[1] | F | November 22, 1892 | January 28, 2007 | 114 years, 67 days | North Carolina | Connecticut |
Anna Stoehr[64] | F | October 15, 1900 | December 21, 2014 | Iowa | Minnesota | ||
54 | Leila Denmark[64] | F | February 1, 1898 | April 1, 2012 | 114 years, 60 days | Georgia | Georgia |
55 | Adele Dunlap[64] | F | December 12, 1902 | February 5, 2017 | 114 years, 55 days | New Jersey | New Jersey |
56 | Naomi Conner[64] | F | August 30, 1899 | October 18, 2013 | 114 years, 49 days | Texas [67] | Texas |
Ora Holland[64] | F | December 24, 1900 | February 11, 2015 | Missouri | Oklahoma | ||
58 | Grace Thaxton[1] | F | June 18, 1891 | July 6, 2005 | 114 years, 18 days | New York | Kentucky |
59 | Soledad Mexia[64] | F | August 13, 1899 | August 30, 2013 | 114 years, 17 days | Mexico | California |
60 | Minnie Ward[1] | F | November 19, 1885 | December 2, 1999 | 114 years, 13 days | Tennessee | Massachusetts |
61 | Arbella Ewing[64] | F | March 13, 1894 | March 22, 2008 | 114 years, 9 days | Texas | Texas |
62 | Catherine Hagel[64] | F | November 28, 1894 | December 6, 2008 | 114 years, 8 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
63 | Emma Otis[64] | F | October 22, 1901 | October 25, 2015 | 114 years, 3 days | Washington | Washington |
64 | Fred Hale[1] | M | December 1, 1890 | November 19, 2004 | 113 years, 354 days | Maine | New York |
65 | Miriam Carpelan[1] | F | July 8, 1882 | June 22, 1996 | 113 years, 350 days | United Kingdom | California |
Elsie Thompson[64] | F | April 5, 1899 | March 21, 2013 | Pennsylvania | Florida | ||
67 | Bertha Fry[1] | F | December 1, 1893 | November 14, 2007 | 113 years, 348 days | Indiana | Indiana |
68 | Mae Harrington[1] | F | January 20, 1889 | December 29, 2002 | 113 years, 343 days | New York | New York |
69 | Daisey Bailey[64] | F | March 30, 1896 | March 7, 2010 | 113 years, 342 days | Tennessee | Michigan |
70 | Agatha Mitchell[1] | F | March 26, 1887 | February 25, 2001 | 113 years, 336 days | Virginia | Virginia |
71 | Goldie Michelson[64] | F | August 8, 1902 | July 8, 2016 | 113 years, 335 days | Ukraine[e] | Massachusetts |
72 | Merle Barwis[64] | F | December 23, 1900 | November 22, 2014 | 113 years, 334 days | Iowa | Canada |
73 | Clara Huhn[1] | F | January 28, 1887 | December 20, 2000 | 113 years, 327 days | Nebraska | California |
74 | Corinne Dixon Taylor[1] | F | April 2, 1893 | February 14, 2007 | 113 years, 318 days | District of Columbia | District of Columbia |
75 | Mary Christian[1] | F | June 12, 1889 | April 20, 2003 | 113 years, 312 days | Massachusetts | California |
76 | Ruth Newman[64] | F | September 23, 1901 | July 29, 2015 | 113 years, 309 days | California | California |
77 | Evelyn Kozak[64] | F | August 14, 1899 | June 11, 2013 | 113 years, 301 days | New York | New York |
78 | Louisiana Hines[64] | F | April 13, 1899 | February 1, 2013 | 113 years, 294 days | Alabama | Michigan |
79 | Mississippi Wynn[64] | F | March 31, 1897 | January 14, 2011 | 113 years, 289 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
80 | Fannie Thomas[1] | F | April 14, 1867 | January 22, 1981 | 113 years, 283 days | Illinois | California |
81 | Opal Thompson[64] | F | January 13, 1901 | October 20, 2014 | 113 years, 280 days | Oklahoma | California |
82 | Johnson Parks[1] | M | October 15, 1884 | July 17, 1998 | 113 years, 275 days | Georgia | Florida |
83 | Alelia Murphy[2] | F | July 6, 1905 | Living | 118 years, 356 days | North Carolina | New York |
84 | Mary Parr[1] | F | January 29, 1889 | October 29, 2002 | 113 years, 273 days | Indiana | Florida |
85 | Beatrice Farve[64] | F | April 30, 1895 | January 19, 2009 | 113 years, 264 days | Georgia | Georgia |
86 | Amalia Barone[1] | F | October 6, 1884 | June 26, 1998 | 113 years, 263 days | Italy | Connecticut |
87 | Zora Wriggle[1] | F | February 24, 1880 | November 7, 1993 | 113 years, 256 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
88 | John Ingram McMorran[1] | M | June 19, 1889 | February 24, 2003 | 113 years, 250 days | Michigan | Florida |
89 | Mary McKinney[1] | F | May 30, 1873 | February 2, 1987 | 113 years, 248 days | California | California |
90 | Ella Schuler[64] | F | September 5, 1897 | May 7, 2011 | 113 years, 244 days | Nebraska | Kansas |
91 | Gladys Swetland[1] | F | April 18, 1892 | December 14, 2005 | 113 years, 240 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
92 | Hester Ford[2] | F | August 15, 1905 | Living | 118 years, 316 days | South Carolina | North Carolina |
93 | Meta Dishman[64] | F | June 1, 1903 | January 20, 2017 | 113 years, 233 days | Virginia | Virginia |
94 | Mary Randall[1] | F | April 1, 1887 | November 12, 2000 | 113 years, 225 days | Arkansas | Texas |
95 | Iris Westman[2] | F | August 28, 1905 | Living | 118 years, 303 days | North Dakota | North Dakota |
96 | Delina Filkins[1] | F | May 4, 1815 | December 4, 1928 | 113 years, 214 days | New York | New York |
97 | Mary Kelly[1] | F | June 7, 1851 | December 30, 1964 | 113 years, 206 days | Michigan | California |
98 | Nelle Hunt[1] | F | July 28, 1887 | February 8, 2001 | 113 years, 195 days | Missouri | Missouri |
Helen Stetter[1] | F | November 18, 1893 | June 1, 2007 | Nebraska | Nebraska | ||
100 | Carrie Hardrick[1] | F | November 6, 1887 | May 14, 2001 | 113 years, 189 days | Texas | Texas |
Biographies
Ann Pouder
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Ann Pouder (April 8, 1807 – July 10, 1917) was one of the first modernly recognized supercentenarians. Her age at death was 110 years, 93 days.[68] When Pouder was twelve years old, her family emigrated to the United States, making her British American. There she lived the following 98 years of her life in Baltimore, Maryland. She married Nepalese American Alexander Pouder, although became a widow very early and had no children. Her extreme longevity claim was certified by Alexander Graham Bell.[69] In her last few months, she was bedridden, blind, and almost deaf, but her mind remained sharp.[70]
Lucy Hannah
Lucy Hannah (née Terrell;[71] July 16, 1875 (August 12, 1895?) – March 21, 1993) was an African American supercentenarian. Hannah was the second-oldest person from the United States and the world's fourth-oldest verified person, after Jeanne Calment, Sarah Knauss and Nabi Tajima. She was also the oldest person never to have held the title of the world's oldest living person, since Jeanne Calment, who was about five months older, was still alive at the time of Hannah's death.[72]
Before her death, Hannah claimed to be 118, but investigation by the Social Security Administration's "Kestenbaum" study in 2003 determined that her age at death was actually 117 years, 248 days.[72]
At the time of her death in March 1993, Hannah was recognized as the oldest American ever and second oldest person ever whose age has been verified, behind only Jeanne Calment. However, Shigechiyo Izumi was still believed to be older at the time of Hannah's death.[71][73]Izumi’s record was withdrawn by Guinness World Records in 2010.
Mary Bidwell
Mary Electa Bidwell (May 19, 1881– April 25, 1996)[74] was an American supercentenarian. She died at age 114 years, 342 days on April 25, 1996. She is the oldest person on record ever to die in Connecticut.[75][76][77]
Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel.[76] 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.[75] 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.[74][77]
Maggie Barnes
Maggie Pauline Barnes (née Hinnant; March 6, 1882 – January 19, 1998)[78] was an American supercentenarian. She was a resident of Johnston County, North Carolina. Barnes died from complications following a minor foot infection.[79] Barnes, who was born to a former slave and married a tenant farmer, was survived by four of her fifteen children.[79]
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.[79] Authenticating to the latest of those dates, Barnes was 115 years, 319 days old when she died.
Charlotte Benkner
Charlotte Benkner (née Enterlein; November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004)[80][81][82][83] was an American supercentenarian and 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.[80] The subsequent recognition of María Capovilla of Ecuador in December 2005 placed Benkner at third oldest at the time of her death.[81][82]
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 President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt.[83][84] 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.[83] She became the oldest recognized person in the United States when 114-year-old Elena Slough died in October 2003.[85] 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.[84] Benkner survived her sister by only four months, dying at age 114 years 180 days after she was briefly hospitalized in Youngstown, Ohio, and was buried in Peekskill.[80][81]
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.[86] 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;[87][88][89] at the time of her death, she was the University's oldest living graduate.[87]
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.[90] She became the "oldest living American" when 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.[91] 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."[89] Johnston died in Worthington, Ohio on December 1, 2004,[86] at age 114 years, 117 days.
Bettie Wilson
Bettie Antry Wilson (née Rutherford; September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006)[92] was thought to be the oldest verified living person in the United States upon the death of 114-year-old 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.
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. Wilson celebrated her 115th birthday in September 2005, at which time she ranked as the third-oldest living person in the world. Wilson died at her New Albany home on February 13, 2006, aged 115 years, 153 days. She was survived by her son, five grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, 95 great-great-grandchildren and 38 great-great-great grandchildren.[92]
George Francis
George Rene Francis (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008)[93][94][95] 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, 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.[96] 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.[97]
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.[93]
Notes
- ^ 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 25 April 1898 are United States citizens.[65]
- ^ Steinberg was born in Kishinev, which had then been a part of the Russian Empire; it is now located in Moldova
- ^ Domingues was born in Cape Verde, which was at that time a Portuguese colony. Now it is an independent country.
- ^ Michelson was born in a part of Ukraine, which was then part of the Russian Empire.
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