List of supercentenarians from the United States
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This is a list of supercentenarians from the United States. According to the GRG
, there have been over 500 verified American
supercentenarians (people from the United States
who have attained the age of 110 or greater.) As of , GRG lists 22 verified living supercentenarians. GRG lists people as living supercentenarians if their age has been "validated" and they have been confirmed to be alive within the past year. In addition, 5 American cases are considered "pending" and 34 "unverified." The oldest living verified supercentenarian from the United States is Besse Cooper
, age . The oldest person ever from the United States was Sarah Knauss
, who died on December 30, 1999, at age 119 years 97 days.
a Zohos was born in the Kingdom of Greece
. It is now Greece.
b Steinberg was born in Kishinev, which was then part of the Russian Empire
. It is now in Moldova.
c Rich was born in Vienna, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. It is now in Austria.
. Those indicated as 'pending' are backed by at least one document reviewed by GRG supporting the reported age, but not, the three necessary for validation by that institution. Those shown as 'disputed' are not backed by documentation supporting the reported age to the standards of GRG. **In the case of Moses Hardy
, he has been validated by GRG to at least the age of 112 years, 335 days. As of , of the 34, verified living supercentenarians who have reached the age of 112+ in the world, 13 are residing in the United States
.
a Stefan was born in Siebenbürgen, which was then part of Hungary. It is now in Romania
.
Those entries color-coded as "verified" have been validated by GRG. Those color-coded as 'pending' are backed by at least one document reviewed by GRG supporting the reported age, but not the three necessary for validation by that institution. Those color-coded as 'unverified' are not (yet) backed by documentation supporting the reported age to the standards of GRG.
Ann Pouder née
Ann Alexander (London, United Kingdom April 8, 1807 – Baltimore, Maryland, United States July 10, 1917) was one of the first recognized supercentenarians in the world. Her age at death was . When Pouder was twelve years old her family immigrated to the United States. There she lived the following 98 years of her life in Baltimore, Maryland. She married, although became a widow very early and had no children. Her extreme longevity claim was certified by Alexander Graham Bell
. In her last few months, she was bedridden, blind and almost deaf, but her mind remained sharp.
as the oldest living American supercentenarian. As the Shigechiyo Izumi
case was later disputed, Thomas may in fact have been the world's oldest person when she died at 113 years and 283 days. Regardless, she was still the world's oldest living woman at the time of her death.
as the oldest undisputed American-born male. The oldest undisputed person from Virginia is Agatha Mitchell.
At the time of Beard's death, he was the second oldest man ever; he is currently the fourth. He is also the oldest man to not have held the title of oldest living man.
Beard is the second oldest person to die in Florida, being surpassed only by the also disputed case of Carrie C. White. Shigechiyo Izumi
was credited as the oldest living man (and person) at the time of Beard's death but his case is no longer accepted.
(2007 edition) as one of the top 15 world's oldest living people at the time. Her ranking had been tied for 12th before she died at the age of 112 years and 268 days, which at the time was older than the then oldest living persons in France (112), the United Kingdom (111) and Germany (110). Born Florence Wilker, she married Arthur Homan in 1941. He died in 1988. Due to the late marriage, they had no children. She lived on her own until age 105, when she moved into a nursing home.
in September 1986, she became the "world's oldest person" according to the Guinness Book of Records. However, her own death five months later in Sacramento, California
meant that she never appeared in the record book, even though her Guinness recognition made the news. She lived for 113 years and 248 days.
as the oldest person in the world.
Born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania
, she lived in nearby Montgomery Square much of her life and came from a large and long-lived family, eight of her siblings dying in their 80s and 90s and one sister reaching age 108
.
By October 1987, when she was honored by the Pennsylvania legislature, she was recognized by Guinness as the oldest person in the United States, and the death of Anna Eliza Williams
on December 27, 1987 meant that Knapp became the oldest verified recognized living person. Her death just 15 days after meant that she never appeared in a Guinness Book as the oldest living person.
Her death caused some confusion as to who her successor was, with Guinness recognition and press publicity alighting first on Orpha Nusbaum (August 1875 – March 1988), who died before the 1989 edition's deadline, then Birdie May Vogt (August 1876 – July 1989), who appeared in the 1989 edition's main text, then Jeanne Calment
, mentioned in the addenda section, and finally in November 1988 on Carrie C. White, whose claim to birth in November 1874 was accepted. However, with recent census research calling White's authentication into question, Calment may very well have been Florence Knapp's actual immediate successor.
Knapp is listed as one of the 70 longest lived people ever; her lifespan is tied with that of Elena Slough.
on record on February 9, 2006, the previous record of 112 years, 241 days having been set by Katherine Jones in 1992, and died exactly two weeks after achieving this feat. She was born in Haven, Kansas
and died in Butler County
.
Page ranked as the sixth-oldest person in the U.S. and eleventh in the world when she died, aged 112 years and 255 days.
After graduating from high school, she taught at a one room school house near Lewis
, and later worked at the War Risk Insurance
Department in Washington, D.C. upon the start of World War I. Page married Fredric William Page in 1926, who died in 1967. She attributed her longevity
to living a moral life, and taking no medication whatsoever.
as the oldest person in the world around the time she celebrated her alleged 114th birthday in 1988. She held that title until her death in 1991, supposedly at the age of 116. However, her date of birth is disputed.
While a number of records give White's birthdate as November 18, 1874, none of these dates to before 1909, the year she was committed to the Florida State Hospital for the Insane by her husband, John White. The official diagnosis was "post typhoid psychosis", though this is uncertain; her caretakers felt that she showed no signs of mental illness serious enough to warrant institutionalization. If the 1874 date is correct, she would have been 35 years and one day old at the time. Abandoned by her family, White spent the next 75 years at the facility, until being moved to a nursing home
in Palatka, Florida
, in 1984. She remained there until she died in 1991.
All records giving White's date of birth November 18, 1874 date to after her hospital stay, and as such her date of birth is unconfirmed. A Census record exists for a Carrie Joyner born in Florida in 1873; if this were the same Carrie White she would have been 117 when she died, rather than 116. The Social Security Administration
found evidence of a Carrie Joyner born in August 1888 to John and Sallie Joyner. Researcher Heiner Maier suggests that this is a more likely match for the Carrie White who died in 1991; if so, she would have been 102 when she died. In this case Florida State Hospital may have simply made up the 1874 date, and later records replicated the error. However, the lack of information on White's early life means that her true date of birth cannot be confirmed unequivocally.
became the world's oldest living man.
(Note: this is a retroactive reconstruction of history. In reality, the Joe Thomas case was not verified until July 2002 by the SSA
study, and Guinness
did not recuperate the "oldest living man" category until 2000).
as the 'oldest living American' in its 1995 edition, following the death of Margaret Skeete
. 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 and subsequently died.
Her age was subject to a one-year discrepancy. Guinness recognized her as born in 1879 (based on the 1900 Census
), but later research by the SSA
study showed that she was listed as two months old in the 1880 Census
, making her age more likely 114, not 115.
As of October 2011, Kott is listed as one of the 60 longest lived people ever.
supercentenarian
. She died at age 114 years 342 days on April 25, 1996, making her the 30th oldest verified person ever. She was also the oldest person ever to die in Connecticut
.
Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel. She was a descendant of John Bidwell, one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut
. Bidwell worked as a teacher in a one-room school house for six years. She married Charles Hubbell Bidwell, a distant cousin, in 1906.
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
. She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1881.
person on record. Lazenby's record as the oldest person ever in Georgia was surpassed by Gertrude Baines
, on November 11, 2008.
As of July 2011, Lazenby is listed as one of the 45 longest lived people ever.
. Barnes died from complications following a minor foot infection. 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.
Some dispute exists as to her date of birth. Though the family Bible gives the 1882 date, she is listed as having been born in 1881 by the 1900 US Census, and she is listed as having been born in 1880 on her marriage license
. Authenticating to the latter of those dates, Barnes was 115 years, 319 days old when she died.
If the cases of Carrie C. White and Kamato Hongo
are excluded, Barnes is the 8th oldest person on record. She is also the oldest verified person who has died at 115.
As of December 2009, Barnes is listed as one of the 15 longest lived people ever.
Johnson Parks only held the oldest living man title for 85 days, making him one of the shortest tenure of oldest living man, but there are shorter: Herman Smith-Johannsen
held it for 22 days and Henry Allingham
for 29 days.
At the time of his death, Parks was the second oldest undisputed male ever, behind only Christian Mortensen
.
Parks is in the top 10 oldest men ever.
, she lived near Schuyler
for most of her life. She remained active, healthy and independent until the last few months of her life, and even answered an interview just before her 113th birthday. At age 113 years, 327 days, she is the oldest person on record born in Nebraska
, but she was not the oldest person on record to die in that particular state, since she died in La Mesa, California
. The title of the oldest person on record to die in Nebraska belongs to Helen Stetter
, who died on June 1, 2007 at age 113 years, 195 days.
Huhn is listed as one of the 100 longest lived people ever.
on February 9, 2008. Incidentally, Hagel was the sister-in-law of Dahlheimer. Hagel died on December 6, 2008 aged 114, the third-oldest living person in the world at the time.
, also 113, but her own record was subsequently broken in 2005 by Grace Thaxton, who was born in the state before moving to and dying in Kentucky. Because her age was not authenticated during her lifetime, the public recognition she was due went to another 113-year-old, Mary Parr
(January 29, 1889 – October 29, 2002), who was born nine days after her, dying two months before her, as her age was only validated posthumously.
Harrington is listed as one of the 95 longest lived people ever.
At her death, Harrington was the oldest living person in the United States, and may have been the oldest living person (the case of Kamato Hongo
remains doubtful).
After her death, Mary Christian became the oldest living person in the United States, and if the questionable case of Kamato Hongo
is excluded, Yukichi Chuganji
would have became the oldest living person, and the first man to hold that title since the disputed Shigechiyo Izumi
held the title for nearly a decade.
on April 20, 2003 until Slough's own death that following October, six months later. After her death, the oldest recognized person in the United States was Charlotte Benkner
.
Born in Horsham, Pennsylvania
, she married twice and had children by each marriage. Incidentally, 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.
As of December 2009, Slough is listed as one of the 70 longest lived people ever.
She was listed in the 2007 edition of Guinness World Records
as one of the top-15 oldest people in the world, and died in Jefferson, Ohio
.
(then a colony of Spain) to Spanish parents. She later emigrated
to the United States in 1960. She died stateside, aged 111 years and 282 days, as the result of an adverse reaction to a flu shot. Moreno-López holds the longevity
record for Morocco
, which declared its independence in 1956.
to be precise, and narrowly missed the all-time age record for a Kentucky resident of 114 years and 92 days, set by Mary Anna Boone in 2001, when she died in Winchester
from a bout of pneumonia
not long after her last birthday.
Moreover, her own mother (Harriet Menges née Hardenburgh) died at 109 (Aug 25, 1860 - Dec 1969), nearly a supercentenarian herself, and Thaxton almost lived to see her son Robert turn 90 on July 12, 2005. Thaxton is listed as one of the 85 longest lived people ever.
on December 1, 2004. She lost this designation when the age of Elizabeth Bolden
was verified in April 2005. Both were born in the rural South—where they lived less than 100 miles apart.
Born of freed slaves, 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). Her oldest son, Will Rogers, was said to have been born (October 27, 1909 – October 21, 2008) making him 98 years old himself at the time (although the 1930 census
lists him as 19 years old in April 1930, indicating that he was 95 instead). 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 the aforementioned son (1909–2008), five grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, 95 great-great-grandchildren and 38 great-great-great grandchildren.
As of May 2011, Wilson is listed as one of the 20 longest lived people ever.
, March 2, 2006) was an American supercentenarian. At an early age, she moved to Maine
, and later on to California.
On May 29, 2005, Marion was recognized as California's oldest living person, four weeks shy of 112, following the death of Margaret Russell, aged 112.
Her memory was remarkable for a person her age. She could remember from age one, and recite poems backwards.
Moreover, she wrote her first book herself at the 'tender' age of 102.
Marion died from congestive heart failure, aged 112 years and 249 days. She was ranked as sixth-oldest in the U.S. and 11th in the world at the time of her death.
, United States to Norwegian immigrant
parents. Grace was their 12th and last child, born when her mother was already 43 years old. She later married Charles Jones and started a family of her own. In 2005, Grace became the Virginia state recordholder for the oldest verified person born over there. She died at the age of 112 years and 324 days. At the time of her death, Jones ranked as the world's 10th-oldest person.
Moses Hardy
) for one month until his own death.
He had been living in Port Arthur, Texas
since the early 1930s. He opened a candy shop in the mid-1930s, and worked there for more than 60 years.
She was born in Itawamba County, Mississippi
. to Henry Jackson Spencer and Samantha Fikes Spencer. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Curtis Hankins; her brothers, Bobby, Kip, Grady, Chester and Curtis Spencer; and a son who died in infancy.
Hankins had been a resident of Aberdeen, Mississippi
from 1942 until 2000. She worked at Aberdeen Hospital and at Dr. Murphree's Clinic, and then a homemaker
until she was 104. Afterwards, she moved to West Point, Mississippi
, where she spent the last seven years of her life.
Delphia Hankins died at the Dugan Memorial Home in West Point.
At the time of her death she was survived by two daughters, Olema Poss of West Point and Kathryn Crump of Aberdeen; a son, W.D. Hankins of Aberdeen; twenty-seven grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; sixteen great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.
Born in Hungary, Stefan emigrated
to the United States in 1913. She is believed to be the oldest Hungarian ever. Stefan lived in a nursing home in Norwalk, Connecticut
, where she celebrated her 112th birthday in May 2007.
Stefan died aged 112 years and 332 days, just five weeks shy of her 113th birthday. At the time of her death, she was the seventh-oldest validated person in the world and the fifth-oldest validated person in the United States. She was survived by a daughter, grandchildren and a great-grandson.
, 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 Feb 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. 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.
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. 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. At the time of his death, Francis was listed as one of the 20 oldest verified men ever.
on September 11, 2009. Thomas was the second oldest American (and the oldest born in the United States, as Mary Josephine Ray
was born in Canada). She moved to Buffalo, New York
in 1946 and went on to become the oldest living person in the state of New York.
On October 25, 2009, Thomas became the oldest person born in Iowa, surpassing the 114 years, 117 lifespant of Emma Verona Johnston in 2004. On December 22, 2009, Neva Morris aged 114 years, 141 days surpassed Thomas as the oldest verified Iowan ever.
Thomas is listed as one of the 65 longest-lived people ever.
. Aged , she is the world's third oldest living person, behind American Besse Cooper
and Japan's Chiyono Hasegawa
. She is the oldest living Italian-born person. On April 4, 2011, she became the third Italian in history to reach age 114 and since the death of Venere Pizzinato on August 2, 2011 has being the oldest living Italian born person. Manfredini is one of the 50 oldest people ever recorded.
Born in Italy in the small centre of Pievepelago
in Emilia-Romagna, she moved to Des Moines, Iowa
in 1920 with her husband Riccardo Manfredini. The couple raised four children, three of whom are still living. She worked in an ammunition factory during World War II and was cleaning houses until she was 90, although she lied about her age so that people didn't think she was too old to work. Her husband died in 1965. After his death Dina lived alone until she moved into a retirement home when she was 110.
Manfredini has 7 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great grandchildren. At age 114, she is described as being in good health – although her hearing is bad – and can walk with the aid of a walker. She currently resides in Johnston, Iowa
at the Bishop Drumm Retirement Center
Gerontology Research Group
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, there have been over 500 verified American
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supercentenarians (people from the United States
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who have attained the age of 110 or greater.) As of , GRG lists 22 verified living supercentenarians. GRG lists people as living supercentenarians if their age has been "validated" and they have been confirmed to be alive within the past year. In addition, 5 American cases are considered "pending" and 34 "unverified." The oldest living verified supercentenarian from the United States is Besse Cooper
Besse Cooper
Besse Berry Cooper is an American supercentenarian. After the death of the Brazilian supercentenarian Maria Gomes Valentim on June 21, 2011, Cooper became the world's oldest living person...
, age . The oldest person ever from the United States was Sarah Knauss
Sarah Knauss
Sarah DeRemer Knauss was an American supercentenarian considered the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998, the date of the death of 117-year-old Canadian Marie-Louise Meilleur, until her own death...
, who died on December 30, 1999, at age 119 years 97 days.
Living American supercentenarians
Below is a list of the oldest living people from the United States. Those entries color-coded as "verified" have been validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). Those color-coded as "pending" are backed by at least one document reviewed by GRG supporting the reported age, but not the three necessary for validation by that institution. Those color-coded as "unverified" are not (yet) backed by any documentation supporting the reported age, to the standards of GRG. All but two "verified," "pending," and "unverified" supercentenarians listed below are women.| Rank | Name | Sex | Race | Reported birth date | Reported age | Place of birth | Place of residence |
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| 1 | Besse Cooper Besse Cooper Besse Berry Cooper is an American supercentenarian. After the death of the Brazilian supercentenarian Maria Gomes Valentim on June 21, 2011, Cooper became the world's oldest living person... |
F | W | August 26, 1896 | Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area... |
Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788... |
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| 2 | Dina Manfredini | F | W | April 4, 1897 | Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... |
Iowa Iowa Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New... |
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| 3 | Delma Kollar | F | W | October 31, 1897 | Kansas Kansas Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south... |
Oregon Oregon Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern... |
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| 4 | Leila Denmark, M.D. Leila Denmark Leila Alice Denmark is an American pediatrician. She was once the oldest practicing pediatrician in the world, until she retired in May 2001 at the age of 103. She is one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity... |
F | W | February 1, 1898 | Georgia | Georgia | |
| 5 | Mamie Rearden | F | B | September 7, 1898 | South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence... |
South Carolina | |
| Maggie James | F | B | March 10, 1899 | Virginia Virginia The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there... |
Virginia | ||
| 6 | Elsie Thompson | F | W | April 5, 1899 | Pennsylvania Pennsylvania The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to... |
Florida Florida Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it... |
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| Louisiana Hines | F | B | April 13, 1899 | Alabama | Michigan Michigan Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake".... |
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| Jeralean Talley | F | B | May 23, 1899 | Georgia | Michigan | ||
| 7 | Beryl Kapaun | F | W | June 4, 1899 | South Dakota South Dakota South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over... |
South Dakota | |
| 8 | Susannah Jones | F | B | July 6, 1899 | Alabama | New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east... |
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| 9 | Ruth Anderson | F | W | July 24, 1899 | Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state... |
Minnesota | |
| Bernice Madigan | F | W | July 24, 1899 | Massachusetts Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010... |
Massachusetts | ||
| 11 | Soledad Mexia Soledad Mexia Soledad Mexia is a supercentenarian now living in San Diego. She is the oldest verified living person born in Mexico and the oldest person in California.... |
F | H | August 13, 1899 | Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of... |
California | |
| 12 | Evelyn Kozak Evelyn Kozak Evelyn Kozak is an American supercentenarian, born in the Lower East Side of New York City. Her parents, Katie and Isaac Jacobson, had nine children. She grew up working for her family's business, as her father owned a paper box company.She moved to Miami after she got married... |
F | W | August 14, 1899 | New York | Pennsylvania | |
| Naomi Conner | F | W | August 30, 1899 | Texas Texas Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in... |
Texas | ||
| 13 | Meta Ilten | F | W | September 7, 1899 | Iowa | Iowa | |
| Ivory Ross-Lambert | F | B | September 16, 1899 | Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River... |
Arkansas | ||
| Emelie Weil | F | W | November 20, 1899 | Kentucky Kentucky The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth... |
Indiana | ||
| Charlotte Flowers | F | B | February 20, 1900 | Florida | Florida | ||
| 14 | Anna Henderson | F | B | March 5, 1900 | Georgia | Pennsylvania | |
| Mersene Zohos | F | W | March 16, 1900 | Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... |
Idaho Idaho Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state.... |
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| Louvenia Posey | F | B | April 5, 1900 | Texas | Texas | ||
| 15 | Amelia England | F | W | May 15, 1900 | United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
Massachusetts | |
| 16 | Avice Clarke | F | W | May 17, 1900 | United Kingdom | California | |
| 17 | Antonia Gerena Rivera | F | H | May 19, 1900 | Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an... |
Florida | |
| 18 | Frederica Sagor Maas Frederica Sagor Maas Frederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas is an American playwright, screenwriter, memoirist and author, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. Maas is best known for a detailed, tell-all memoir of her time spent in early Hollywood. She is one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other... |
F | W | July 6, 1900 | New York | California | |
| Mary Phelps | F | W | August 5, 1900 | Pennsylvania | Ohio Ohio Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus... |
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| Mary Belle McCaleb | F | W | September 6, 1900 | Texas | Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state... |
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| Blanch Cobb | F | B | September 8, 1900 | Georgia | Florida | ||
| Willie Lassiter | F | B | September 30, 1900 | North Carolina North Carolina North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte... |
Pennsylvania | ||
| Lula Gilbert | F | B | October 10, 1900 | Georgia | Georgia | ||
| Hager Mary Tartt | F | B | October 14, 1900 | Mississippi | Florida | ||
| 19 | Anna Stoehr | F | W | October 15, 1900 | Iowa | Minnesota | |
| Mary Will | F | W | October 15, 1900 | North Carolina | North Carolina | ||
| Goldie Steinberg | F | W | October 30, 1900 | Moldova Moldova Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part... |
New York | ||
| Min Quarenberg | F | W | December 10, 1900 | Iowa | South Dakota | ||
| Helen Netherton | F | W | December 19, 1900 | Missouri | Missouri | ||
| Ora Holland | F | W | December 24, 1900 | Missouri | Oklahoma | ||
| Opal Thompson | F | W | January 13, 1901 | Oklahoma | Alabama | ||
| Marietta Capizzi | F | W | January 29, 1901 | Italy | New York | ||
| 20 | Mable Ragan | F | W | February 1, 1901 | Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River.... |
Nebraska | |
| Mary Tankursley | F | W | February 21, 1901 | Texas | Texas | ||
| Leola Washington | F | B | March 2, 1901 | Arkansas | Missouri | ||
| Melva Radcliffe Melva Radcliffe Melva Radcliffe , born March 3, 1901, is an American supercentenarian. At , she is currently the oldest living resident of New Jersey. The record for New Jersey's oldest person is held by 112-year-old Alphaeus Philemon Cole.-Biography:... |
F | W | March 3, 1901 | New Jersey New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware... |
New Jersey | ||
| Clara Sutton | F | W | March 14, 1901 | North Carolina | North Carolina | ||
| 21 | Shelby Harris Shelby Harris Shelby Harris is an American supercentenarian. At , he is currently the oldest living resident of Illinois and the oldest man in the United States. The record for Illinois' oldest person is held by 114 year old Wilhelmina Kott. On 24 October 2011, aged 110 years 207 days he became one of 100... |
M | B | March 31, 1901 | Indiana | Illinois Illinois Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,... |
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| Edna Bowaan | F | W | June 3, 1901 | ? | North Carolina | ||
| 22 | Elizabeth Gauthier | F | W | June 5, 1901 | Massachusetts | Massachusetts | |
| Rosetta Morris | F | B | June 13, 1901 | Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic... |
Connecticut | ||
| Francile Reeves | F | B | July 1, 1901 | Oklahoma | Missouri | ||
| Hallie Mae Barnes | F | B | July 10, 1901 | Kentucky | Kentucky | ||
| Ruby Clawson | F | W | July 15, 1901 | Arkansas | California | ||
| Alta Nelson | F | W | July 24, 1901 | Utah Utah Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the... |
California | ||
| Catherine Dion | F | W | July 26, 1901 | Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
New Hampshire New Hampshire New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian... |
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| Elsie Rich | F | W | August 6, 1901 | Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... |
California | ||
| Viola Knack | F | W | August 18, 1901 | ? | Wisconsin | ||
| Beulah Christie | F | W | August 25, 1901 | Michigan | Florida | ||
| Andy Rasch | M | W | October 5, 1901 | Arizona | Arizona | ||
| Trudie Martin | F | W | October 19, 1901 | North Carolina | North Carolina | ||
| Emma Otis | F | W | October 22, 1901 | Washington | Washington | ||
| Inamae Robey | F | B | November 5, 1901 | Virginia | Virginia |
a Zohos was born in the Kingdom of Greece
Kingdom of Greece
The Kingdom of Greece was a state established in 1832 in the Convention of London by the Great Powers...
. It is now Greece.
b Steinberg was born in Kishinev, which was then part of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
. It is now in Moldova.
c Rich was born in Vienna, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. It is now in Austria.
American emigrant supercentenarians
| Rank | Name | Sex | Race | Birth date | Reported age as of | State of birth | Country of residence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cora Hansen | F | W | March 25, 1899 | Minnesota | Canada |
American supercentenarians age 112+
There have been 192 verified supercentenarians from the United States that have reached the age of 112 or more. Those entries listed as "verified" have been validated by GRGGerontology Research Group
The Gerontology Research Group was started in 1990, and is a global eGroup of researchers in gerontology, some of who also meet monthly at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. The primary function of the group is to further gerontology research, with the objective of reversing or retarding aging...
. Those indicated as 'pending' are backed by at least one document reviewed by GRG supporting the reported age, but not, the three necessary for validation by that institution. Those shown as 'disputed' are not backed by documentation supporting the reported age to the standards of GRG. **In the case of Moses Hardy
Moses Hardy
Moses Hardy was, at age 112 or 113, the last black veteran of World War I and one of the last surviving American veterans of that war. The son of former slaves, Hardy was born in either 1893 or 1894 and lived a religious and farming life until he signed up to serve overseas in World War I in July...
, he has been validated by GRG to at least the age of 112 years, 335 days. As of , of the 34, verified living supercentenarians who have reached the age of 112+ in the world, 13 are residing in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
| Rank | Name | Sex | Race | Reported birth date | Reported death date | Reported age | Place of birth | Place of death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah Knauss Sarah Knauss Sarah DeRemer Knauss was an American supercentenarian considered the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998, the date of the death of 117-year-old Canadian Marie-Louise Meilleur, until her own death... |
F | W | September 24, 1880 | December 30, 1999 | 119 years, 97 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| 2 | Lucy Hannah Lucy Hannah Lucy Hannah née Terrell was an American supercentenarian. Hannah is the third-oldest person ever and the oldest black person ever, as well as the oldest living American at the time of her death... |
F | B | July 16, 1875 | March 21, 1993 | 117 years, 248 days | Alabama | Michigan |
| 3 | Elizabeth Bolden Elizabeth Bolden Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was an American supercentenarian woman who, at the time of her death at age 116 years and 118 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the then world's oldest living person. She was the last remaining documented person born in 1890. Bolden was the seventh... |
F | B | August 15, 1890 | December 11, 2006 | 116 years, 118 days | Tennessee | Tennessee |
| 4 | Carrie C. White | F | W | November 18, 1874 | February 14, 1991 | 116 years, 88 days | Florida | Florida |
| 5 | Maggie Barnes | F | B | March 6, 1882 | January 19, 1998 | 115 years, 319 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
| 6 | Christian Mortensen Christian Mortensen Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand Mortensen , known as an adult as Christian Mortensen, was a Danish supercentenarian. At the time of his death he was 115 years and 252 days old—the longest fully authenticated lifespan of any male in history... |
M | W | August 16, 1882 | April 25, 1998 | 115 years, 252 days | Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... |
California |
| 7 | Edna Parker Edna Parker Edna Ruth Parker was an American supercentenarian and, until her death, was recognized as the oldest person in the world following the death of Yone Minagawa of Japan on August 13, 2007. She assumed the title at age 114 years 115 days... |
F | W | April 20, 1893 | November 26, 2008 | 115 years, 220 days | Indiana | Indiana |
| 8 | Margaret Skeete Margaret Skeete Margaret Skeete née Seward was an American supercentenarian and the oldest living American from 1993 to 1994. Skeete is the oldest person ever from Texas. She was 115 years 192 days old at the time of her death, and is the 15th oldest person ever as of October 2008... |
F | W | October 27, 1878 | May 7, 1994 | 115 years, 192 days | Texas | Virginia |
| 9 | Gertrude Baines Gertrude Baines Gertrude Baines was an American supercentenarian, who became the oldest recognized living person according to Guinness World Records on January 2, 2009, until her own death on September 11, 2009, at age 115 years 158 days... |
F | B | April 6, 1894 | September 11, 2009 | 115 years, 158 days | Georgia | California |
| 10 | Bettie Wilson | F | B | September 13, 1890 | February 13, 2006 | 115 years, 153 days | Mississippi | Mississippi |
| 11 | Susie Gibson Susie Gibson Susie Elizabeth Gibson née Potts was an American supercentenarian and the third-oldest person in the world at the time of her death. She currently ranks as one of the 25 oldest validated persons of all time. Moreover, Susie was older than several 'world's oldest persons'... |
F | W | October 31, 1890 | February 16, 2006 | 115 years, 108 days | Mississippi | Alabama |
| 12 | Besse Cooper Besse Cooper Besse Berry Cooper is an American supercentenarian. After the death of the Brazilian supercentenarian Maria Gomes Valentim on June 21, 2011, Cooper became the world's oldest living person... |
F | W | August 26, 1896 | Living | Tennessee | Living in Georgia | |
| 13 | Maude Farris-Luse Maude Farris-Luse Maude Farris-Luse, , also known as Maud Luse, was an American supercentenarian. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, she was the oldest person in the world from June 2001 until her death nine months later, at age 115 years, 56 days.-Birth, marriage and family:Maude Farris-Luse was born... |
F | W | January 21, 1887 | March 18, 2002 | 115 years, 56 days | Michigan | Michigan |
| 14 | Mary Bidwell | F | W | May 19, 1881 | April 25, 1996 | 114 years, 342 days | Connecticut | Connecticut |
| 15 | Mary Josephine Ray Mary Josephine Ray Mary Josephine Ray was the world's second-oldest verified living person at the time of her death... |
F | W | May 17, 1895 | March 7, 2010 | 114 years, 294 days | Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
New Hampshire |
| 16 | Neva Morris Neva Morris Neva Morris was an American supercentenarian. At the age of 114 years, 246 days, she was the oldest verified living person in the United States following the death of 114-year-old Mary Josephine Ray and the last known American born surviving from 1895... |
F | W | August 3, 1895 | April 6, 2010 | 114 years, 246 days | Iowa | Iowa |
| 17 | Dina Manfredini | F | W | April 4, 1897 | Living | Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... |
Living in Iowa | |
| 18 | Mathew Beard | M | B | July 9, 1870 | February 16, 1985 | 114 years, 222 days | Virginia | Florida |
| 19 | Carrie Lazenby | F | B | February 9, 1882 | September 14, 1996 | 114 years, 218 days | Georgia | Illinois |
| 20 | Myrtle Dorsey | F | W | November 22, 1885 | June 25, 2000 | 114 years, 216 days | Ohio | Ohio |
| 21 | Walter Breuning Walter Breuning Walter Breuning 1896 2011) was an American supercentenarian. He was the last known surviving man who was born in 1896. Breuning is the oldest undisputed American-born man on record. He was the last verified American man born in the 19th Century. At the time of his death, Breuning was the third... |
M | W | September 21, 1896 | April 14, 2011 | 114 years, 205 days | Minnesota | Montana Montana Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,... |
| 22 | Eunice Sanborn | F | W | July 20, 1896 | January 31, 2011 | 114 years, 195 days | Louisiana | Texas |
| 23 | Grace Clawson | F | W | November 15, 1887 | May 28, 2002 | 114 years, 194 days | United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
New York |
| 24 | Adelina Domingues | F | W | February 19, 1888 | August 21, 2002 | 114 years, 183 days | Cape Verde Cape Verde The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa... |
California |
| Wilhelmina Kott | F | W | March 7, 1880 | September 6, 1994 | 114 years, 183 days | Illinois | Illinois | |
| 26 | Charlotte Benkner Charlotte Benkner Charlotte Benkner née Enterlein was an American supercentenarian and the oldest verified living person from November 2003 until sufficient documentation was found to validate the age of Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan of Puerto Rico in March 2004... |
F | W | November 26, 1889 | May 14, 2004 | 114 years, 180 days | Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
Ohio |
| Martha Graham | F | B | December 17, 1844 | June 25, 1959 | 114 years, ca Circa Circa , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date... . 180 days |
Virginia | Virginia | |
| 28 | Ettie Mae Greene Ettie Mae Greene Ettie Mae Greene née Thomas was an American supercentenarian who was recognized by Guinness World Records as the 'oldest living American' in 1991 . She was born in Wayside, West Virginia, and worked as a seamstress and a farmer... |
F | W | September 8, 1877 | February 26, 1992 | 114 years, 171 days | West Virginia | West Virginia |
| 29 | Irene Frank | F | W | October 1, 1881 | February 28, 1996 | 114 years, 150 days | Texas | Missouri |
| 30 | Olivia Patricia Thomas | F | W | June 29, 1895 | November 16, 2009 | 114 years, 140 days | Iowa | New York |
| 31 | Emma Verona Johnston Emma Verona Johnston Emma Verona Johnston née Calhoun was an American supercentenarian recognized as the "oldest living American" from May 2004 until her death at age 114 years 117 days. Verona was born in Indianola, Iowa as one of a large family... |
F | W | August 6, 1890 | December 1, 2004 | 114 years, 117 days | Iowa | Ohio |
| 32 | Bettie Chatmon | F | B | April 30, 1884 | August 16, 1998 | 114 years, 108 days | Louisiana | Texas |
| 33 | Odie Matthews | F | W | December 28, 1878 | April 14, 1993 | 114 years, 107 days | Texas | Arizona |
| 34 | Florence Knapp | F | W | October 10, 1873 | January 11, 1988 | 114 years, 93 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| Elena Slough | F | W | July 4, 1889 | October 5, 2003 | 114 years, 93 days | Pennsylvania | New Jersey | |
| 36 | Mary Anna Boone | F | W | February 10, 1887 | May 13, 2001 | 114 years, 92 days | Kentucky | Kentucky |
| 37 | Maggie Renfro Maggie Renfro Maggie Mae Renfro was an American supercentenarian who was, at 114, the third-oldest living person in the United States and the oldest person in Louisiana until her death on January 22, 2010... |
F | B | November 14, 1895 | January 22, 2010 | 114 years, 69 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
| 38 | Emma Tillman Emma Tillman Emmaline "Emma" Fanchon Tillman, was an American supercentenarian and, at age 114 years 67 days, the oldest validated living person from January 24, 2007 until her own death four days later. She was the last remaining documented person born in 1892.... |
F | B | November 22, 1892 | January 28, 2007 | 114 years, 67 days | North Carolina | Connecticut |
| 39 | Delma Kollar | F | W | October 31, 1897 | Living | Kansas | Living in Oregon | |
| 40 | Grace Thaxton | F | W | June 18, 1891 | July 6, 2005 | 114 years, 18 days | New York | Kentucky |
| 41 | Minnie Ward | F | B | November 19, 1885 | December 2, 1999 | 114 years, 13 days | Tennessee | Massachusetts |
| 42 | Arbella Ewing Arbella Ewing Arbella Ewing née Perkins was an American supercentenarian. At the time of her death, at age 114, she was the third-oldest living person in the world, the second-oldest person in the United States and the oldest living African American... |
F | B | March 13, 1894 | March 22, 2008 | 114 years, 9 days | Texas | Texas |
| 43 | Catherine Hagel Catherine Hagel Catherine Helen Hagel née Dahlheimer was an American supercentenarian.She was born in Dayton, Minnesota, and was, at the time of her death, the third-oldest validated person in the world... |
F | W | November 28, 1894 | December 6, 2008 | 114 years, 8 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
| 44 | Fred Hale | M | W | December 1, 1890 | November 19, 2004 | 113 years, 354 days | Maine Maine Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost... |
New York |
| 45 | Miriam Carpelan | F | W | July 8, 1882 | June 22, 1996 | 113 years, 350 days | United Kingdom | California |
| 46 | Bertha Fry Bertha Fry Bertha Fry née Vanosdol was an American supercentenarian. She was age 113 years 348 days old at the time of her death. She lived in Muncie, Indiana.... |
F | W | December 1, 1893 | November 14, 2007 | 113 years, 348 days | Indiana | Indiana |
| 47 | Mae Harrington | F | W | January 20, 1889 | December 29, 2002 | 113 years, 343 days | New York | New York |
| 48 | Daisey Bailey Daisey Bailey Daisey Bailey was an African American supercentenarian, who at the age of 113 years and 342 days, was the fifth oldest person in the world and the third oldest living person in the United States... |
F | B | March 30, 1896 | March 7, 2010 | 113 years, 342 days | Tennessee | Michigan |
| 49 | Agatha Mitchell | F | B | March 26, 1887 | February 25, 2001 | 113 years, 336 days | Virginia | Virginia |
| 50 | Moses Hardy Moses Hardy Moses Hardy was, at age 112 or 113, the last black veteran of World War I and one of the last surviving American veterans of that war. The son of former slaves, Hardy was born in either 1893 or 1894 and lived a religious and farming life until he signed up to serve overseas in World War I in July... |
M | B | January 6, 1893 | December 7, 2006 | 113 years, 335 days | Mississippi | Mississippi |
| 51 | Clara Huhn | F | W | January 28, 1887 | December 20, 2000 | 113 years, 327 days | Nebraska | California |
| 52 | Corinne Dixon Taylor Corinne Dixon Taylor Corinne Taylor née Dixon was an American supercentenarian posthumously recognized as the oldest living American and second oldest person in the world upon the death of Emma Tillman on January 28, 2007 until her own death 17 days later. She is also the age record-holder for the District of Columbia... |
F | B | April 2, 1893 | February 14, 2007 | 113 years, 318 days | District of Columbia | District of Columbia |
| 53 | Mary Christian Mary Christian Mary Dorothy Christian née Perry was an American supercentenarian who became the 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... |
F | W | June 12, 1889 | April 20, 2003 | 113 years, 312 days | Massachusetts | California |
| 54 | Leila Denmark Leila Denmark Leila Alice Denmark is an American pediatrician. She was once the oldest practicing pediatrician in the world, until she retired in May 2001 at the age of 103. She is one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity... |
F | W | February 1, 1898 | Living | Georgia | Living in Georgia | |
| 55 | Mississippi Winn Mississippi Winn Mississippi Winn was an American supercentenarian. At the age of , she was the 7th oldest person in the world at the time of her death. She became the oldest resident in Louisiana upon the death of Maggie Renfro on January 22, 2010. After Daisey Bailey's death on March 7, 2010, Winn became the... |
F | B | March 31, 1897 | January 14, 2011 | 113 years, 289 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
| Ida Williams | F | B | June 10, 1891 | March 25, 2005 | 113 years, 288 days | Louisiana | Louisiana | |
| 56 | Fannie Thomas | F | W | April 14, 1867 | January 22, 1981 | 113 years, 283 days | Illinois | California |
| 57 | Johnson Parks | M | B | October 15, 1884 | July 17, 1998 | 113 years, 275 days | Georgia | Florida |
| 58 | Mary Parr Mary Parr Mary Parr was an American supercentenarian. She was believed to be the oldest person in the United States and second oldest in the world when she died.... |
F | W | January 29, 1889 | October 29, 2002 | 113 years, 273 days | Indiana | Florida |
| 59 | Beatrice Farve Beatrice Farve Beatrice Farve was an American supercentenarian who was, at age 113, the world's second-oldest verified person. She was also the second-oldest person in the United States, and the second-oldest African American, all behind California resident Gertrude Baines... |
F | B | April 30, 1895 | January 19, 2009 | 113 years, 264 days | Georgia | Georgia |
| 60 | Amalia Barone | F | W | October 6, 1884 | June 26, 1998 | 113 years, 263 days | Italy | Connecticut |
| 61 | Zora Wriggle | F | W | February 24, 1880 | November 7, 1993 | 113 years, 256 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| Rosa Allen | F | B | May 17, 1887 | January 26, 2001 | 113 years, 254 days | Georgia | Georgia | |
| 62 | John Ingram McMorran John Ingram McMorran John Ingram McMorran was an American supercentenarian and is one of the recognized oldest people in the world, living to the age of 113 years and 250 days. He was born in Goodland Township, Michigan, the oldest child of George McMorran and Lydia Ingram... |
M | W | June 19, 1889 | February 24, 2003 | 113 years, 250 days | Michigan | Florida |
| 63 | Mary McKinney | F | W | May 30, 1873 | February 2, 1987 | 113 years, 248 days | California | California |
| 64 | Ella Schuler Ella Schuler Ella Frieda Schuler was an American supercentenarian who at the age of 113 years, 244 days was the oldest living person in the state of Kansas. Schuler at the time of her death was the 7th oldest living verified person.-Family:Schuler married John Cecil Schuler on August 19, 1923... |
F | W | September 5, 1897 | May 7, 2011 | 113 years, 244 days | Nebraska | Kansas |
| 65 | Gladys Swetland Gladys Swetland Marguerite Gladys Swetland was an American supercentenarian and the oldest living person in the northern part of the United States when she died. Born to Chester Allen and Kate Doud Swetland in Mills, Pennsylvania, Gladys began her career as a teacher in 1910, and only retired at age 78... |
F | W | April 18, 1892 | December 14, 2005 | 113 years, 240 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| 66 | Mary Randall | F | B | April 1, 1887 | November 12, 2000 | 113 years, 225 days | Arkansas | Texas |
| 67 | Delina Filkins Delina Filkins Delina Filkins, née Ecker was an American supercentenarian who was the earliest verified person to reach the ages of 112 and 113, in 1927 and 1928, respectively. Filkins was the first verified person to surpass the longest confirmed lifespan by two years... |
F | W | May 4, 1815 | December 4, 1928 | 113 years, 214 days | New York | New York |
| 68 | Mary Kelly | F | W | June 7, 1851 | December 30, 1964 | 113 years, 206 days | Michigan | California |
| 69 | Nelle Hunt | F | W | July 28, 1887 | February 8, 2001 | 113 years, 195 days | Missouri | Missouri |
| Helen Stetter Helen Stetter Helen Caroline Stetter was the oldest living Nebraskan and, at the time of her death at age 113, the fourth oldest verified person in the world. Born in Chadron, Nebraska, the only Nebraskan older than she was, was Clara Huhn, born in 1887, who died in 2000 at the age of 113 years and 327 days... |
F | W | November 18, 1893 | June 1, 2007 | 113 years, 195 days | Nebraska | Nebraska | |
| 71 | Carrie Hardrick | F | B | November 6, 1887 | May 14, 2001 | 113 years, 189 days | Texas | Texas |
| John Joe Begay | M | A/I | March 15, 1888 | September 20, 2001 | 113 years, 189 days | Utah Utah Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the... |
Utah | |
| 72 | Mamie Eva Keith Mamie Eva Keith Mamie Eva Walter Keith was an American supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world from February 21, 1986 until her death seven months later in the Winchester House nursing home, Libertyville, Illinois... |
F | W | March 22, 1873 | September 20, 1986 | 113 years, 182 days | Illinois | Illinois |
| 73 | Emma Wilson | F | W | May 12, 1870 | October 13, 1983 | 113 years, 154 days | Missouri | Missouri |
| 74 | Jane Markle | F | W | October 10, 1883 | March 12, 1997 | 113 years, 153 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| Frances Street | F | B | March 28, 1897 | August 24, 2010 | 113 years, 149 days | South Carolina | North Carolina | |
| 75 | Frederick Frazier | M | W | January 27, 1880 | June 14, 1993 | 113 years, 138 days | Alabama | Alabama |
| 76 | Gertrude Croker | F | W | July 12, 1881 | November 26, 1994 | 113 years, 137 days | Iowa | Vermont |
| 77 | Cleo Craig | F | W | February 12, 1890 | June 28, 2003 | 113 years, 136 days | Illinois | Illinois |
| 78 | Frances Johns | F | B | February 3, 1886 | May 24, 1999 | 113 years, 110 days | Arkansas | California |
| 79 | Aurelia Marotta | F | W | June 27, 1890 | October 4, 2003 | 113 years, 99 days | Massachusetts | Massachusetts |
| 80 | Mamie Rearden | F | B | September 7, 1898 | Living | South Carolina | Living in South Carolina | |
| 81 | Adelheid Kirschbaum | F | W | September 29, 1883 | December 21, 1996 | 113 years, 83 days | Germany | New York |
| 82 | Nellie Spencer | F | W | August 24, 1869 | November 13, 1982 | 113 years, 81 days | New Hampshire | New Jersey |
| 83 | Mary Crombie | F | W | July 6, 1890 | September 22, 2003 | 113 years, 78 days | Illinois | Illinois |
| 84 | Delvina Dahlheimer | F | W | December 31, 1888 | March 13, 2002 | 113 years, 72 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
| 85 | Leila Backman Shull Leila Backman Shull Bertha Leila Shull was an American supercentenarian, who, at her death aged 113, was the fourth-oldest person in the United States and the seventh-oldest in the world for little over a month since the November 14, 2007 death of fellow 113-year-old compatriot Bertha Fry.Shull was born and lived in... |
F | W | October 16, 1894 | December 22, 2007 | 113 years, 67 days | South Carolina | South Carolina |
| 86 | Betsy Baker | F | W | August 20, 1842 | October 24, 1955 | 113 years, 65 days | United Kingdom | Nebraska |
| 87 | Cora Humphrey | F | B | September 4, 1879 | November 1, 1992 | 113 years, 58 days | Illinois | New York |
| 88 | Hazel Luther | F | W | December 11, 1889 | January 31, 2003 | 113 years, 51 days | Massachusetts | Florida |
| 89 | Ollie Bay | F | W | November 11, 1872 | 31? December 1985 | 113 years, ca Circa Circa , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date... . 50 days |
Illinois | Illinois |
| 90 | Walter Richardson Walter Richardson Walter C. Richardson 1885 1998) was an American supercentenarian. He was the last known surviving man who was born in 1885. He became the world's oldest verified man on 17 July 1998, upon the death of 113-year-old Johnson Parks at the age of 112 years, 252 days, until his own death on Christmas... |
M | W | November 7, 1885 | December 25, 1998 | 113 years, 48 days | Illinois | Illinois |
| 91 | Hagar Young | F | B | October 11, 1898 | November 25, 2011 | 113 years, 45 days | Alabama | Alabama |
| 92 | Flossie Eckard | F | W | July 25, 1888 | August 25, 2001 | 113 years, 31 days | Iowa | California |
| 93 | Ito Konno Kinase | F | O | December 31, 1889 | January 24, 2003 | 113 years, 24 days | Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... |
Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of... |
| 94 | Daisy Sanders | F | B | November 28, 1881 | December 10, 1994 | 113 years, 12 days | Mississippi | Florida |
| 95 | Birdie May Vogt | F | W | August 3, 1876 | July 23, 1989 | 112 years, 354 days | Ohio | Florida |
| 96 | Olive Alleshouse | F | W | June 7, 1882 | May 13, 1995 | 112 years, 340 days | Texas | Illinois |
| Elsie Johnson Maney | F | W | March 28, 1894 | March 3, 2007 | 112 years, 340 days | North Carolina | North Carolina | |
| 98 | Ruby Drakeford | F | W | January 25, 1892 | December 29, 2004 | 112 years, 339 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
| 99 | Maggie Murdock | F | B | August 19, 1887 | July 22, 2000 | 112 years, 338 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
| 100 | Ella Gantt | F | W | November 30, 1888 | October 28, 2001 | 112 years, 332 days | Georgia | Georgia |
| Elizabeth Stefan | F | W | May 13, 1895 | April 9, 2008 | 112 years, 332 days | Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
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| 102 | Grace Jones | F | W | June 4, 1893 | April 24, 2006 | 112 years, 324 days | Virginia | Virginia |
| Ruby Kimball | F | W | March 23, 1892 | February 9, 2005 | 112 years, 323 days | Georgia | New York | |
| 103 | C. Letitia Lawson | F | W | April 10, 1896 | February 22, 2009 | 112 years, 318 days | Iowa | Iowa |
| Florence Barnes | F | B | May 11, 1894 | March 5, 2007 | 112 years, 298 days | Tennessee | Tennessee | |
| 104 | Lillie Snyder | F | W | May 9, 1888 | February 27, 2001 | 112 years, 294 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
| 105 | Irma Schmidt | F | W | October 7, 1898 | July 25, 2011 | 112 years, 291 days | Indiana | Connecticut |
| 106 | Sadie B. Meyer | F | W | November 7, 1879 | August 7, 1992 | 112 years, 274 days | New Hampshire | New Hampshire |
| 107 | Yettie Wilson | F | B | August 28, 1892 | May 27, 2005 | 112 years, 272 days | South Carolina | New York |
| 108 | Florence Homan | F | W | November 18, 1893 | August 13, 2006 | 112 years, 268 days | Ohio | Ohio |
| Maggie James | F | B | March 10, 1899 | Living | Virginia | Virginia | ||
| 109 | Berna Dupertuis | F | W | September 21, 1888 | June 6, 2001 | 112 years, 258 days | South Dakota | California |
| 110 | Flossie Page | F | W | June 12, 1893 | February 22, 2006 | 112 years, 255 days | Kansas | Kansas |
| 111 | Marion Higgins | F | W | June 26, 1893 | March 2, 2006 | 112 years, 249 days | New York | California |
| 112 | Katherine Jones | F | B | August 30, 1879 | April 27, 1992 | 112 years, 241 days | Kansas | California |
| 113 | Elsie Thompson | F | W | April 5, 1899 | Living | Pennsylvania | Living in Florida | |
| 114 | Jennie Houck | F | W | August 30, 1888 | April 24, 2001 | 112 years, 237 days | Texas | Oklahoma |
| 115 | Bertha Flathers | F | W | March 30, 1885 | November 21, 1997 | 112 years, 236 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
| 116 | Luisa Sanchez | F | H/B/I | February 14, 1884 | October 5, 1996 | 112 years, 234 days | New York | New York |
| Louisiana Hines | F | B | April 13, 1899 | Living | Alabama | Michigan | ||
| 117 | Orpha Nusbaum | F | W | August 13, 1875 | March 30, 1998 | 112 years, 230 days | Indiana | Indiana |
| 118 | Mary Margaret Smith | F | W | October 7, 1893 | May 23, 2006 | 112 years, 228 days | Pennsylvania | Ohio |
| 119 | Lydia Newton | F | W | March 23, 1893 | October 30, 2005 | 112 years, 221 days | Illinois | Arizona |
| 120 | Anne Christopher Anne Christopher Anne Langston Christopher was an American supercentenarian who was, at age 112, the oldest validated person living in the state of Georgia, the seventh-oldest in the United States, as well as the 11th-oldest in the world with the September 20, 2007 death of Australia's oldest person, Myra Nicholson... |
F | W | March 4, 1895 | October 10, 2007 | 112 years, 220 days | South Carolina | Georgia |
| 121 | Anna Balsiger | F | W | February 11, 1889 | September 14, 2001 | 112 years, 215 days | Wisconsin | Wisconsin |
| 122 | Edna Taylor | F | B | July 12, 1890 | February 10, 2003 | 112 years, 213 days | New York | New York |
| 123 | Margaret Russell | F | W | October 31, 1892 | May 29, 2005 | 112 years, 210 days | Oklahoma | California |
| Inez Parker Jeffus | F | W | March 20, 1894 | October 16, 2006 | 112 years, 210 days | Texas | Texas | |
| 125 | Florence Poe | F | W | August 24, 1897 | March 21, 2010 | 112 years, 209 days | Missouri | Missouri |
| 126 | Victoria Evinger | F | W | February 1, 1883 | August 26, 1995 | 112 years, 206 days | Indiana | Indiana |
| 127 | Mary Stout | F | W | June 4, 1883 | December 25, 1995 | 112 years, 204 days | Kansas | Illinois |
| Susana Lynn | F | B | December 9, 1888 | July 1, 2001 | 112 years, 204 days | Texas | Kansas | |
| George Francis | M | B | June 6, 1896 | December 27, 2008 | 112 years, 204 days | Louisiana | California | |
| 130 | Elizabeth Fisher | F | W | January 15, 1884 | August 3, 1996 | 112 years, 201 days | Minnesota | Washington |
| Louisa Delfino | F | W | December 10, 1886 | June 29, 1999 | 112 years, 201 days | Italy | Ohio | |
| 132 | Mary Arp | F | W | July 4, 1885 | January 18, 1998 | 112 years, 198 days | Iowa | South Dakota |
| 133 | Sammie Howe | F | W | March 7, 1887 | September 12, 1999 | 112 years, 189 days | Alabama | Florida |
| 134 | Ruth Bruce | F | B | October 8, 1898 | April 8, 2011 | 112 years, 182 days | South Carolina | North Carolina |
| 135 | Delcia Sockwell | F | B | March 7, 1888 | September 4, 2000 | 112 years, 181 days | Arkansas | Arkansas |
| 136 | Beryl Kapaun | F | W | June 4, 1899 | Living | South Dakota | Living in South Dakota | |
| Ruth Stamps | F | B | May 22, 1896 | November 8, 2008 | 112 years, 170 days | North Carolina | Ohio | |
| Louise Stern | F | W | April 18, 1894 | October 4, 2006 | 112 years, 169 days | New York | New York | |
| Melinda Harris | F | B | May 4, 1898 | October 20, 2010 | 112 years, 169 days | North Carolina | North Carolina | |
| 137 | Martha Williams | F | B | September 12, 1889 | February 24, 2002 | 112 years, 165 days | Arkansas | Arkansas |
| 138 | John Painter John Painter John George Painter was posthumously recognized as the world's oldest man and oldest American veteran, as a result of the United States's SSA supercentenarian study. Painter was also the last surviving American veteran of the First World War to be born in the 1880s. Only recently he was also... |
M | W | September 20, 1888 | March 1, 2001 | 112 years, 162 days | Tennessee | Tennessee |
| Susie Waller | F | W | May 26, 1890 | November 4, 2002 | 112 years, 162 days | Iowa | California | |
| 140 | Nellie Cross | F | W | October 28, 1889 | April 3, 2002 | 112 years, 157 days | Iowa | Iowa |
| 141 | Nellie Richards | F | W | August 14, 1885 | January 13, 1998 | 112 years, 152 days | New York | New Hampshire |
| Martele Murphy | F | W | January 5, 1886 | June 6, 1998 | 112 years, 152 days | Maine | Massachusetts | |
| Jessie Champion | M | B | August 15, 1887 | January 12, 2000 | 112 years, 150 days | Georgia | Georgia | |
| 143 | Maude Ross | F | W | January 13, 1880 | June 9, 1992 | 112 years, 148 days | Ohio | Missouri |
| Susannah Jones | F | B | July 6, 1899 | Living | Alabama | Living in New York | ||
| 145 | Elzona Moxey | F | W | November 30, 1875 | April 25, 1988 | 112 years, 147 days | Kentucky | Oklahoma |
| 146 | Berta Rosenberg | F | W | September 5, 1896 | January 28, 2009 | 112 years, 145 days | Germany | New York |
| 147 | Elma Corning | F | W | February 22, 1892 | July 12, 2004 | 112 years, 141 days | Iowa | California |
| 148 | Mary Bittlebrun | F | W | March 19, 1864 | August 6, 1976 | 112 years, 140 days | Illinois | Arkansas |
| 149 | Alphaeus Philemon Cole Alphaeus Philemon Cole Alphaeus Philemon Cole was an American artist, engraver and etcher. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and died in New York City. He was the son of noted engraver Timothy Cole... |
M | W | July 12, 1876 | November 25, 1988 | 112 years, 136 days | New Jersey | New York |
| 150 | Fannie Adler Greenberg | F | W | May 24, 1895 | October 5, 2007 | 112 years, 134 days | Canada | New York |
| 151 | Ruth Anderson | F | W | July 24, 1899 | Living | Minnesota | Living in Minnesota | |
| Bernice Madigan | F | W | July 24, 1899 | Living | Massachusetts | Living in Massachusetts | ||
| 153 | Emma Yager | F | W | November 12, 1889 | March 16, 2002 | 112 years, 124 days | New York | New York |
| 154 | Mary Penamon | F | B | October 18, 1881 | February 18, 1994 | 112 years, 123 days | Mississippi | Tennessee |
| 155 | George Johnson George Johnson (supercentenarian) George Henry Johnson was, at the time of his death, California's oldest man and one of the last few surviving veterans of the First World War in the United States.-Life:... |
M | B/W | May 1, 1894 | August 30, 2006 | 112 years, 121 days | Pennsylvania | California |
| 156 | Onie Ponder Onie Ponder Onezima Cecelia "Onie" Ponder was an American supercentenarian. At the age of 112 years, 119 days, she was the 21st oldest person in the world at her death on December 31, 2010 and the oldest living person in the U.S state of Florida.- Family :Onezima Cecelia "Onie" Ponder was born in Ocala,... |
F | W | September 3, 1898 | December 31, 2010 | 112 years, 119 days | Florida | Florida |
| 157 | Jessie Mae Kettering | F | W | January 17, 1888 | May 11, 2000 | 112 years, 115 days | Iowa | Iowa |
| 158 | Soledad Mexia Soledad Mexia Soledad Mexia is a supercentenarian now living in San Diego. She is the oldest verified living person born in Mexico and the oldest person in California.... |
F | H | August 13, 1899 | Living | Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of... |
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| 159 | Evelyn Kozak Evelyn Kozak Evelyn Kozak is an American supercentenarian, born in the Lower East Side of New York City. Her parents, Katie and Isaac Jacobson, had nine children. She grew up working for her family's business, as her father owned a paper box company.She moved to Miami after she got married... |
F | W | August 14, 1899 | Living | New York | Living in Pennsylvania | |
| 160 | Ada Killian | F | ? | August 1, 1873 | November 17, 1985 | 112 years, 108 days | Indiana | Missouri |
| 161 | Velma Curvey | F | W | September 15, 1898 | December 24, 2010 | 112 years, 100 days | Illinois | Illinois |
| 162 | Anna Brown | F | B | September 29, 1884 | January 5, 1997 | 112 years, 98 days | Alabama | Florida |
| 163 | Rosaria Caleca | F | W | February 5, 1895 | May 6, 2007 | 112 years, 90 days | Italy | New York |
| Beatrice Cooper | F | W | February 3, 1897 | May 4, 2009 | 112 years, 90 days | Michigan | Michigan | |
| 165 | Brigida Dearroyo | F | H | October 7, 1888 | December 31, 2000 | 112 years, 85 days | Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an... |
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| Meta Ilten | F | W | September 7, 1899 | Living | Iowa | Living in Iowa | ||
| 167 | Amy Harris | F | W | November 6, 1881 | January 26, 1994 | 112 years, 81 days | Arkansas | California |
| Grace Styck | F | W | December 15, 1893 | March 6, 2006 | 112 years, 81 days | Illinois | Illinois | |
| 169 | Melvina Richardson | F | B | January 11, 1889 | March 31, 2001 | 112 years, 79 days | Indiana | Indiana |
| Roberta Brittain | F | B | May 31, 1896 | August 10, 2008 | 112 years, 71 days | Alabama | Illinois | |
| 170 | Agnes Ferron | F | W | November 13, 1893 | January 18, 2006 | 112 years, 66 days | Kansas | Nebraska |
| 171 | Nyleptha Roberts | F | W | March 12, 1898 | May 5, 2010 | 112 years, 54 days | Tennessee | Tennessee |
| 172 | Emma Carroll Emma Carroll Emma Vironia Carroll was, at age 112, Iowa's oldest person since the death of 111-year-old Hazel Blecha on October 29, 2006. She was the 10th oldest validated American living in the United States, and the 22nd oldest validated worldwide at the time of her death... |
F | W | May 18, 1895 | July 10, 2007 | 112 years, 53 days | Iowa | Iowa |
| 173 | Minerva Bedford | F | B | September 13, 1886 | November 4, 1998 | 112 years, 52 days | Kentucky | Kentucky |
| 174 | Kathryn Gemme | F | W | November 9, 1894 | December 29, 2006 | 112 years, 50 days | Massachusetts | Massachusetts |
| 175 | Mamie Lou McGoogan | F | W | January 12, 1892 | March 1, 2004 | 112 years, 49 days | Louisiana | Arkansas |
| Martha Wiley | F | W | August 28, 1894 | October 16, 2006 | 112 years, 49 days | Georgia | Texas | |
| 177 | J. Reeta Jones | F | W | October 17, 1898 | December 1, 2010 | 112 years, 45 days | Tennessee | North Carolina |
| 178 | Jessie Penn | F | W | May 18, 1889 | June 30, 2001 | 112 years, 43 days | Alabama | Alabama |
| Geneva McNicholl | F | W | December 10, 1889 | January 2, 2002 | 112 years, 43 days | Oregon | Oregon | |
| 180 | Bertha Blair | F | W | December 30, 1875 | February 9, 1988 | 112 years, 41 days | Iowa | California |
| 181 | Nettie Huber | F | W | January 22, 1880 | March 1, 1992 | 112 years, 39 days | Ohio | Ohio |
| 182 | Claire Dunning | F | W | August 20, 1878 | September 27, 1990 | 112 years, 38 days | New York | Florida |
| 183 | Mary Gentry | F | W | September 4, 1897 | October 6, 2009 | 112 years, 32 days | Alabama | Alabama |
| 184 | Ethel Robison | F | W | June 2, 1894 | July 3, 2006 | 112 years, 31 days | Missouri | Missouri |
| 185 | Emma Castilla Bowen | F | W | March 2, 1889 | March 29, 2001 | 112 years, 27 days | Illinois | Illinois |
| Marcella Humphrey | F | W | October 25, 1892 | November 21, 2004 | 112 years, 27 days | Wisconsin | Michigan | |
| 187 | Lydia Carvalho | F | W | January 21, 1892 | February 15, 2004 | 112 years, 25 days | Rhode Island Rhode Island The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area... |
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| 188 | Anna Lou Shively | F | W | May 14, 1880 | June 7, 1992 | 112 years, 24 days | Indiana | Pennsylvania |
| 189 | Mary Phil Cota | F | W | July 5, 1870 | July 22, 1982 | 112 years, 17 days | California | California |
| Emelie Weil | F | W | November 20, 1899 | Living | Kentucky | Indiana | ||
| 190 | Lake Dickson | F | W | January 19, 1897 | January 30, 2009 | 112 years, 11 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
| 191 | Emma Vanderkarr | F | W | November 29, 1869 | December 5, 1981 | 112 years, 6 days | New York | Virginia |
| 192 | James Wiggins | M | B | October 15, 1879 | October 16, 1991 | 112 years, 1 day | Arkansas | Arkansas |
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Oldest living American by state
This is a list of the oldest living people in America by state. Those entries color-coded as "verified" have been validated by GRG. Those color-coded as 'pending' are backed by at least one document reviewed by GRG supporting the reported age, but not the three necessary for validation by that institution. Those color-coded as 'unverified' are not (yet) backed by documentation supporting the reported age to the standards of GRG.| State | Name | Sex | Race | Reported birth date | Reported age |
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| Alabama | Opal Thompson | F | W | January 13, 1901 | |
| Alaska Alaska Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait... |
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| Arkansas | Ivory Ross-Lambert | F | B | September 16, 1899 | |
| California | Soledad Mexia Soledad Mexia Soledad Mexia is a supercentenarian now living in San Diego. She is the oldest verified living person born in Mexico and the oldest person in California.... |
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| Colorado Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains... |
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| Connecticut | Rosetta Morris | F | B | June 13, 1901 | |
| Delaware Delaware Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania... |
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| District of Columbia | Eddye Williams | F | B | January 4, 1900 | |
| Florida | Elsie Thompson | F | W | April 5, 1899 | |
| Georgia | Besse Cooper Besse Cooper Besse Berry Cooper is an American supercentenarian. After the death of the Brazilian supercentenarian Maria Gomes Valentim on June 21, 2011, Cooper became the world's oldest living person... |
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| Illinois | Shelby Harris Shelby Harris Shelby Harris is an American supercentenarian. At , he is currently the oldest living resident of Illinois and the oldest man in the United States. The record for Illinois' oldest person is held by 114 year old Wilhelmina Kott. On 24 October 2011, aged 110 years 207 days he became one of 100... |
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| Indiana | Emelie Weil | F | W | November 20, 1899 | |
| Iowa | Dina Manfredini | F | W | April 4, 1897 | |
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| Massachusetts | Bernice Madigan | F | W | July 24, 1899 | |
| Michigan | Louisiana Hines | F | B | April 13, 1899 | |
| Minnesota | Ruth Anderson | F | W | July 24, 1899 | |
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| Nebraska | Mable Ragan | F | W | February 1, 1901 | |
| Nevada Nevada Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its... |
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| New Hampshire | Catherine Dion | F | W | July 26, 1901 | |
| New Jersey | Melva Radcliffe Melva Radcliffe Melva Radcliffe , born March 3, 1901, is an American supercentenarian. At , she is currently the oldest living resident of New Jersey. The record for New Jersey's oldest person is held by 112-year-old Alphaeus Philemon Cole.-Biography:... |
F | W | March 3, 1901 | |
| New Mexico New Mexico New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S... |
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| New York | Susannah Jones | F | B | July 6, 1899 | |
| North Carolina | Mary Will | F | W | October 15, 1900 | |
| North Dakota North Dakota North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S.... |
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| Oregon | Delma Kollar | F | W | October 31, 1897 | |
| Pennsylvania | Evelyn Kozak Evelyn Kozak Evelyn Kozak is an American supercentenarian, born in the Lower East Side of New York City. Her parents, Katie and Isaac Jacobson, had nine children. She grew up working for her family's business, as her father owned a paper box company.She moved to Miami after she got married... |
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| South Carolina | Mamie Rearden | F | B | September 7, 1898 | |
| South Dakota | Beryl Kapaun | F | W | June 4, 1899 | |
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| Texas | Mary Tankursley | F | B | February 21, 1901 | |
| Utah | Edna Decker | F | W | December 29, 1902 | |
| Vermont Vermont Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England... |
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| Virginia | Maggie James | F | B | March 10, 1899 | |
| Washington | Emma Otis | F | W | October 22, 1901 | |
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| Wyoming Wyoming Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High... |
Oldest American by state
This is a list of the oldest people by birth from each U.S. state. The United States has the world's largest validated supercentenarian population. The records largely reflect population distribution and systems of recordkeeping 110 or more years ago, when several states didn't yet exist. States farther west thus have fewer verified recordholders.Those entries color-coded as "verified" have been validated by GRG. Those color-coded as 'pending' are backed by at least one document reviewed by GRG supporting the reported age, but not the three necessary for validation by that institution. Those color-coded as 'unverified' are not (yet) backed by documentation supporting the reported age to the standards of GRG.
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| Alabama | Lucy Hannah Lucy Hannah Lucy Hannah née Terrell was an American supercentenarian. Hannah is the third-oldest person ever and the oldest black person ever, as well as the oldest living American at the time of her death... |
F | B | July 16, 1875 | March 21, 1993 | 117 years, 248 days |
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| Arkansas | Mary Randall | F | B | April 1, 1887 | November 12, 2000 | 113 years, 225 days |
| California | Mary McKinney | F | W | May 30, 1873 | February 2, 1987 | 113 years, 248 days |
| Colorado | Frankie Jones | F | W | November 16, 1892 | January 31, 2004 | 111 years, 76 days |
| Connecticut | Mary Bidwell | F | W | May 19, 1881 | April 25, 1996 | 114 years, 342 days |
| Delaware | Wally Baker Wally Baker Wally Mary McBride Baker was an American supercentenarian who was the oldest person ever from Delaware. She resided at Parkview Nursing home and Rehabilitation Center in Wilmington, Delaware. One of eight children, longevity runs in the Stiefel family... |
F | W | January 9, 1898 | April 8, 2009 | 111 years, 89 days |
| District of Columbia | Corinne Dixon Taylor Corinne Dixon Taylor Corinne Taylor née Dixon was an American supercentenarian posthumously recognized as the oldest living American and second oldest person in the world upon the death of Emma Tillman on January 28, 2007 until her own death 17 days later. She is also the age record-holder for the District of Columbia... |
F | B | April 2, 1893 | February 14, 2007 | 113 years, 318 days |
| Florida | Carrie C. White | F | W | November 18, 1874 | February 14, 1991 | 116 years, 88 days |
| Onie Ponder Onie Ponder Onezima Cecelia "Onie" Ponder was an American supercentenarian. At the age of 112 years, 119 days, she was the 21st oldest person in the world at her death on December 31, 2010 and the oldest living person in the U.S state of Florida.- Family :Onezima Cecelia "Onie" Ponder was born in Ocala,... |
F | W | September 3, 1898 | December 31, 2010 | 112 years, 119 days | |
| Georgia | Gertrude Baines Gertrude Baines Gertrude Baines was an American supercentenarian, who became the oldest recognized living person according to Guinness World Records on January 2, 2009, until her own death on September 11, 2009, at age 115 years 158 days... |
F | B | April 6, 1894 | September 11, 2009 | 115 years, 158 days |
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| Idaho | Elsie Golcher | F | W | November 29, 1891 | March 2, 2003 | 111 years, 93 days |
| Illinois | Wilhelmina Kott | F | W | March 7, 1880 | September 6, 1994 | 114 years, 183 days |
| Indiana | Edna Parker Edna Parker Edna Ruth Parker was an American supercentenarian and, until her death, was recognized as the oldest person in the world following the death of Yone Minagawa of Japan on August 13, 2007. She assumed the title at age 114 years 115 days... |
F | W | April 20, 1893 | November 26, 2008 | 115 years, 220 days |
| Iowa | Neva Morris Neva Morris Neva Morris was an American supercentenarian. At the age of 114 years, 246 days, she was the oldest verified living person in the United States following the death of 114-year-old Mary Josephine Ray and the last known American born surviving from 1895... |
F | W | August 3, 1895 | April 6, 2010 | 114 years, 246 days |
| Kansas | Delma Kollar | F | W | October 31, 1897 | Living | |
| Kentucky | Mary Anna Boone | F | W | February 10, 1887 | May 13, 2001 | 114 years, 92 days |
| Louisiana | Eunice Sanborn | F | W | July 20, 1896 | January 31, 2011 | 114 years, 195 days |
| Maine | Fred Hale | M | W | December 1, 1890 | November 19, 2004 | 113 years, 354 days |
| Maryland | Pearl Bradford | F | W | March 22, 1892 | November 20, 2003 | 111 years, 243 days |
| Massachusetts | Mary Christian Mary Christian Mary Dorothy Christian née Perry was an American supercentenarian who became the 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... |
F | W | June 12, 1889 | April 20, 2003 | 113 years, 312 days |
| Michigan | Maude Farris-Luse Maude Farris-Luse Maude Farris-Luse, , also known as Maud Luse, was an American supercentenarian. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, she was the oldest person in the world from June 2001 until her death nine months later, at age 115 years, 56 days.-Birth, marriage and family:Maude Farris-Luse was born... |
F | W | January 21, 1887 | March 18, 2002 | 115 years, 56 days |
| Minnesota | Walter Breuning Walter Breuning Walter Breuning 1896 2011) was an American supercentenarian. He was the last known surviving man who was born in 1896. Breuning is the oldest undisputed American-born man on record. He was the last verified American man born in the 19th Century. At the time of his death, Breuning was the third... |
M | W | September 21, 1896 | April 14, 2011 | 114 years, 205 days |
| Mississippi | Bettie Wilson | F | B | September 13, 1890 | February 13, 2006 | 115 years, 153 days |
| Missouri | Nelle Hunt | F | W | July 28, 1887 | February 8, 2001 | 113 years, 195 days |
| Montana | Emma Taylor | F | W | September 1, 1891 | June 24, 2003 | 111 years, 282 days |
| Nebraska | Clara Huhn | F | W | January 28, 1887 | December 20, 2000 | 113 years, 327 days |
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| New Hampshire | Nellie Spencer | F | W | August 24, 1869 | November 13, 1982 | 113 years, 81 days |
| New Jersey | Alphaeus Philemon Cole Alphaeus Philemon Cole Alphaeus Philemon Cole was an American artist, engraver and etcher. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and died in New York City. He was the son of noted engraver Timothy Cole... |
M | W | July 12, 1876 | November 25, 1988 | 112 years, 136 days |
| New Mexico | Anne Olsen | F | W | June 23, 1891 | December 16, 2001 | 110 years, 176 days |
| New York | Grace Thaxton | F | W | June 18, 1891 | July 6, 2005 | 114 years, 18 days |
| North Carolina | Maggie Barnes | F | B | March 6, 1882 | January 19, 1998 | 115 years, 319 days |
| North Dakota | Mary Schumacher | F | W | August 29, 1898 | October 29, 2009 | 111 years, 61 days |
| Ohio | Myrtle Dorsey | F | W | November 22, 1885 | June 25, 2000 | 114 years, 216 days |
| Oklahoma | Margaret Russell | F | W | October 31, 1892 | May 29, 2005 | 112 years, 210 days |
| Oregon | Geneva McNicholl | F | W | December 10, 1889 | January 22, 2002 | 112 years, 43 days |
| Pennsylvania | Sarah Knauss Sarah Knauss Sarah DeRemer Knauss was an American supercentenarian considered the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998, the date of the death of 117-year-old Canadian Marie-Louise Meilleur, until her own death... |
F | W | September 24, 1880 | December 30, 1999 | 119 years, 97 days |
| Rhode Island | Lydia Carvalho | F | W | January 21, 1892 | February 15, 2004 | 112 years, 25 days |
| South Carolina | Mamie Rearden | F | B | September 7, 1898 | Living | |
| Frances Street | F | B | March 28, 1897 | August 24, 2010 | 113 years, 149 days | |
| South Dakota | Berna Dupertuis | F | W | September 21, 1888 | June 6, 2001 | 112 years, 258 days |
| Tennessee | Elizabeth Bolden Elizabeth Bolden Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was an American supercentenarian woman who, at the time of her death at age 116 years and 118 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the then world's oldest living person. She was the last remaining documented person born in 1890. Bolden was the seventh... |
F | B | August 15, 1890 | December 11, 2006 | 116 years, 118 days |
| Texas | Margaret Skeete Margaret Skeete Margaret Skeete née Seward was an American supercentenarian and the oldest living American from 1993 to 1994. Skeete is the oldest person ever from Texas. She was 115 years 192 days old at the time of her death, and is the 15th oldest person ever as of October 2008... |
F | W | October 27, 1878 | May 7, 1994 | 115 years, 192 days |
| Utah | John Joe Begay | M | A/I | March 15, 1888 | September 20, 2001 | 113 years, 189 days |
| Vermont | Jessica Swift | F | W | September 17, 1871 | January 2, 1982 | 110 years, 107 days |
| Virginia | Mathew Beard | M | B | July 9, 1870 | February 16, 1985 | 114 years, 222 days |
| Martha Graham | F | B | December 1844 | June 25, 1959 | 114 years, ca Circa Circa , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date... . 180 days |
|
| Washington | Bessie Waldern | F | W | October 1, 1887 | May 8, 1998 | 110 years, 219 days |
| West Virginia | Ettie Mae Greene Ettie Mae Greene Ettie Mae Greene née Thomas was an American supercentenarian who was recognized by Guinness World Records as the 'oldest living American' in 1991 . She was born in Wayside, West Virginia, and worked as a seamstress and a farmer... |
F | W | September 8, 1877 | February 26, 1992 | 114 years, 171 days |
| Wisconsin | Anna Balsiger | F | W | February 11, 1889 | September 14, 2001 | 112 years, 215 days |
| Wyoming |
Territories
| Territory | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | Emiliano Mercado del Toro Emiliano Mercado del Toro Emiliano Mercado del Toro was, at age 115, the world's oldest person for six weeks, and the world's oldest man from November 19, 2004 until his own death on January 24, 2007. He is the oldest verified military veteran ever... |
M | August 21, 1891 | January 24, 2007 | 115 years, 156 days |
Chronological list of the oldest living person in the United States since 1973
Those entries color-coded as "verified" have been validated by GRG. Those color-coded as 'pending' are backed by at least one document reviewed by GRG supporting the reported age, but not the three necessary for validation by that institution. Those color-coded as 'unverified' are not (yet) backed by documentation supporting the reported age to the standards of GRG.| From | To | Name | Sex | Race | Reported age(s) when oldest | Reported lifespan | State of death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ? | May 18, 1974 | Clarida Roy | F | W | 110 | October 19, 1863 – May 18, 1974 110 years, 211 days |
Maine |
| May 18, 1974 | August 5, 1976 |
Mary Bittlebrun | F | W | 110 – 112 | March 19, 1864 – August 6, 1976 112 years, 140 days |
Arkansas |
| August 6, 1976 | December 2, 1977 |
Sophia DeMuth | F | W | 110 – 111 | June 30, 1866 – December 2, 1977 111 years, 155 days |
Nebraska |
| December 2, 1977 | January 22, 1981 |
Fannie Thomas | F | W | 110 – 113 | April 14, 1867 – January 22, 1981 113 years, 283 days |
California |
| January 22, 1981 | November 13, 1982 |
Nellie Spencer | F | W | 111 – 113 | August 24, 1869 – November 13, 1982 113 years, 81 days |
New Jersey |
| November 13, 1982 | October 13, 1983 ( days) |
Emma Wilson | F | W | 112 – 113 | May 12, 1870 – October 13, 1983 113 years, 154 days |
Missouri |
| October 13, 1983 | February 16, 1985 |
Mathew Beard | M | B | 113 – 114 | July 9, 1870 – February 16, 1985 114 years, 222 days |
Florida |
| February 16, 1985 | December 31, 1985 (c. days) |
Ollie Bay | F | W | 112 – 113 | November 11, 1872 – 31? December 1985 113 years, ca Circa Circa , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date... . 50 days |
Illinois |
| December 31, 1985 | September 20, 1986 ( days) |
Mamie Eva Keith Mamie Eva Keith Mamie Eva Walter Keith was an American supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world from February 21, 1986 until her death seven months later in the Winchester House nursing home, Libertyville, Illinois... |
F | W | 112 – 113 | March 22, 1873 – September 20, 1986 113 years, 182 days |
Illinois |
| September 20, 1986 | February 2, 1987 ( days) |
Mary McKinney | F | W | 113 | May 30, 1873 – February 2, 1987 113 years, 248 days |
California |
| February 2, 1987 | January 11, 1988 ( days) |
Florence Knapp | F | W | 113 – 114 | October 10, 1873 – January 11, 1988 114 years, 93 days |
Pennsylvania |
| January 11, 1988 | February 14, 1991 |
Carrie C. White | F | W | 113 – 116 | November 18, 1874 – February 14, 1991 116 years, 88 days |
Florida |
| February 14, 1991 | March 21, 1993 |
Lucy Hannah Lucy Hannah Lucy Hannah née Terrell was an American supercentenarian. Hannah is the third-oldest person ever and the oldest black person ever, as well as the oldest living American at the time of her death... |
F | B | 115 – 117 | July 16, 1875 – March 21, 1993 117 years, 248 days |
Michigan |
| March 21, 1993 | May 7, 1994 |
Margaret Skeete Margaret Skeete Margaret Skeete née Seward was an American supercentenarian and the oldest living American from 1993 to 1994. Skeete is the oldest person ever from Texas. She was 115 years 192 days old at the time of her death, and is the 15th oldest person ever as of October 2008... |
F | W | 114 – 115 | October 27, 1878 – May 7, 1994 115 years, 192 days |
Virginia |
| May 7, 1994 | September 6, 1994 ( days) |
Wilhelmina Kott | F | W | 114 | March 7, 1880 – September 6, 1994 114 years, 183 days |
Illinois |
| September 6, 1994 | December 30, 1999 |
Sarah Knauss Sarah Knauss Sarah DeRemer Knauss was an American supercentenarian considered the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998, the date of the death of 117-year-old Canadian Marie-Louise Meilleur, until her own death... |
F | W | 113 – 119 | September 24, 1880 – December 30, 1999 119 years, 97 days |
Pennsylvania |
| December 30, 1999 | June 25, 2000 ( days) |
Myrtle Dorsey | F | W | 114 | November 22, 1885 – June 25, 2000 114 years, 216 days |
Ohio |
| June 25, 2000 | March 18, 2002 |
Maude Farris-Luse Maude Farris-Luse Maude Farris-Luse, , also known as Maud Luse, was an American supercentenarian. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, she was the oldest person in the world from June 2001 until her death nine months later, at age 115 years, 56 days.-Birth, marriage and family:Maude Farris-Luse was born... |
F | W | 113 – 115 | January 21, 1887 – March 18, 2002 115 years, 56 days |
Michigan |
| March 18, 2002 | May 28, 2002 ( days) |
Grace Clawson | F | W | 114 | November 15, 1887 – May 28, 2002 114 years, 194 days |
Florida |
| May 28, 2002 | August 21, 2002 ( days) |
Adelina Domingues | F | W | 114 | February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002 114 years, 183 days |
California |
| August 21, 2002 | December 29, 2002 ( days) |
Mae Harrington | F | W | 113 | January 20, 1889 – December 29, 2002 113 years, 343 days |
New York |
| December 29, 2002 | April 20, 2003 ( days) |
Mary Christian Mary Christian Mary Dorothy Christian née Perry was an American supercentenarian who became the 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... |
F | W | 113 | June 12, 1889 – April 20, 2003 113 years, 312 days |
California |
| April 20, 2003 | October 5, 2003 ( days) |
Elena Slough | F | W | 113 – 114 | July 4, 1889 – October 5, 2003 114 years, 93 days |
New Jersey |
| October 5, 2003 | May 14, 2004 ( days) |
Charlotte Benkner Charlotte Benkner Charlotte Benkner née Enterlein was an American supercentenarian and the oldest verified living person from November 2003 until sufficient documentation was found to validate the age of Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan of Puerto Rico in March 2004... |
F | W | 113 – 114 | November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004 114 years, 180 days |
Ohio |
| May 14, 2004 | December 1, 2004 ( days) |
Emma Verona Johnston Emma Verona Johnston Emma Verona Johnston née Calhoun was an American supercentenarian recognized as the "oldest living American" from May 2004 until her death at age 114 years 117 days. Verona was born in Indianola, Iowa as one of a large family... |
F | W | 113 – 114 | August 6, 1890 – December 1, 2004 114 years, 117 days |
Ohio |
| December 1, 2004 | December 11, 2006 |
Elizabeth Bolden Elizabeth Bolden Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was an American supercentenarian woman who, at the time of her death at age 116 years and 118 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the then world's oldest living person. She was the last remaining documented person born in 1890. Bolden was the seventh... |
F | B | 114 – 116 | August 15, 1890 – December 11, 2006 116 years, 118 days |
Tennessee |
| December 11, 2006 | January 28, 2007 ( days) |
Emma Tillman Emma Tillman Emmaline "Emma" Fanchon Tillman, was an American supercentenarian and, at age 114 years 67 days, the oldest validated living person from January 24, 2007 until her own death four days later. She was the last remaining documented person born in 1892.... |
F | B | 114 | November 22, 1892 – January 28, 2007 114 years, 67 days |
Connecticut |
| January 28, 2007 | February 14, 2007 ( days) |
Corinne Dixon Taylor Corinne Dixon Taylor Corinne Taylor née Dixon was an American supercentenarian posthumously recognized as the oldest living American and second oldest person in the world upon the death of Emma Tillman on January 28, 2007 until her own death 17 days later. She is also the age record-holder for the District of Columbia... |
F | B | 113 | April 2, 1893 – February 14, 2007 113 years, 318 days |
District of Columbia |
| February 14, 2007 | November 26, 2008 |
Edna Parker Edna Parker Edna Ruth Parker was an American supercentenarian and, until her death, was recognized as the oldest person in the world following the death of Yone Minagawa of Japan on August 13, 2007. She assumed the title at age 114 years 115 days... |
F | W | 113 – 115 | April 20, 1893 – November 26, 2008 115 years, 220 days |
Indiana |
| November 26, 2008 | September 11, 2009 ( days) |
Gertrude Baines Gertrude Baines Gertrude Baines was an American supercentenarian, who became the oldest recognized living person according to Guinness World Records on January 2, 2009, until her own death on September 11, 2009, at age 115 years 158 days... |
F | B | 114 – 115 | April 6, 1894 – September 11, 2009 115 years, 158 days |
California |
| September 11, 2009 | March 7, 2010 ( days) |
Mary Josephine Ray Mary Josephine Ray Mary Josephine Ray was the world's second-oldest verified living person at the time of her death... |
F | W | 114 | May 17, 1895 – March 7, 2010 114 years, 294 days |
New Hampshire |
| March 7, 2010 | April 6, 2010 ( days) |
Neva Morris Neva Morris Neva Morris was an American supercentenarian. At the age of 114 years, 246 days, she was the oldest verified living person in the United States following the death of 114-year-old Mary Josephine Ray and the last known American born surviving from 1895... |
F | W | 114 | August 3, 1895 – April 6, 2010 114 years, 246 days |
Iowa |
| April 6, 2010 | January 31, 2011 ( days) |
Eunice Sanborn | F | W | 113 – 114 | July 20, 1896 – January 31, 2011 114 years, 195 days |
Texas |
| January 31, 2011 | Present ( days) |
Besse Cooper Besse Cooper Besse Berry Cooper is an American supercentenarian. After the death of the Brazilian supercentenarian Maria Gomes Valentim on June 21, 2011, Cooper became the world's oldest living person... |
F | W | 114 – 115* | born August 26, 1896 age |
Living in Georgia |
Ann Pouder
NEE
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Ann Alexander (London, United Kingdom April 8, 1807 – Baltimore, Maryland, United States July 10, 1917) was one of the first recognized supercentenarians in the world. Her age at death was . When Pouder was twelve years old her family immigrated to the United States. There she lived the following 98 years of her life in Baltimore, Maryland. She married, although became a widow very early and had no children. Her extreme longevity claim was certified by Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
. In her last few months, she was bedridden, blind and almost deaf, but her mind remained sharp.
Fannie Thomas
Fannie Leona Thomas (April 14, 1867 – January 22, 1981) was listed in Guinness World RecordsGuinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
as the oldest living American supercentenarian. As the Shigechiyo Izumi
Shigechiyo Izumi
was a Japanese centenarian who was titled the oldest living person after the death of Niwa Kawamoto, also from Japan. His case was first verfied by Guinness World Records, who titled him the oldest person ever, but Guinness have in recent years backed from their previous statement; in the Guinness...
case was later disputed, Thomas may in fact have been the world's oldest person when she died at 113 years and 283 days. Regardless, she was still the world's oldest living woman at the time of her death.
Mathew Beard
Mathew Beard (July 9, 1870 – February 16, 1985) was an American supercentenarian and the oldest person from the state of Virginia. Originally, his case was verified but it is now disputed. He is the oldest American-born male, leaving Walter BreuningWalter Breuning
Walter Breuning 1896 2011) was an American supercentenarian. He was the last known surviving man who was born in 1896. Breuning is the oldest undisputed American-born man on record. He was the last verified American man born in the 19th Century. At the time of his death, Breuning was the third...
as the oldest undisputed American-born male. The oldest undisputed person from Virginia is Agatha Mitchell.
At the time of Beard's death, he was the second oldest man ever; he is currently the fourth. He is also the oldest man to not have held the title of oldest living man.
Beard is the second oldest person to die in Florida, being surpassed only by the also disputed case of Carrie C. White. Shigechiyo Izumi
Shigechiyo Izumi
was a Japanese centenarian who was titled the oldest living person after the death of Niwa Kawamoto, also from Japan. His case was first verfied by Guinness World Records, who titled him the oldest person ever, but Guinness have in recent years backed from their previous statement; in the Guinness...
was credited as the oldest living man (and person) at the time of Beard's death but his case is no longer accepted.
Florence Homan
Florence Homan (November 18, 1893 – August 13, 2006) was Ohio's oldest person since May 23, 2006, and was listed in Guinness World RecordsGuinness World Records
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(2007 edition) as one of the top 15 world's oldest living people at the time. Her ranking had been tied for 12th before she died at the age of 112 years and 268 days, which at the time was older than the then oldest living persons in France (112), the United Kingdom (111) and Germany (110). Born Florence Wilker, she married Arthur Homan in 1941. He died in 1988. Due to the late marriage, they had no children. She lived on her own until age 105, when she moved into a nursing home.
Mary McKinney
Mary Elizabeth "Mamie" McKinney born Wallace (May 30, 1873 – February 2, 1987) was briefly recognized by Guinness as the world's oldest person. Following the death of fellow 113-year-old Mamie Eva KeithMamie Eva Keith
Mamie Eva Walter Keith was an American supercentenarian and the oldest recognized person in the world from February 21, 1986 until her death seven months later in the Winchester House nursing home, Libertyville, Illinois...
in September 1986, she became the "world's oldest person" according to the Guinness Book of Records. However, her own death five months later in Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
meant that she never appeared in the record book, even though her Guinness recognition made the news. She lived for 113 years and 248 days.
Florence Knapp
Florence Knapp (October 10, 1873 – January 11, 1988) was, for the last two weeks of her life, recognized by the Guinness Book of World RecordsGuinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
as the oldest person in the world.
Born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
Lansdale is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 28 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Early in the 20th century, its industries included agricultural implement works, a canning factory, foundries, brickyards, a silk mill, and manufacturers of cigars, stoves, shirts, rope, iron drain pipe,...
, 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 age 108
Centenarian
A centenarian is a person who is or lives beyond the age of 100 years. Because current average life expectancies across the world are less than 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. Much rarer, a supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more, something only...
.
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
Anna Eliza Williams
Anna Eliza Williams was a British supercentenarian and the oldest person in the world during 1987....
on December 27, 1987 meant that Knapp became the oldest verified recognized living person. Her death just 15 days after meant that she never appeared in a Guinness Book as the oldest living person.
Her death caused some confusion as to who her successor was, with Guinness recognition and press publicity alighting first on Orpha Nusbaum (August 1875 – March 1988), who died before the 1989 edition's deadline, then Birdie May Vogt (August 1876 – July 1989), who appeared in the 1989 edition's main text, then Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living to the age of . She lived in Arles, France, for her entire life, and outlived both her daughter and grandson. She became especially well known from the age of 113, when the...
, 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.
Knapp is listed as one of the 70 longest lived people ever; her lifespan is tied with that of Elena Slough.
Flossie Elizabeth Page
Flossie Elizabeth Page née Bishop (June 12, 1893 – February 22, 2006) was an American supercentenarian who broke the record for the oldest person of KansasKansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
on record on February 9, 2006, the previous record of 112 years, 241 days having been set by Katherine Jones in 1992, and died exactly two weeks after achieving this feat. She was born in Haven, Kansas
Haven, Kansas
Haven is a city in Reno County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,237.-History:The Reno County Museum was originally located in Haven.-Geography:Haven is located at...
and died in Butler County
Butler County, Kansas
Butler County is a county located in South Central Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 65,880. Its county seat and most populous city is El Dorado. The county is a part of the Wichita Metropolitan Statistical Area.-19th century:It was named in...
.
Page ranked as the sixth-oldest person in the U.S. and eleventh in the world when she died, aged 112 years and 255 days.
After graduating from high school, she taught at a one room school house near Lewis
Lewis, Kansas
Lewis is a city in Edwards County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 451.-Geography:Lewis is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
, and later worked at the War Risk Insurance
War risk insurance
War risk insurance is a type of insurance which covers damage due to acts of war, including invasion, insurrection, rebellion and hijacking. Some policies also cover damage due to weapons of mass destruction. It is most commonly used in the shipping and aviation industries...
Department in Washington, D.C. upon the start of World War I. Page married Fredric William Page in 1926, who died in 1967. She attributed her longevity
Longevity
The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography or known as "long life", especially when it concerns someone or something lasting longer than expected ....
to living a moral life, and taking no medication whatsoever.
Carrie C. White
Carrie C. White, née Joyner (November 18, 1874? – February 14, 1991), was recognized by the Guinness Book of World RecordsGuinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
as the oldest person in the world around the time she celebrated her alleged 114th birthday in 1988. She held that title until her death in 1991, supposedly at the age of 116. However, her date of birth is disputed.
While a number of records give White's birthdate as November 18, 1874, none of these dates to before 1909, the year she was committed to the Florida State Hospital for the Insane by her husband, John White. The official diagnosis was "post typhoid psychosis", though this is uncertain; her caretakers felt that she showed no signs of mental illness serious enough to warrant institutionalization. If the 1874 date is correct, she would have been 35 years and one day old at the time. Abandoned by her family, White spent the next 75 years at the facility, until being moved to a nursing home
Nursing home
A nursing home, convalescent home, skilled nursing unit , care home, rest home, or old people's home provides a type of care of residents: it is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living...
in Palatka, Florida
Palatka, Florida
Palatka is a city in Putnam County, Florida, United States. The population was 10,033 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 10,796. It is the county seat of Putnam County and includes East Palatka. Palatka is the principal city of the Palatka...
, in 1984. She remained there until she died in 1991.
All records giving White's date of birth November 18, 1874 date to after her hospital stay, and as such her date of birth is unconfirmed. A Census record exists for a Carrie Joyner born in Florida in 1873; if this were the same Carrie White she would have been 117 when she died, rather than 116. The Social Security Administration
Social Security Administration
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits...
found evidence of a Carrie Joyner born in August 1888 to John and Sallie Joyner. Researcher Heiner Maier suggests that this is a more likely match for the Carrie White who died in 1991; if so, she would have been 102 when she died. In this case Florida State Hospital may have simply made up the 1874 date, and later records replicated the error. However, the lack of information on White's early life means that her true date of birth cannot be confirmed unequivocally.
Joe Thomas
Joseph "Joe" Thomas (May 1, 1875 – December 14, 1986) was an American supercentenarian and the oldest recognized living man from February 1986 until his own death. He lived in Louisiana. Following his death, Herman Smith-JohannsenHerman Smith-Johannsen
Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen, CM was a Norwegian-Canadian supercentenarian who gained widespread recognition for being one of the first people to introduce the sport of cross-country skiing to Canada and North America...
became the world's oldest living man.
(Note: this is a retroactive reconstruction of history. In reality, the Joe Thomas case was not verified until July 2002 by the SSA
Social Security Administration
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits...
study, and Guinness
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
did not recuperate the "oldest living man" category until 2000).
Wilhelmina Geringer Kott
Wilhelmina Kott née Geringer (March 7, 1880 – September 6, 1994) was an American supercentenarian recognized by Guinness World RecordsGuinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
as the 'oldest living American' in its 1995 edition, following the death of Margaret Skeete
Margaret Skeete
Margaret Skeete née Seward was an American supercentenarian and the oldest living American from 1993 to 1994. Skeete is the oldest person ever from Texas. She was 115 years 192 days old at the time of her death, and is the 15th oldest person ever as of October 2008...
. Born in Peru, Illinois
Peru, Illinois
Peru is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,295 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area...
as one of 16 children to George and Sophia Geringer, she moved to Chicago in 1881, where she lived almost her entire life and subsequently died.
Her age was subject to a one-year discrepancy. Guinness recognized her as born in 1879 (based on the 1900 Census
United States Census, 1900
The Twelfth United States Census, conducted by the Census Office on June 1, 1900, determined the resident population of the United States to be 76,212,168, an increase of 21.0 percent over the 62,979,766 persons enumerated during the 1890 Census....
), but later research by the SSA
Social Security Administration
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits...
study showed that she was listed as two months old in the 1880 Census
United States Census, 1880
The United States Census of 1880 was the tenth United States Census conducted by the Census Bureau during June 1880. It was the first time that women were permitted to be enumerators...
, making her age more likely 114, not 115.
As of October 2011, Kott is listed as one of the 60 longest lived people ever.
Mary Bidwell
Mary Electa Bidwell née Nobel (May 19, 1881– April 25, 1996) was an AmericanUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
supercentenarian
Supercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
. She died at age 114 years 342 days on April 25, 1996, making her the 30th oldest verified person ever. She was also the oldest person ever to die in Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
.
Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel. She was a descendant of John Bidwell, one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...
. Bidwell worked as a teacher in a one-room school house for six years. She married Charles Hubbell Bidwell, a distant cousin, in 1906.
Bidwell lived on her own in North Haven, Connecticut
North Haven, Connecticut
North Haven is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut on the outskirts of New Haven, Connecticut.North Haven is less than ten miles from downtown New Haven and Yale University. It is near Sleeping Giant State Park and home the Quinnipiac University School of Health Sciences, the School of Nursing,...
until she was 110. Bidwell died at the Arden House, a nursing home in Hamden, Connecticut
Hamden, Connecticut
Hamden is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The town's nickname is "The Land of the Sleeping Giant." Hamden is home to Quinnipiac University. The population was 58,180 according to the Census Bureau's 2005 estimates...
. She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1881.
Carrie Lazenby
Carrie Lazenby née Jenkins (February 9, 1882 – September 14, 1996) was an American supercentenarian. She died at age 114 years, 218 days, making her the 42th oldest person on record (tied with Japanese woman Ura Koyama on April 5, 2005), the sixteenth-oldest American person on record, and the seventh-oldest African AmericanAfrican American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
person on record. Lazenby's record as the oldest person ever in Georgia was surpassed by Gertrude Baines
Gertrude Baines
Gertrude Baines was an American supercentenarian, who became the oldest recognized living person according to Guinness World Records on January 2, 2009, until her own death on September 11, 2009, at age 115 years 158 days...
, on November 11, 2008.
As of July 2011, Lazenby is listed as one of the 45 longest lived people ever.
Maggie Barnes
Maggie Pauline Barnes née Hinnant (March 6, 1882 – January 19, 1998) was an American supercentenarian. She was a resident of Johnston County, North CarolinaJohnston County, North Carolina
-Major highways:* Interstate 40* Interstate 95* U.S. Highway 70* U.S. Highway 301* U.S. Highway 701-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 121,965 people, 46,595 households, and 33,688 families residing in the county. The population density was 154 people per square mile . There were...
. Barnes died from complications following a minor foot infection. Barnes, who was born to a slave and married a tenant farmer
Tenant farmer
A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord. Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management; while tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying...
, was survived by four children; 11 of her children preceded her in death.
Some dispute exists as to her date of birth. Though the family Bible gives the 1882 date, she is listed as having been born in 1881 by the 1900 US Census, and she is listed as having been born in 1880 on her marriage license
Marriage license
A marriage license is a document issued, either by a church or state authority, authorizing a couple to marry. The procedure for obtaining a license varies between countries and has changed over time...
. Authenticating to the latter of those dates, Barnes was 115 years, 319 days old when she died.
If the cases of Carrie C. White and Kamato Hongo
Kamato Hongo
was a Japanese supercentenarian and apparently the world's oldest recognized living person from March 2002 until her death. Aged 116 years 45 days at the time of her death, she was the last remaining documented person born before 1889.-Biography:...
are excluded, Barnes is the 8th oldest person on record. She is also the oldest verified person who has died at 115.
As of December 2009, Barnes is listed as one of the 15 longest lived people ever.
Johnson Parks
Johnson Parks (October 15, 1884 – July 17, 1998) is the oldest undisputed person to die in Florida. At the time of his death, he was 113 years, 275 days.Johnson Parks only held the oldest living man title for 85 days, making him one of the shortest tenure of oldest living man, but there are shorter: Herman Smith-Johannsen
Herman Smith-Johannsen
Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen, CM was a Norwegian-Canadian supercentenarian who gained widespread recognition for being one of the first people to introduce the sport of cross-country skiing to Canada and North America...
held it for 22 days and Henry Allingham
Henry Allingham
Henry William Allingham was a British supercentenarian, First World War veteran and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world...
for 29 days.
At the time of his death, Parks was the second oldest undisputed male ever, behind only Christian Mortensen
Christian Mortensen
Thomas Peter Thorvald Kristian Ferdinand Mortensen , known as an adult as Christian Mortensen, was a Danish supercentenarian. At the time of his death he was 115 years and 252 days old—the longest fully authenticated lifespan of any male in history...
.
Parks is in the top 10 oldest men ever.
Clara Huhn
Clara Huhn née Herling (January 28, 1887 – December 20, 2000) was an American homemaker and supercentenarian. Born in a home near Clarkson, NebraskaClarkson, Nebraska
Clarkson is a city in Colfax County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 685 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Clarkson is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
, she lived near Schuyler
Schuyler, Nebraska
Schuyler is a city in Colfax County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 5,371 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Colfax County. The city is named after former Vice President of the United States, Schuyler Colfax...
for most of her life. She remained active, healthy and independent until the last few months of her life, and even answered an interview just before her 113th birthday. At age 113 years, 327 days, she is the oldest person on record born in Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....
, but she was not the oldest person on record to die in that particular state, since she died in La Mesa, California
La Mesa, California
La Mesa is a city in San Diego County, California. The population was 57,065 at the 2010 census, up from 54,749 at the 2000 census. It was founded in 1869 and officially incorporated as a city on February 16, 1912. Its official flower is the bougainvillea....
. The title of the oldest person on record to die in Nebraska belongs to Helen Stetter
Helen Stetter
Helen Caroline Stetter was the oldest living Nebraskan and, at the time of her death at age 113, the fourth oldest verified person in the world. Born in Chadron, Nebraska, the only Nebraskan older than she was, was Clara Huhn, born in 1887, who died in 2000 at the age of 113 years and 327 days...
, who died on June 1, 2007 at age 113 years, 195 days.
Huhn is listed as one of the 100 longest lived people ever.
Delvina Dahlheimer
Mary Delvina Dahlheimer née Morissette (December 31, 1888 – March 13, 2002) was an American supercentenarian. At the time of her death, aged 113 years and 72 days, she was the oldest person ever in Minnesota, and the fourth-oldest person in the world. After she broke her hip in 2000, she was sent to the Guardian Angels Care Center, where she lived out the rest of her days. Dahlheimer's Minnesota state record title was surpassed by Catherine HagelCatherine Hagel
Catherine Helen Hagel née Dahlheimer was an American supercentenarian.She was born in Dayton, Minnesota, and was, at the time of her death, the third-oldest validated person in the world...
on February 9, 2008. Incidentally, Hagel was the sister-in-law of Dahlheimer. Hagel died on December 6, 2008 aged 114, the third-oldest living person in the world at the time.
Mae Harrington
Mae Harrington née Maxwell (January 20, 1889 – December 29, 2002) was an American supercentenarian who became the oldest person in the history of the state of New York, breaking the record held since the 1920s by then world's oldest person Delina FilkinsDelina Filkins
Delina Filkins, née Ecker was an American supercentenarian who was the earliest verified person to reach the ages of 112 and 113, in 1927 and 1928, respectively. Filkins was the first verified person to surpass the longest confirmed lifespan by two years...
, also 113, but her own record was subsequently broken in 2005 by Grace Thaxton, who was born in the state before moving to and dying in Kentucky. Because her age was not authenticated during her lifetime, the public recognition she was due went to another 113-year-old, Mary Parr
Mary Parr
Mary Parr was an American supercentenarian. She was believed to be the oldest person in the United States and second oldest in the world when she died....
(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.
Harrington is listed as one of the 95 longest lived people ever.
At her death, Harrington was the oldest living person in the United States, and may have been the oldest living person (the case of Kamato Hongo
Kamato Hongo
was a Japanese supercentenarian and apparently the world's oldest recognized living person from March 2002 until her death. Aged 116 years 45 days at the time of her death, she was the last remaining documented person born before 1889.-Biography:...
remains doubtful).
After her death, Mary Christian became the oldest living person in the United States, and if the questionable case of Kamato Hongo
Kamato Hongo
was a Japanese supercentenarian and apparently the world's oldest recognized living person from March 2002 until her death. Aged 116 years 45 days at the time of her death, she was the last remaining documented person born before 1889.-Biography:...
is excluded, Yukichi Chuganji
Yukichi Chuganji
was a Japanese supercentenarian and "...was recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest man..." in Japan until his death at age 114 years 189 days....
would have became the oldest living person, and the first man to hold that title since the disputed Shigechiyo Izumi
Shigechiyo Izumi
was a Japanese centenarian who was titled the oldest living person after the death of Niwa Kawamoto, also from Japan. His case was first verfied by Guinness World Records, who titled him the oldest person ever, but Guinness have in recent years backed from their previous statement; in the Guinness...
held the title for nearly a decade.
Elena Slough
Elena Proctor Slough née Rodenbaugh (July 4, 1889 – October 5, 2003) was the oldest recognized person in the United States from the death of Mary ChristianMary Christian
Mary Dorothy Christian née Perry was an American supercentenarian who became the 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...
on April 20, 2003 until Slough's own death that following October, six months later. After her death, the oldest recognized person in the United States was Charlotte Benkner
Charlotte Benkner
Charlotte Benkner née Enterlein was an American supercentenarian and the oldest verified living person from November 2003 until sufficient documentation was found to validate the age of Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan of Puerto Rico in March 2004...
.
Born in Horsham, Pennsylvania
Horsham, Pennsylvania
Horsham is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 14,842 at the 2010 census. Horsham is located entirely within Horsham Township, and it is home to Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove.In 2007, Horsham was named the 15th best...
, she married twice and had children by each marriage. Incidentally, her 90-year-old daughter died three days before her at the same Cape May, New Jersey
Cape May, New Jersey
Cape May is a city at the southern tip of Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County, New Jersey, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean and is one of the country's oldest vacation resort destinations. It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 United States...
nursing home.
Some sources date her birth to 1888, but the oldest records state that she was born in 1889.
As of December 2009, Slough is listed as one of the 70 longest lived people ever.
Mary Margaret Smith
Mary Margaret Smith (October 7, 1893 – May 23, 2006) was an American supercentenarian and, at the time of her death at age 112 years and 228 days, Ohio's oldest verified living person. Smith also ranked fifth in the United States and was the 13th oldest person in the world. She was born in Pittsburgh and moved to Ohio in 1898. Smith had two husbands. She lived on her own until age 95 and did not move into a nursing home until the age of 108.She was listed in the 2007 edition of Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...
as one of the top-15 oldest people in the world, and died in Jefferson, Ohio
Jefferson, Ohio
Jefferson is a village in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,572 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Ashtabula County. Modern-day Jefferson sports the world's only perambulator museum and a historical complex including several restored 18th century buildings....
.
Consuelo Moreno-López
Consuelo Moreno-López (February 5, 1893 – November 13, 2004) was born in Spanish MoroccoSpanish Morocco
The Spanish protectorate of Morocco was the area of Morocco under colonial rule by the Spanish Empire, established by the Treaty of Fez in 1912 and ending in 1956, when both France and Spain recognized Moroccan independence.-Territorial borders:...
(then a colony of Spain) to Spanish parents. She later emigrated
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States. The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants,...
to the United States in 1960. She died stateside, aged 111 years and 282 days, as the result of an adverse reaction to a flu shot. Moreno-López holds the longevity
Longevity
The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography or known as "long life", especially when it concerns someone or something lasting longer than expected ....
record for Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
, which declared its independence in 1956.
Grace Thaxton
Grace Thaxton née Menges (June 18, 1891 – July 6, 2005) was a supercentenarian, the oldest person in Kentucky, the fourth-oldest person in the U.S. and the sixth-oldest documented person in the world at the time of her death at age 114. Grace was the oldest documented person ever born in the state of New York, in RocklandRockland, New York
Rockland is a town in the northern part of Sullivan County, New York, United States. At the 2000 census, the population was 3,913.- History :The town, like most of this part of New York, was part of the Hardenburgh Patent...
to be precise, and narrowly missed the all-time age record for a Kentucky resident of 114 years and 92 days, set by Mary Anna Boone in 2001, when she died in Winchester
Winchester, Kentucky
Winchester is a city in and the county seat of Clark County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 16,724 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
from a bout of pneumonia
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
not long after her last birthday.
Moreover, her own mother (Harriet Menges née Hardenburgh) died at 109 (Aug 25, 1860 - Dec 1969), nearly a supercentenarian herself, and Thaxton almost lived to see her son Robert turn 90 on July 12, 2005. Thaxton is listed as one of the 85 longest lived people ever.
Bettie Wilson
Bettie Antry Wilson née Rutherford (September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006) became the oldest verified living person in the United States with the death of 114-year-old Emma Verona JohnstonEmma Verona Johnston
Emma Verona Johnston née Calhoun was an American supercentenarian recognized as the "oldest living American" from May 2004 until her death at age 114 years 117 days. Verona was born in Indianola, Iowa as one of a large family...
on December 1, 2004. She lost this designation when the age of Elizabeth Bolden
Elizabeth Bolden
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden was an American supercentenarian woman who, at the time of her death at age 116 years and 118 days, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the then world's oldest living person. She was the last remaining documented person born in 1890. Bolden was the seventh...
was verified in April 2005. 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). Her oldest son, Will Rogers, was said to have been born (October 27, 1909 – October 21, 2008) making him 98 years old himself at the time (although the 1930 census
United States Census, 1930
The Fifteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau one month from April 1, 1930, determined the resident population of the United States to be 122,775,046, an increase of 13.7 percent over the 106,021,537 persons enumerated during the 1920 Census.-Census questions:The 1930 Census...
lists him as 19 years old in April 1930, indicating that he was 95 instead). 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
New Albany, Mississippi
New Albany is a city in Union County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 8,526 at the 2010 census. New Albany is the county seat of Union County. New Albany was first organized in 1840 at the site of a grist mill and saw mill on the Tallahatchie River and was developed as a river port...
home on February 13, 2006, aged 115 years, 153 days. She was survived by the aforementioned son (1909–2008), five grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, 95 great-great-grandchildren and 38 great-great-great grandchildren.
As of May 2011, Wilson is listed as one of the 20 longest lived people ever.
Marion Higgins
Marion Higgins née Bigelow (New York City, New York, June 26, 1893 – Seal Beach, CaliforniaSeal Beach, California
-Neighborhoods:Seal Beach encompasses the Leisure World retirement gated community with roughly 9,000 residents. This was the first major planned retirement community of its type in the U.S...
, March 2, 2006) was an American supercentenarian. At an early age, she moved to Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
, and later on to California.
On May 29, 2005, Marion was recognized as California's oldest living person, four weeks shy of 112, following the death of Margaret Russell, aged 112.
Her memory was remarkable for a person her age. She could remember from age one, and recite poems backwards.
Moreover, she wrote her first book herself at the 'tender' age of 102.
Marion died from congestive heart failure, aged 112 years and 249 days. She was ranked as sixth-oldest in the U.S. and 11th in the world at the time of her death.
Grace Nelsen Jones
Grace Rebecca Jones née Nelsen (June 4, 1893 – April 24, 2006) was born in Richmond, VirginiaRichmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
, United States to Norwegian immigrant
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States. The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants,...
parents. Grace was their 12th and last child, born when her mother was already 43 years old. She later married Charles Jones and started a family of her own. In 2005, Grace became the Virginia state recordholder for the oldest verified person born over there. She died at the age of 112 years and 324 days. At the time of her death, Jones ranked as the world's 10th-oldest person.
Thomas Nelson, Sr.
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 fellow black AmericanAfrican American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
Moses Hardy
Moses Hardy
Moses Hardy was, at age 112 or 113, the last black veteran of World War I and one of the last surviving American veterans of that war. The son of former slaves, Hardy was born in either 1893 or 1894 and lived a religious and farming life until he signed up to serve overseas in World War I in July...
) for one month until his own death.
He had been living in Port Arthur, Texas
Port Arthur, Texas
-Demographics:As of the 2000 census, there were 57,755 people, 21,839 households, and 14,675 families residing in the city. The population density was 696.5 people per square mile . There were 24,713 housing units at an average density of 298.0 per square mile...
since the early 1930s. He opened a candy shop in the mid-1930s, and worked there for more than 60 years.
Delphia Spencer Hankins
Delphia Hankins née Spencer (July 23, 1896 – October 17, 2007) was an American supercentenarian. Hankins was the oldest person in Mississippi at the time of her death at age 111.She was born in Itawamba County, Mississippi
Itawamba County, Mississippi
In 2000, there were 8,773 households out of which 33.20% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.30% were married couples living together, 9.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.90% were non-families. 23.40% of all households were made up of individuals and...
. to Henry Jackson Spencer and Samantha Fikes Spencer. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Curtis Hankins; her brothers, Bobby, Kip, Grady, Chester and Curtis Spencer; and a son who died in infancy.
Hankins had been a resident of Aberdeen, Mississippi
Aberdeen, Mississippi
Aberdeen is a city in Monroe County in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The population was 6,415 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Monroe County....
from 1942 until 2000. She worked at Aberdeen Hospital and at Dr. Murphree's Clinic, and then a homemaker
Homemaker
Homemaking is a mainly American term for the management of a home, otherwise known as housework, housekeeping or household management...
until she was 104. Afterwards, she moved to West Point, Mississippi
West Point, Mississippi
West Point is a city in Clay County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,145 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clay County and the principal city of the West Point Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Columbus-West Point Combined Statistical...
, where she spent the last seven years of her life.
Delphia Hankins died at the Dugan Memorial Home in West Point.
At the time of her death she was survived by two daughters, Olema Poss of West Point and Kathryn Crump of Aberdeen; a son, W.D. Hankins of Aberdeen; twenty-seven grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; sixteen great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.
Elizabeth Stefan
Elizabeth Stefan née Molnar (May 13, 1895 – April 9, 2008) was an American supercentenarian of Hungarian descent.Born in Hungary, Stefan emigrated
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States. The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants,...
to the United States in 1913. She is believed to be the oldest Hungarian ever. Stefan lived in a nursing home in Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of the city is 85,603, making Norwalk sixth in population in Connecticut, and third in Fairfield County...
, where she celebrated her 112th birthday in May 2007.
Stefan died aged 112 years and 332 days, just five weeks shy of her 113th birthday. At the time of her death, she was the seventh-oldest validated person in the world and the fifth-oldest validated person in the United States. She was survived by a daughter, grandchildren and a great-grandson.
George Francis
George Rene Francis (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008) was an American supercentenarian and the joint second-oldest living man in the world, together with Englishman Henry AllinghamHenry Allingham
Henry William Allingham was a British supercentenarian, First World War veteran and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world...
, 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
Antonio Pierro
Antonio "Tony" Pierro was, at age 110, recognized as the oldest living man in the U.S. and the world's oldest living WWI veteran . He was one of the last surviving veterans of World War I...
on Feb 8, 2007. Francis was from New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
but since 1949 lived in Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
, where a local newspaper published a poem that Francis enjoyed reciting to friends and the public throughout his life. 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.
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. Francis claimed to have met Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
and Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915...
and to have seen Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
George Herman Ruth, Jr. , best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935...
hit a home run. His wife died in 1964. At the time of his death, Francis was listed as one of the 20 oldest verified men ever.
Olivia Patricia Thomas
Olivia Patricia Thomas née Trevellyan (June 29, 1895 – November 16, 2009) was, at age 114, the world's third oldest verified living person, following the death of Gertrude BainesGertrude Baines
Gertrude Baines was an American supercentenarian, who became the oldest recognized living person according to Guinness World Records on January 2, 2009, until her own death on September 11, 2009, at age 115 years 158 days...
on September 11, 2009. Thomas was the second oldest American (and the oldest born in the United States, as Mary Josephine Ray
Mary Josephine Ray
Mary Josephine Ray was the world's second-oldest verified living person at the time of her death...
was born in Canada). She moved to Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
in 1946 and went on to become the oldest living person in the state of New York.
On October 25, 2009, Thomas became the oldest person born in Iowa, surpassing the 114 years, 117 lifespant of Emma Verona Johnston in 2004. On December 22, 2009, Neva Morris aged 114 years, 141 days surpassed Thomas as the oldest verified Iowan ever.
Thomas is listed as one of the 65 longest-lived people ever.
Dina Manfredini
Dina Manfredini née Guerri (born April 4, 1897) is an Italian-American supercentenarianSupercentenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
. Aged , she is the world's third oldest living person, behind American Besse Cooper
Besse Cooper
Besse Berry Cooper is an American supercentenarian. After the death of the Brazilian supercentenarian Maria Gomes Valentim on June 21, 2011, Cooper became the world's oldest living person...
and Japan's Chiyono Hasegawa
Chiyono Hasegawa
is a Japanese supercentenarian. Aged , she is the oldest verified person in Japan since the death of Kama Chinen on 2 May 2010, and the oldest person in Asia. She is currently the 2nd oldest verified living person in the world behind American Besse Cooper. On 22 August 2011, Hasegawa became the...
. She is the oldest living Italian-born person. On April 4, 2011, she became the third Italian in history to reach age 114 and since the death of Venere Pizzinato on August 2, 2011 has being the oldest living Italian born person. Manfredini is one of the 50 oldest people ever recorded.
Born in Italy in the small centre of Pievepelago
Pievepelago
Pievepelago is a comune in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 70 km southwest of Bologna and about 60 km southwest of Modena. It is a tourist resort in the Modenese Apennines, crossed by the Via Vandelli.- Notable people :* Palmiro Serafini , ski...
in Emilia-Romagna, she moved to Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small portion of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857...
in 1920 with her husband Riccardo Manfredini. The couple raised four children, three of whom are still living. She worked in an ammunition factory during World War II and was cleaning houses until she was 90, although she lied about her age so that people didn't think she was too old to work. Her husband died in 1965. After his death Dina lived alone until she moved into a retirement home when she was 110.
Manfredini has 7 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great grandchildren. At age 114, she is described as being in good health – although her hearing is bad – and can walk with the aid of a walker. She currently resides in Johnston, Iowa
Johnston, Iowa
-2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 17,278 in the city, with a population density of . There were 6,618 housing units, of which 6,369 were occupied....
at the Bishop Drumm Retirement Center