List of supercentenarians from the United States
This article includes lists of supercentenarians from the United States (people from the United States who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The Gerontology Research Group (GRG), an organization that tracks supercentenarians and validates longevity claims, has validated claims of over 700 American supercentenarians [1] and as of 5 December 2016, lists 8 verified living American supercentenarians, the oldest of whom is Adele Dunlap, aged 113 years, 359 days.[2] The oldest person ever from the United States was Sarah Knauss, who died on December 30, 1999 at age 119 years, 97 days.[3][4][5][6]
Living United States supercentenarians
Below is a list of supercentenarians living in the United States, from the oldest to youngest.
No. | Name | Sex | Birthdate | Age as of 5 December 2016 | Birthplace | Residence |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Adele Dunlap[2] | F | December 12, 1902 | 113 years, 359 days | New Jersey | New Jersey |
2 | Meta Dishman[2] | F | June 1, 1903 | 113 years, 187 days | Virginia | Virginia |
3 | Delphine Gibson[2] | F | August 17, 1903 | 113 years, 110 days | South Carolina | Pennsylvania |
4 | Ila Jones[2] | F | August 21, 1903 | 113 years, 106 days | Georgia | Georgia |
5 | Tameko Shijo[2] | F | January 1, 1904 | 112 years, 339 days | Japan | California |
6 | Vera Van Wagner[2] | F | May 24, 1904 | 112 years, 195 days | New York | New York |
7 | Lessie Brown[2] | F | September 22, 1904 | 112 years, 74 days | Georgia | Ohio |
8 | Corine Snow[2] | F | December 1, 1904 | 112 years, 4 days | Texas | Texas |
9 | Leta Nolen[7] | F | February 16, 1905 | 111 years, 293 days | Arkansas | Arkansas |
10 | Tressa Bartholomew[8] | F | March 30, 1905 | 111 years, 250 days | Iowa | Iowa |
11 | Katherine Bodenbender[9] | F | April 19, 1905 | 111 years, 230 days | Germany | Illinois |
12 | Chrystal Harper[10] | F | June 28, 1905 | 111 years, 160 days | Idaho | Idaho |
13 | Clara Anderson[11] | F | July 2, 1905 | 111 years, 156 days | Missouri | Alaska |
14 | Alelia Murphy[12] | F | July 6, 1905 | 111 years, 152 days | North Carolina | New York |
15 | Molly Schmidt[13] | F | July 22, 1905 | 111 years, 136 days | Canada | Washington |
16 | Agnes Fenton[14] | F | August 1, 1905 | 111 years, 126 days | Mississippi | New Jersey |
17 | Lena Dick[15] | F | August 5, 1905 | 111 years, 122 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
18 | Armida Sholar[16] | F | August 9, 1905 | 111 years, 118 days | South Carolina | North Carolina |
19 | Hester Ford[17] | F | August 15, 1905 | 111 years, 112 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
20 | Iris Westman[18] | F | August 28, 1905 | 111 years, 99 days | North Dakota | North Dakota |
21 | Juliana Koo[19] | F | September 26, 1905 | 111 years, 70 days | China | New York |
22 | Lucy Trecasse[20] | F | October 18, 1905 | 111 years, 48 days | (unknown) | Pennsylvania |
23 | Magie DeVane[21] | F | November 17, 1905 | 111 years, 18 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
24 | Antoinette Ploger[22] | F | November 21, 1905 | 111 years, 14 days | New York | New York |
25 | Isabel Castano Restrepo[23] | F | January 11, 1906 | 110 years, 329 days | Colombia | Florida |
26 | Melissa Traylor[24] | F | February 6, 1906 | 110 years, 303 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
27 | Flossie Dickey[25] | F | February 18, 1906 | 110 years, 291 days | Oregon | Washington |
28 | Marie Willan[26][27] | F | April 29, 1906 | 110 years, 220 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
29 | Lillian Howell Stubbs[28] | F | April 30, 1906 | 110 years, 219 days | North Carolina | Virginia |
30 | Clarence Matthews[29] | M | May 1, 1906 | 110 years, 218 days | California | California |
31 | Belle McCormick[30] | F | May 2, 1906 | 110 years, 217 days | Montana | California |
32 | Frances Bartels[31] | F | May 7, 1906 | 110 years, 212 days | Ohio | California |
33 | Richard Arvine Overton[32] | M | May 11, 1906 | 110 years, 208 days | Texas | Texas |
34 | Violet Greene[33] | F | June 4, 1906 | 110 years, 184 days | Ohio | Ohio |
35 | Doris Farrar[34] | F | June 6, 1906 | 110 years, 182 days | Maine | Maine |
36 | Laura Wright[35] | F | June 15, 1906 | 110 years, 173 days | South Carolina | South Carolina |
37 | Mazie Ford[36] | F | June 28, 1906 | 110 years, 160 days | Pennsylvania | Florida |
38 | Ernestine Garst[37][38] | F | July 16, 1906 | 110 years, 142 days | Kentucky | Kentucky |
39 | Mary Niceswanger[39] | F | August 6, 1906 | 110 years, 121 days | Ohio | Ohio |
40 | Louise Schaaf[40] | F | October 16, 1906 | 110 years, 50 days | Germany | Illinois |
41 | George Feldman[41] | M | December 2, 1906 | 110 years, 3 days | New York | New York |
100 oldest American people ever
Below is a list of the longest lived American supercentenarians according to the GRG.[42]
Deceased
Living
†^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 5 December 2016
Rank | Name | Sex | Day of Birth | Day of death | Age [†] | Birthplace | Place of death or residence |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sarah Knauss[1] | F | September 24, 1880 | December 30, 1999 | 119 years, 97 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
2 | Lucy Hannah[1] | F | July 16, 1875 | March 21, 1993 | 117 years, 248 days | Alabama | Michigan |
3 | Susannah Mushatt Jones[2] | F | July 6, 1899 | May 12, 2016 | 116 years, 311 days | Alabama | New York |
4 | Gertrude Weaver[2] | F | July 4, 1898 | April 6, 2015 | 116 years, 276 days | Arkansas | Arkansas |
5 | Elizabeth Bolden[1] | F | August 15, 1890 | December 11, 2006 | 116 years, 118 days | Tennessee | Tennessee |
6 | Besse Cooper[43] | F | August 26, 1896 | December 4, 2012 | 116 years, 100 days | Tennessee | Georgia |
7 | Jeralean Talley[2] | F | May 23, 1899 | June 17, 2015 | 116 years, 25 days | Georgia | Michigan |
8 | Maggie Barnes[1] | F | March 6, 1882 | January 19, 1998 | 115 years, 319 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
9 | Dina Manfredini[43] | F | April 4, 1897 | December 17, 2012 | 115 years, 257 days | Italy | Iowa |
10 | Christian Mortensen[1] | M | August 16, 1882 | April 25, 1998 | 115 years, 252 days | Denmark | California |
11 | Edna Parker[44] | F | April 20, 1893 | November 26, 2008 | 115 years, 220 days | Indiana | Indiana |
12 | Margaret Skeete[1] | F | October 27, 1878 | May 7, 1994 | 115 years, 192 days | Texas | Virginia |
13 | Bernice Madigan | F | July 24, 1899 | January 3, 2015 | 115 years, 163 days | Massachusetts | Massachusetts |
14 | Gertrude Baines[45] | F | April 6, 1894 | September 11, 2009 | 115 years, 158 days | Georgia | California |
15 | Bettie Wilson[1] | F | September 13, 1890 | February 13, 2006 | 115 years, 153 days | Mississippi | Mississippi |
16 | Susie Gibson[1] | F | October 31, 1890 | February 16, 2006 | 115 years, 108 days | Mississippi | Alabama |
17 | Augusta Holtz[2] | F | August 3, 1871 | October 21, 1986 | 115 years, 79 days | Prussia[lower-alpha 1] | Missouri |
18 | Maude Farris-Luse[1] | F | January 21, 1887 | March 18, 2002 | 115 years, 56 days | Michigan | Michigan |
19 | Antonia Gerena Rivera[2] | F | May 19, 1900 | June 2, 2015 | 115 years, 14 days | Puerto Rico | Florida |
20 | Mary Bidwell[1] | F | May 19, 1881 | April 25, 1996 | 114 years, 342 days | Connecticut | Connecticut |
21 | Mary Josephine Ray[46] | F | May 17, 1895 | March 7, 2010 | 114 years, 294 days | Canada | New Hampshire |
22 | Goldie Steinberg[2] | F | October 30, 1900 | August 16, 2015 | 114 years, 290 days | Moldova[lower-alpha 2] | New York |
23 | Neva Morris[46] | F | August 3, 1895 | April 6, 2010 | 114 years, 246 days | Iowa | Iowa |
24 | Blanche Cobb | F | September 8, 1900 | May 1, 2015 | 114 years, 235 days | Georgia | Florida |
25 | Mathew Beard[1] | M | July 9, 1870 | February 16, 1985 | 114 years, 222 days | Virginia | Florida |
26 | Carrie Lazenby[1] | F | February 9, 1882 | September 14, 1996 | 114 years, 218 days | Georgia | Illinois |
27 | Myrtle Dorsey[1] | F | November 22, 1885 | June 25, 2000 | 114 years, 216 days | Ohio | Ohio |
28 | Walter Breuning[47] | M | September 21, 1896 | April 14, 2011 | 114 years, 205 days | Minnesota | Montana |
29 | Eunice Sanborn[47] | F | July 20, 1896 | January 31, 2011 | 114 years, 195 days | Louisiana | Texas |
30 | Grace Clawson[1] | F | November 15, 1887 | May 28, 2002 | 114 years, 194 days | United Kingdom | New York |
31 | Wilhelmina Kott[1] | F | March 7, 1880 | September 6, 1994 | 114 years, 183 days | Illinois | Illinois |
Adelina Domingues[1] | F | February 19, 1888 | August 21, 2002 | 114 years, 183 days | Cape Verde[lower-alpha 3] | California | |
33 | Charlotte Benkner[1] | F | November 26, 1889 | May 14, 2004 | 114 years, 180 days | Germany | Ohio |
34 | Ettie Mae Greene[1] | F | September 8, 1877 | February 26, 1992 | 114 years, 171 days | West Virginia | West Virginia |
35 | Dominga Velasco[2] | F | May 12, 1901 | October 11, 2015 | 114 years, 152 days | Mexico | California |
36 | Irene Frank[1] | F | October 1, 1881 | February 28, 1996 | 114 years, 150 days | Texas | Missouri |
37 | Olivia Patricia Thomas[45] | F | June 29, 1895 | November 16, 2009 | 114 years, 140 days | Iowa | New York |
38 | Anna Henderson[2] | F | March 5, 1900 | July 1, 2014 | 114 years, 118 days | Georgia | Pennsylvania |
39 | Emma Verona Johnston[1] | F | August 6, 1890 | December 1, 2004 | 114 years, 117 days | Iowa | Ohio |
Mamie Rearden | F | September 7, 1898 | January 2, 2013 | 114 years, 117 days | South Carolina | Georgia | |
41 | Bettie Chatmon[1] | F | April 30, 1884 | August 16, 1998 | 114 years, 108 days | Louisiana | Texas |
42 | Odie Matthews[1] | F | December 28, 1878 | April 14, 1993 | 114 years, 107 days | Texas | Arizona |
43 | Florence Knapp[1] | F | October 10, 1873 | January 11, 1988 | 114 years, 93 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
Elena Slough[1] | F | July 4, 1889 | October 5, 2003 | 114 years, 93 days | Pennsylvania | New Jersey | |
45 | Mary Anna Boone[1] | F | February 10, 1887 | May 13, 2001 | 114 years, 92 days | Kentucky | Kentucky |
46 | Delma Kollar[43] | F | October 31, 1897 | January 24, 2012 | 114 years, 85 days | Kansas | Oregon |
47 | Maggie Renfro[46] | F | November 14, 1895 | January 22, 2010 | 114 years, 69 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
48 | Emma Tillman[1] | F | November 22, 1892 | January 28, 2007 | 114 years, 67 days | North Carolina | Connecticut |
Anna Stoehr[2] | F | October 15, 1900 | December 21, 2014 | 114 years, 67 days | Iowa | Minnesota | |
50 | Leila Denmark[43] | F | February 1, 1898 | April 1, 2012 | 114 years, 60 days | Georgia | Georgia |
51 | Naomi Conner[2] | F | August 30, 1899 | October 18, 2013 | 114 years, 49 days | Texas [48] | Texas |
Ora Holland[2] | F | December 24, 1900 | February 11, 2015 | 114 years, 49 days | Missouri | Oklahoma | |
53 | Grace Thaxton[1] | F | June 18, 1891 | July 6, 2005 | 114 years, 18 days | New York | Kentucky |
54 | Soledad Mexia[2] | F | August 13, 1899 | August 30, 2013 | 114 years, 17 days | Mexico | California |
55 | Minnie Ward[1] | F | November 19, 1885 | December 2, 1999 | 114 years, 13 days | Tennessee | Massachusetts |
56 | Arbella Ewing[44] | F | March 13, 1894 | March 22, 2008 | 114 years, 9 days | Texas | Texas |
57 | Catherine Hagel[44] | F | November 28, 1894 | December 6, 2008 | 114 years, 8 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
58 | Emma Otis[2] | F | October 22, 1901 | October 25, 2015 | 114 years, 3 days | Washington | Washington |
59 | Adele Dunlap[2] | F | December 12, 1902 | Living | 113 years, 359 days | New Jersey | Living in New Jersey |
60 | Fred Hale[1] | M | December 1, 1890 | November 19, 2004 | 113 years, 354 days | Maine | New York |
61 | Miriam Carpelan[49] | F | July 8, 1882 | June 22, 1996 | 113 years, 350 days | United Kingdom | California |
Elsie Thompson[2] | F | April 5, 1899 | March 21, 2013 | 113 years, 350 days | Pennsylvania | Florida | |
63 | Bertha Fry[50] | F | December 1, 1893 | November 14, 2007 | 113 years, 348 days | Indiana | Indiana |
64 | Mae Harrington[1] | F | January 20, 1889 | December 29, 2002 | 113 years, 343 days | New York | New York |
65 | Daisey Bailey[46] | F | March 30, 1896 | March 7, 2010 | 113 years, 342 days | Tennessee | Michigan |
66 | Agatha Mitchell[1] | F | March 26, 1887 | February 25, 2001 | 113 years, 336 days | Virginia | Virginia |
67 | Goldie Michelson | F | August 8, 1902 | July 8, 2016 | 113 years, 335 days | Russia[lower-alpha 4] | Massachusetts |
68 | Clara Huhn[1] | F | January 28, 1887 | December 20, 2000 | 113 years, 327 days | Nebraska | California |
69 | Corinne Dixon Taylor[1] | F | April 2, 1893 | February 14, 2007 | 113 years, 318 days | District of Columbia | District of Columbia |
70 | Mary Christian[1] | F | June 12, 1889 | April 20, 2003 | 113 years, 312 days | Massachusetts | California |
71 | Ruth Newman[2] | F | September 23, 1901 | July 29, 2015 | 113 years, 309 days | California | California |
72 | Evelyn Kozak[2] | F | August 14, 1899 | June 11, 2013 | 113 years, 301 days | New York | New York |
73 | Louisiana Hines[2] | F | April 13, 1899 | February 1, 2013 | 113 years, 294 days | Alabama | Michigan |
74 | Mississippi Winn[47] | F | March 31, 1897 | January 14, 2011 | 113 years, 289 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
75 | Fannie Thomas[1] | F | April 14, 1867 | January 22, 1981 | 113 years, 283 days | Illinois | California |
76 | Opal Thompson[2] | F | January 13, 1901 | October 20, 2014 | 113 years, 280 days | Oklahoma | California |
77 | Johnson Parks[1] | M | October 15, 1884 | July 17, 1998 | 113 years, 275 days | Georgia | Florida |
78 | Mary Parr[1] | F | January 29, 1889 | October 29, 2002 | 113 years, 273 days | Indiana | Florida |
79 | Beatrice Farve[45] | F | April 30, 1895 | January 19, 2009 | 113 years, 264 days | Georgia | Georgia |
80 | Amalia Barone[1] | F | October 6, 1884 | June 26, 1998 | 113 years, 263 days | Italy | Connecticut |
81 | Zora Wriggle[1] | F | February 24, 1880 | November 7, 1993 | 113 years, 256 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
82 | John Ingram McMorran[1] | M | June 19, 1889 | February 24, 2003 | 113 years, 250 days | Michigan | Florida |
83 | Mary McKinney[1] | F | May 30, 1873 | February 2, 1987 | 113 years, 248 days | California | California |
84 | Ella Schuler[47] | F | September 5, 1897 | May 7, 2011 | 113 years, 244 days | Nebraska | Kansas |
85 | Gladys Swetland[1] | F | April 18, 1892 | December 14, 2005 | 113 years, 240 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
86 | Mary Randall[1] | F | April 1, 1887 | November 12, 2000 | 113 years, 225 days | Arkansas | Texas |
87 | Delina Filkins[1] | F | May 4, 1815 | December 4, 1928 | 113 years, 214 days | New York | New York |
88 | Mary Kelly[51] | F | June 7, 1851 | December 30, 1964 | 113 years, 206 days | Michigan | California |
89 | Nelle Hunt[1] | F | July 28, 1887 | February 8, 2001 | 113 years, 195 days | Missouri | Missouri |
Helen Stetter[50] | F | November 18, 1893 | June 1, 2007 | 113 years, 195 days | Nebraska | Nebraska | |
91 | Carrie Hardrick[1] | F | November 6, 1887 | May 14, 2001 | 113 years, 189 days | Texas | Texas |
92 | Meta Dishman[2] | F | June 1, 1903 | Living | 113 years, 187 days | Virginia | Living in Virginia |
93 | Mamie Eva Keith[1] | F | March 22, 1873 | September 20, 1986 | 113 years, 182 days | Illinois | Illinois |
94 | Beryl Kapaun[43] | F | June 4, 1899 | November 7, 2012 | 113 years, 156 days | South Dakota | South Dakota |
95 | Emma Wilson[1] | F | May 12, 1870 | October 13, 1983 | 113 years, 154 days | Missouri | Missouri |
96 | Jane Markle[1] | F | October 10, 1883 | March 12, 1997 | 113 years, 153 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
Helen Wheat[2] | F | September 16, 1902 | February 16, 2016 | 113 years, 153 days | Pennsylvania | Maryland | |
98 | Frances Street[46] | F | March 28, 1897 | August 24, 2010 | 113 years, 149 days | South Carolina | North Carolina |
99 | Kathleen Snavely | F | February 16, 1902 | July 6, 2015 | 113 years, 140 days | Ireland | New York |
100 | Frederick Frazier[1] | M | January 27, 1880 | June 14, 1993 | 113 years, 138 days | Alabama | Alabama |
American emigrant supercentenarians over 113-years-old
Below is a list of people aged at least 113 who were born in the United States and live or have died in another country.
Rank | Name | Sex | Birth date | Death date | Age [†] | State of birth | Country of death |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Marie Josephine Gaudette[2] | F | March 25, 1902 | Living | 114 years, 255 days | New Hampshire | Living in Italy |
2 | Merle Barwis[2] | F | December 23, 1900 | November 22, 2014 | 113 years, 334 days | Iowa | Canada |
3 | Cora Hansen[43] | F | March 25, 1899 | April 18, 2012 | 113 years, 24 days | Minnesota | Canada |
Chronological list of the oldest living person in the United States since 1974
From | To | Name | Sex | Reported age(s) when oldest |
Reported lifespan | State of death |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unidentified | May 18, 1974 | Clarida Roy[1] | F | ? – 110 | October 19, 1863 – May 18, 1974 110 years, 211 days |
Maine |
May 18, 1974 | August 5, 1976 (2 years, 80 days) |
Mary Bittlebrun[1][52] | F | 110 – 112 | March 19, 1864 – August 6, 1976 112 years, 140 days |
Arkansas |
August 6, 1976 | December 2, 1977 (1 year, 118 days) |
Sophia DeMuth[1][53] | F | 110 – 111 | June 30, 1866 – December 2, 1977 111 years, 155 days |
Nebraska |
December 2, 1977 | January 22, 1981 (3 years, 51 days) |
Fannie Thomas[1][54] | F | 110 – 113 | April 14, 1867 – January 22, 1981 113 years, 283 days |
California |
January 22, 1981 | November 13, 1982 (1 year, 295 days) |
Nellie Spencer[1] | F | 111 – 113 | August 24, 1869 – November 13, 1982 113 years, 81 days |
New Jersey |
November 13, 1982 | October 13, 1983 (334 days) |
Emma Wilson[1] | F | 112 – 113 | May 12, 1870 – October 13, 1983 113 years, 154 days |
Missouri |
October 13, 1983 | February 16, 1985 (1 year, 126 days) |
Mathew Beard[1] | M | 113 – 114 | July 9, 1870 – February 16, 1985 114 years, 222 days |
Florida |
February 16, 1985 | October 21, 1986 (1 year, 247 days) |
Augusta Holtz[1] | F | 113 – 115 | August 3, 1871 – October 21, 1986 115 years, 79 days |
Missouri |
October 21, 1986 | February 2, 1987 (104 days) |
Mary McKinney[1] | F | 113 | May 30, 1873 – February 2, 1987 113 years, 248 days |
California |
February 2, 1987 | January 11, 1988 (343 days) |
Florence Knapp[1] | F | 113 – 114 | October 10, 1873 – January 11, 1988 114 years, 93 days |
Pennsylvania |
January 11, 1988 | March 21, 1993 (5 years, 69 days) |
Lucy Hannah[55] | F | 112 – 117 | July 16, 1875 – March 21, 1993 117 years, 248 days |
Michigan |
March 21, 1993 | May 7, 1994 (1 year, 47 days) |
Margaret Skeete[1] | F | 114 – 115 | October 27, 1878 – May 7, 1994 115 years, 192 days |
Virginia |
May 7, 1994 | September 6, 1994 (122 days) |
Wilhelmina Kott[56] | F | 114 | March 7, 1880 – September 6, 1994 114 years, 183 days |
Illinois |
September 6, 1994 | December 30, 1999 (5 years, 115 days) |
Sarah Knauss[1] | F | 113 – 119 | September 24, 1880 – December 30, 1999 119 years, 97 days |
Pennsylvania |
December 30, 1999 | June 25, 2000 (178 days) |
Myrtle Dorsey[1] | F | 114 | November 22, 1885 – June 25, 2000 114 years, 216 days |
Ohio |
June 25, 2000 | March 18, 2002 (1 year, 266 days) |
Maude Farris-Luse[1] | F | 113 – 115 | January 21, 1887 – March 18, 2002 115 years, 56 days |
Michigan |
March 18, 2002 | May 28, 2002 (71 days) |
Grace Clawson[1] | F | 114 | November 15, 1887 – May 28, 2002 114 years, 194 days |
Florida |
May 28, 2002 | August 21, 2002 (85 days) |
Adelina Domingues[1] | F | 114 | February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002 114 years, 183 days |
California |
August 21, 2002 | December 29, 2002 (130 days) |
Mae Harrington[1] | F | 113 | January 20, 1889 – December 29, 2002 113 years, 343 days |
New York |
December 29, 2002 | April 20, 2003 (112 days) |
Mary Christian[57] | F | 113 | June 12, 1889 – April 20, 2003 113 years, 312 days |
California |
April 20, 2003 | October 5, 2003 (168 days) |
Elena Slough[58] | F | 113 – 114 | July 4, 1889 – October 5, 2003 114 years, 93 days |
New Jersey |
October 5, 2003 | May 14, 2004 (222 days) |
Charlotte Benkner[1] | F | 113 – 114 | November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004 114 years, 180 days |
Ohio |
May 14, 2004 | December 1, 2004 (201 days) |
Emma Verona Johnston[1] | F | 113 – 114 | August 6, 1890 – December 1, 2004 114 years, 117 days |
Ohio |
December 1, 2004 | December 11, 2006 (2 years, 10 days) |
Elizabeth Bolden[1] | F | 114 – 116 | August 15, 1890 – December 11, 2006 116 years, 118 days |
Tennessee |
December 11, 2006 | January 28, 2007 (48 days) |
Emma Tillman[1] | F | 114 | November 22, 1892 – January 28, 2007 114 years, 67 days |
Connecticut |
January 28, 2007 | February 14, 2007 (17 days) |
Corinne Dixon Taylor[1][59] | F | 113 | April 2, 1893 – February 14, 2007 113 years, 318 days |
District of Columbia |
February 14, 2007 | November 26, 2008 (1 year, 286 days) |
Edna Parker[1] | F | 113 – 115 | April 20, 1893 – November 26, 2008 115 years, 220 days |
Indiana |
November 26, 2008 | September 11, 2009 (289 days) |
Gertrude Baines[1] | F | 114 – 115 | April 6, 1894 – September 11, 2009 115 years, 158 days |
California |
September 11, 2009 | March 7, 2010 (177 days) |
Mary Josephine Ray[60] | F | 114 | May 17, 1895 – March 7, 2010 114 years, 294 days |
New Hampshire |
March 7, 2010 | April 6, 2010 (30 days) |
Neva Morris[60][61] | F | 114 | August 3, 1895 – April 6, 2010 114 years, 246 days |
Iowa |
April 6, 2010 | January 31, 2011 (300 days) |
Eunice Sanborn[61] | F | 113 – 114 | July 20, 1896 – January 31, 2011 114 years, 195 days |
Texas |
January 31, 2011 | December 4, 2012 (1 year, 308 days) |
Besse Cooper[62] | F | 114 – 116 | August 26, 1896 – December 4, 2012 116 years, 100 days |
Georgia |
December 4, 2012 | December 17, 2012 (13 days) |
Dina Manfredini[63][64] | F | 115 | April 4, 1897 – December 17, 2012 115 years, 257 days |
Iowa |
December 17, 2012 | April 6, 2015 (2 years, 110 days) |
Gertrude Weaver[64] | F | 114 – 116 | July 4, 1898 – April 6, 2015 116 years, 276 days |
Arkansas |
April 6, 2015 | June 17, 2015 (72 days) |
Jeralean Talley[65] | F | 115 – 116 | May 23, 1899 – June 17, 2015 116 years, 25 days |
Michigan |
June 17, 2015 | May 12, 2016 (330 days) |
Susannah Mushatt Jones[66] | F | 115 – 116 | July 6, 1899 – May 12, 2016 116 years, 311 days |
New York |
May 12, 2016 | July 8, 2016 (57 days) |
Goldie Michelson[67] | F | 113 | August 8, 1902 – July 8, 2016 113 years, 335 days |
Massachusetts |
July 8, 2016 | Present (150 days) |
Adele Dunlap[68] | F | 113* | born December 12, 1902 aged 113 years, 359 days |
Living in New Jersey |
People
Ann Pouder
Ann Pouder née Ann Alexander Poudar (London, United Kingdom April 8, 1807 – Baltimore, Maryland, United States July 10, 1917) was one of the first modernly recognized supercentenarians. Her age at death was 110 years, 93 days.[69]
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.[70] In her last few months, she was bedridden, blind, and almost deaf, but her mind remained sharp.[71]
Florence Knapp
Florence Knapp (October 10, 1873 – January 11, 1988) was, for the last two weeks of her life, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest person in the world.[72]
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, aged 114 years 93 days, 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.
Ettie Mae Greene
Ettie Mae Greene née Thomas (September 8, 1877 – February 26, 1992) was an American supercentenarian who was recognized by Guinness World Records as the 'oldest living American' in 1991 (later, the SSA study would replace her with Lucy Hannah, who was apparently older). She was born in Wayside, West Virginia, and worked as a seamstress and a farmer.[73] Greene died of a cold at the Springfield Comprehensive Care Center in Springfield, West Virginia. At the time of her death at the age of 114 years, 171 days, she had nine children (four of whom she had outlived), 21 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren and 37 great-great-grandchildren.[73] She still holds the record for being the oldest person in the state of West Virginia.
Wilhelmina Kott
Wilhelmina Kott née Geringer (March 7, 1880 – September 6, 1994)[74] was an American supercentenarian recognized by Guinness World Records as the 'oldest living American' in its 1995 edition,[56] following the death of Margaret Skeete. She was born in Peru, Illinois, as one of 16 children to George and Sophia Geringer. She moved to Chicago in 1881, where she lived almost her entire life. She married Charles Kott in 1899.[56] She died on September 6, 1994, aged 114 years 183 days.
Mary Bidwell
Mary Electa Bidwell née Nobel (May 19, 1881– April 25, 1996)[75] was an American supercentenarian. She died at age 114 years, 342 days on April 25, 1996. She is the oldest person ever to die in Connecticut.[76][77][78]
Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel.[77] 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.[76]
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.[75][78]
Maggie Barnes
Maggie Pauline Barnes née Hinnant (March 6, 1882 – January 19, 1998)[79] was an American supercentenarian. She was a resident of Johnston County, North Carolina. Barnes died from complications following a minor foot infection.[80] 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.[80]
Some dispute exists as to her date of birth. Though the 1882 date is written in the family's bible, the 1900 US Census lists her as having been born in 1881, and her marriage license says she was born in 1880.[80] Authenticating to the latest of those dates, Barnes was 115 years, 319 days old when she died.
Barnes is the oldest person ever in U.S. state of North Carolina on record.
Clara Huhn
Clara Huhn née Herling (January 28, 1887 – December 20, 2000)[81] was an American homemaker and supercentenarian. Born in a home near Clarkson, Nebraska, she lived near Schuyler for most of her life. She remained active, healthy and independent until the last few months of her life, and even answered an interview 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.[82]
Mae Harrington
Mae Harrington née Maxwell (January 20, 1889 – December 29, 2002) was an American supercentenarian who became the world's oldest living person upon the death of Adelina Domingues. Harrington was also the oldest living American and the oldest person ever from the state of New York, breaking the record held since the 1920s by then world's oldest person Delina Filkins, also 113, but her own record was subsequently broken on May 28, 2005 by Grace Thaxton, 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.[83]
After Harrington's death aged 113 years 343 days, Mary Christian became the oldest living person in the United States, and Yukichi Chuganji became the oldest living person.
Mary Christian
Mary Dorothy Christian (née Perry, June 12, 1889 – April 20, 2003) 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 parents whose name had been anglicized from Perreira (she was of Portuguese descent). She spent much of her life in California, where she died in a San Pablo, California nursing home at 113 years and 312 days.[57][84]
Elena Slough
Elena Proctor Slough née Rodenbaugh (July 4, 1889 – October 5, 2003)[58] was the oldest recognized person in the United States from the death of Mary Christian on April 20, 2003, until Slough's own death, aged 114 years 93 days, six months later. After her death, the oldest recognized person in the United States was Charlotte Benkner.[58]
Born in Horsham, Pennsylvania, she married twice and had children by each marriage. Her 90-year-old daughter died three days before her, at the same Cape May, New Jersey nursing home. Some sources date her birth to 1888, but the oldest records state that she was born in 1889.[85]
Charlotte Benkner
Charlotte Benkner (née Enterlein; November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004)[86][87][88][89] 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.[86] The subsequent recognition of María Capovilla of Ecuador in December 2005 moved Benkner down to third place at the time of her death,[87][88] but she is still the oldest verified German-born person ever.
Benkner was born in Leipzig, Germany, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1896. She grew up in Peekskill, New York, where her family ran the Albert Hotel, and as a young woman once met then President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt.[89][90] On her 1908 marriage to Karl Benkner, she moved west, living in Pennsylvania and Ohio before retiring to Arizona. Already a supercentenarian and the oldest person in Arizona, Benkner returned to Ohio to live in North Lima.[89] She became the oldest recognized person in the United States when 114-year-old Elena Slough died in October 2003.[58] She lived with her sister Tillie O'Hare (the youngest of the siblings), whom she once cared for when their parents were running the hotel, until Tillie (born February 15, 1904) died, just three weeks shy of becoming a centenarian, on January 25, 2004.[90] Benkner survived her sister by only four months, dying at age 114 years 180 days after she was briefly hospitalized in Youngstown, Ohio, and was buried in Peekskill.[86][87]
Emma Verona Johnston
Emma Verona Johnston (née Calhoun) (August 6, 1890 – December 1, 2004) was an American supercentenarian recognized as the "oldest living American" from May 2004 until her death at age 114 years, 117 days. Johnston was born in Indianola, Iowa to a large family.[91] She was the oldest living graduate of Drake University, where she was a member of the Class of 1912.[92]
At age 98, she moved from Iowa to Ohio in order to live with her daughter and son-in-law. She continued to be in good health even when she attained supercentenarian status, still being able to walk up steps, she was also alert and able to engage in conversations.[2]
Charlotte Benkner's death on May 14, 2004 left Johnston as the oldest documented person in the United States, and the death of Puerto Rican Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan on May 29, 2004 left her third-oldest recognized person in the world behind Ecuadorian María Capovilla and Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper of the Netherlands. She died in Worthington, Ohio on December 1, 2004.[91]
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 seventh-oldest documented person in the world at the time of her death. She also became New York state's all-time recordholder on May 28, 2005, aged 113 years 344 days, breaking the record set by Mae Harrington in December 2002.[93] Thaxton died several weeks later on July 6, 2005, aged 114 years 18 days.
Thaxton almost lived to see her son Robert (1915–2011) turn 90 on July 12, 2005. Thaxton's mother (1860–1969) lived to 109.[94]
Bettie Wilson
Bettie Antry Wilson née Rutherford (September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006)[95] was thought to be the oldest verified living person in the United States upon the death of 114-year-old Emma Verona Johnston on December 1, 2004. Until the subsequent verification of Elizabeth Bolden. Both were born in the rural South—where they lived less than 100 miles apart.
Born of freed slaves, Solomon and Delia Rutherford, she is the oldest resident of the state of Mississippi ever recorded (the previous record was 113 years, 12 days set in 1994). In late April 2005, Wilson moved into a new home funded by donations.
Wilson celebrated her 115th birthday in September 2005, at which time she ranked as the third-oldest living person in the world.
Wilson died at her New Albany home on February 13, 2006, aged 115 years, 153 days. She was survived by her son, five grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, 95 great-great-grandchildren and 38 great-great-great grandchildren.[95]
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 Moses Hardy), for one month until his own death, aged 111 years, 185 days.
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.[96][97]
Arbella Ewing
Arbella Ewing (née Perkins) (March 13, 1894 – March 22, 2008)[98][99] was, at the time of her death at age 114, the third-oldest living person in the world behind Edna Parker of United States and Maria de Jesus of Portugal, the second-oldest person in the United States and the oldest living African American.[100]
Ewing, the fourth of 12 children, grew up in Streetman, Texas, and married Frank Ewing in 1915, after which she moved to South Dallas. Her former house is still located in South Dallas today. She had a sister named Annie, who was born in 1904 and was 103 at the time of her death. When she was an adult, she worked in a local bikeshop in Streetman. Her great-grandparents were slaves in Mississippi. After marrying Frank Ewing, they had a daughter, named Claudia, who died in 1970. The Ewing family stated she was a gem in the family according to The Dallas Morning News. She lived in her own home in Dallas until the age of 113, after breaking her hip at her birthday party, she was moved into a personal care home, where she eventually died nine days after having reached the age of 114. The people close to her attributed her longevity to positive thinking.[100][101][102]
George Francis
George Rene Francis (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008)[103][104][105] was an American supercentenarian and the joint second-oldest living man in the world, together with Englishman Henry Allingham, until Francis's death aged 112 years, 204 days. He was also the oldest living man in the United States, following the death of Antonio Pierro on February 8, 2007. Francis was from New Orleans, Louisiana, but since 1949 lived in Sacramento, California, where a local newspaper published a poem that Francis enjoyed reciting to friends and the public throughout his life.[106] 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.[107]
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.[103] 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.
Shelby Harris
Shelby Harris (March 31, 1901 – July 25, 2012),[108] an African American, was oldest verified man in the United States (since the death of Walter Breuning on April 14, 2011), the third-oldest man in the world and Illinois's oldest living person at the time of his death.[108][109][110]
A native of Ayrshire, Indiana, Harris worked in coal mines and a foundry. At 41 he joined the Army for World War II, but a broken ankle ended his training. A deacon of his church until he was 102, Harris entered a Rock Island nursing home at 105. At his death he was a great-great-great-grandfather, his youngest grandson 57 years old.[111] Harris died on July 25, 2012, aged 111 years, 116 days.[108]
Notes
- ↑ Holtz was born in the Province of Posen, which was a part of the German Empire at the time of her birth. Today, this area is a part of Poland.
- ↑ Steinberg was born in Kishinev, which had then been a part of the Russian Empire; it is now located in Moldova
- ↑ Domingues was born in Cape Verde, which was at that time a Portuguese colony. Now it is an independent country.
- ↑ Michelson was born in the then Russian Empire, today Russia
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