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List of American supercentenarians

August 18, 2023

American supercentenarians are citizens or residents of the United States who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 782 American supercentenarians.[1] As of August 18, 2023, it lists the oldest living American-born person as Spanish emigrant Maria Branyas (born in San Francisco, California, on March 4, 1907), aged 116 years, 167 days. The oldest American resident is listed as Edie Ceccarelli (born in Willits, California, on February 5, 1908), aged 115 years, 194 days.[2] The longest-lived person ever from the United States is Sarah Knauss, of Hollywood, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, who died on December 30, 1999, aged 119 years and 97 days.[3][4]

100 oldest known Americans

Below is a list of the 100 longest lived American supercentenarians according to the GRG and reliable sourcing.[1][5]

  Deceased   Living

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age Birthplace Place of death
or residence
01 Sarah Knauss[1]
F
 September 24, 1880 December 30, 1999 119 years, 97 days Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
02 Delphia Welford[6]
F
 September 9, 1875 November 14, 1992 117 years, 66 days Mississippi Tennessee
03 Susannah Mushatt Jones[5]
F
 July 6, 1899 May 12, 2016 116 years, 311 days Alabama New York
04 Gertrude Weaver[5]
F
 July 4, 1898 April 6, 2015 116 years, 276 days Arkansas Arkansas
05 Maria Branyas[2]
F
 March 4, 1907 Living 116 years, 167 days California Spain
06 Elizabeth Bolden[1]
F
 August 15, 1890 December 11, 2006 116 years, 118 days Tennessee Tennessee
07 Besse Cooper[5]
F
 August 26, 1896 December 4, 2012 116 years, 100 days Tennessee Georgia
08 Jeralean Talley[5]
F
 May 23, 1899 June 17, 2015 116 years, 25 days Georgia Michigan
09 Maggie Barnes[1][a]
F
 March 6, 1882 January 19, 1998 115 years, 319 days North Carolina North Carolina
10 Dina Manfredini[5]
F
 April 4, 1897 December 17, 2012 115 years, 257 days Italy Iowa
11 Christian Mortensen[1]
M
 August 16, 1882 April 25, 1998 115 years, 252 days Denmark California
12 Hester Ford[5]
F
 August 15, 1905 April 17, 2021[7] 115 years, 245 days South Carolina North Carolina
13 Edna Parker[5]
F
 April 20, 1893 November 26, 2008 115 years, 220 days Indiana Indiana
14 Edie Ceccarelli[2]
F
 February 5, 1908 Living 115 years, 194 days California California
15 Margaret Skeete[1]
F
 October 27, 1878 May 7, 1994 115 years, 192 days Texas Virginia
16 Bernice Madigan[5]
F
 July 24, 1899 January 3, 2015 115 years, 163 days Massachusetts Massachusetts
17 Gertrude Baines[5]
F
 April 6, 1894 September 11, 2009 115 years, 158 days Georgia California
18 Bettie Wilson[1]
F
 September 13, 1890 February 13, 2006 115 years, 153 days Mississippi Mississippi
19 Iris Westman[5]
F
 August 28, 1905 January 3, 2021[8] 115 years, 128 days North Dakota North Dakota
20 Marie-Josephine Gaudette[5]
F
 March 25, 1902 July 13, 2017 115 years, 110 days New Hampshire Italy
21 Susie Gibson[1]
F
 October 31, 1890 February 16, 2006 115 years, 108 days Mississippi Alabama
Thelma Sutcliffe[5]
F
 October 1, 1906 January 17, 2022[9] Nebraska Nebraska
23 Augusta Holtz[1]
F
 August 3, 1871 October 21, 1986 115 years, 79 days Prussia[b] Missouri
24 Bessie Hendricks[10]
F
 November 7, 1907 January 3, 2023[11] 115 years, 57 days Iowa Iowa
25 Maude Farris-Luse[1]
F
 January 21, 1887 March 18, 2002 115 years, 56 days Michigan Michigan
26 Antonia Gerena Rivera[5]
F
 May 19, 1900 June 2, 2015 115 years, 14 days Puerto Rico[c] Florida
27 Mary Bidwell[13]
F
 May 9, 1881 April 25, 1996 114 years, 352 days Connecticut Connecticut
28 Hazel Plummer[10]
F
 June 19, 1908 May 25, 2023[14] 114 years, 340 days Massachusetts Massachusetts
29 Ophelia Burks[6]
F
 October 25, 1903 September 27, 2018 114 years, 337 days Louisiana Louisiana
30 Mary Josephine Ray[5]
F
 May 17, 1895 March 7, 2010 114 years, 294 days Canada New Hampshire
31 Goldie Steinberg[5]
F
 October 30, 1900 August 16, 2015 114 years, 290 days Moldova[d] New York
32 Delphine Gibson[5]
F
 August 17, 1903 May 9, 2018 114 years, 265 days South Carolina Pennsylvania
33 Neva Morris[5]
F
 August 3, 1895 April 6, 2010 114 years, 246 days Iowa Iowa
34 Blanche Cobb[5]
F
 September 8, 1900 May 1, 2015 114 years, 235 days Georgia Florida
35 Mila Mangold[5]
F
 November 14, 1907 July 2, 2022[15] 114 years, 230 days Nebraska California
36 Carrie Lazenby[1]
F
 February 9, 1882 September 14, 1996 114 years, 218 days Georgia Illinois
37 Myrtle Dorsey[1]
F
 November 22, 1885 June 25, 2000 114 years, 216 days Ohio Ohio
38 Walter Breuning[5]
M
 September 21, 1896 April 14, 2011 114 years, 205 days Minnesota Montana
39 Eunice Sanborn[5]
F
 July 20, 1896 January 31, 2011 114 years, 195 days Louisiana Texas
40 Grace Clawson[1]
F
 November 15, 1887 May 28, 2002 114 years, 194 days United Kingdom New York
41 Wilhelmina Kott[1]
F
 March 7, 1880 September 6, 1994 114 years, 183 days Illinois Illinois
Adelina Domingues[1]
F
 February 19, 1888 August 21, 2002 Cape Verde[e] California
43 Lucy Mirigian[5]
F
 August 15, 1906 February 12, 2021 114 years, 181 days Armenia[f] California
44 Charlotte Benkner[1]
F
 November 16, 1889 May 14, 2004 114 years, 180 days Germany Ohio
45 Ettie Mae Greene[1]
F
 September 8, 1877 February 26, 1992 114 years, 171 days West Virginia West Virginia
46 Dominga Velasco[5]
F
 May 12, 1901 October 11, 2015 114 years, 152 days Mexico California
47 Irene Frank[1]
F
 October 1, 1881 February 28, 1996 114 years, 150 days Texas Missouri
48 Olivia Patricia Thomas[5]
F
 June 29, 1895 November 16, 2009 114 years, 140 days Iowa New York
Alelia Murphy[5]
F
 July 6, 1905 November 23, 2019 North Carolina New York
50 Irene Dunham[5]
F
 December 16, 1907 May 1, 2022[16] 114 years, 136 days Michigan Michigan
51 Nina Willis[10]
F
 January 14, 1909 May 17, 2023[17] 114 years, 123 days Georgia Georgia
52 Anna Henderson[5]
F
 March 5, 1900 July 1, 2014 114 years, 118 days Georgia Pennsylvania
53 Emma Verona Johnston[1]
F
 August 6, 1890 December 1, 2004 114 years, 117 days Iowa Ohio
Mamie Rearden[1]
F
 September 7, 1898 January 2, 2013 South Carolina Georgia
Erna Zahn[5]
F
 April 14, 1908 August 9, 2022[18] Wisconsin Minnesota
56 Bettie Chatmon[1]
F
 April 30, 1884 August 16, 1998 114 years, 108 days Louisiana Texas
Lessie Brown[5]
F
 September 22, 1904 January 8, 2019 Georgia Ohio
58 Odie Matthews[1]
F
 December 28, 1878 April 14, 1993 114 years, 107 days Texas Arizona
59 Florence Knapp[1]
F
 October 10, 1873 January 11, 1988 114 years, 93 days Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
Elena Slough[1]
F
 July 4, 1889 October 5, 2003 Pennsylvania New Jersey
61 Mary Anna Boone[1]
F
 February 10, 1887 May 13, 2001 114 years, 92 days Kentucky Kentucky
62 Minnie Whicker[5]
F
 July 24, 1906 October 22, 2020 114 years, 90 days Arkansas California
63 Delma Kollar[5]
F
 October 31, 1897 January 24, 2012 114 years, 85 days Kansas Oregon
64 Ila Jones[5]
F
 August 21, 1903 November 10, 2017 114 years, 81 days Georgia Georgia
65 Maggie Renfro[5]
F
 November 14, 1895 January 22, 2010 114 years, 69 days Louisiana Louisiana
66 Emma Tillman[1]
F
 November 22, 1892 January 28, 2007 114 years, 67 days North Carolina Connecticut
Anna Stoehr[5]
F
 October 15, 1900 December 21, 2014 Iowa Minnesota
68 Leila Denmark[5]
F
 February 1, 1898 April 1, 2012 114 years, 60 days Georgia Georgia
69 Adele Dunlap[1]
F
 December 12, 1902 February 5, 2017[19] 114 years, 55 days New Jersey New Jersey
70 Naomi Conner[1]
F
 August 30, 1899 October 18, 2013 114 years, 49 days Texas Texas
Ora Holland[5]
F
 December 24, 1900 February 11, 2015 Missouri Oklahoma
72 Ellen Goodwill[5]
F
 February 2, 1907 March 2, 2021[20] 114 years, 28 days Kentucky Michigan
73 Elizabeth Francis[2]
F
 July 25, 1909 Living 114 years, 24 days Louisiana Texas
74 Grace Thaxton[1]
F
 June 18, 1891 July 6, 2005 114 years, 18 days New York Kentucky
75 Soledad Mexia[1]
F
 August 13, 1899 August 30, 2013 114 years, 17 days Mexico California
76 Minnie Ward[1]
F
 November 19, 1885 December 2, 1999 114 years, 13 days Tennessee Massachusetts
77 Arbella Ewing[5]
F
 March 13, 1894 March 22, 2008 114 years, 9 days Texas Texas
78 Catherine Hagel[5]
F
 November 28, 1894 December 6, 2008 114 years, 8 days Minnesota Minnesota
79 Emma Otis[5]
F
 October 22, 1901 October 25, 2015 114 years, 3 days Washington Washington
80 Fred H. Hale, Sr.[1]
M
 December 1, 1890 November 19, 2004 113 years, 354 days Maine New York
81 Miriam Carpelan[1]
F
 July 8, 1882 June 22, 1996 113 years, 350 days United Kingdom California
Elsie Thompson[1]
F
 April 5, 1899 March 21, 2013 Pennsylvania Florida
83 Bertha Fry[1]
F
 December 1, 1893 November 14, 2007 113 years, 348 days Indiana Indiana
84 Mae Harrington[1]
F
 January 20, 1889 December 29, 2002 113 years, 343 days New York New York
85 Daisey Bailey[5]
F
 March 30, 1896 March 7, 2010 113 years, 342 days Tennessee Michigan
86 Agatha Mitchell[1]
F
 March 26, 1887 February 25, 2001 113 years, 336 days Virginia Virginia
87 Goldie Michelson[5]
F
 August 8, 1902 July 8, 2016 113 years, 335 days Ukraine[g] Massachusetts
88 Merle Barwis[5]
F
 December 23, 1900 November 22, 2014 113 years, 334 days Iowa Canada
89 Clara Huhn[1]
F
 January 28, 1887 December 20, 2000 113 years, 327 days Nebraska California
Beulah Meloche[5]
F
 December 5, 1906 October 27, 2020 New York New York
91 Pearl Berg[2]
F
 October 1, 1909 Living 113 years, 321 days Indiana California
92 Corinne Dixon Taylor[1]
F
 April 2, 1893 February 14, 2007 113 years, 318 days District of Columbia District of Columbia
93 Annabelle Holblinger[10]
F
 March 16, 1909 January 27, 2023[21] 113 years, 317 days New York Colorado
94 Mary Christian[1]
F
 June 12, 1889 April 20, 2003 113 years, 312 days Massachusetts California
95 Florence Carroll[5]
F
 June 9, 1907 April 15, 2021 113 years, 310 days New York Connecticut
96 Ruth Newman[5]
F
 September 23, 1901 July 29, 2015 113 years, 309 days California California
97 Irene Dutton[5]
F
 July 16, 1906 May 15, 2020 113 years, 304 days Michigan Michigan
Barbara Barton[22]
F
 October 12, 1908 August 12, 2022[23] Rhode Island Rhode Island
99 Evelyn Kozak[1]
F
 August 14, 1899 June 11, 2013 113 years, 301 days New York New York
100 Louisiana Hines[1]
F
 April 13, 1899 February 1, 2013 113 years, 294 days Alabama Michigan

Biographies

Ann Pouder

 
Ann Pouder on her 110th birthday; photograph from June 1919 National Geographic magazine

Ann Pouder (née Ann Marie Alexander; April 8, 1807 – July 10, 1917) was one of the first modern recognized supercentenarians, living to an age of 110 years, 93 days.[24] Born in London, she emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 12, settling in Baltimore, Maryland, where she lived for the remainder of her life. She married Alexander Pouder, though she became a widow very early and had no children. Her extreme longevity claim was certified by Alexander Graham Bell.[25] She was bedridden, blind and almost deaf in her last few months, but her mind remained sharp.[26]

Mary Bidwell

Mary Electa Bidwell (May 9, 1881 – April 25, 1996)[13] was an American supercentenarian. She died aged 114 years and 352 days and is the oldest person on record ever to die in Connecticut.[27][28][29]

Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel.[28] She was a descendant of John Bidwell, one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. Bidwell worked as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse for six years. She married Charles Hubbell Bidwell, a distant cousin, in 1906.[27] 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.[29]

Maggie Barnes

Maggie Pauline Barnes (née Hinnant; March 6, 1882 – January 19, 1998)[30] was an American supercentenarian. She was born to a former slave and married a tenant farmer. Barnes died on January 19, 1998, in Johnston County, North Carolina, of gangrene.[31] She was survived by four of her fifteen children.[31]

Her exact year of birth has been disputed. Though the year 1882 is written in her family bible, the 1900 US Census records her birth year as 1881 and her marriage license claims that she was born in 1880.[31] Authenticating to what was put on the family Bible, Barnes lived for 115 years and 319 days.

Adelina Domingues

Adelina Domingues (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian who was the world's oldest person from the death of 114-year-old British-American woman Grace Clawson on May 28, 2002, to her own death less than three months later.[32] Domingues was born in Cape Verde. Domingues's Italian father was a harbor pilot by profession, and her mother was Portuguese by ethnicity.[33] She married a ship captain in 1907, and moved to the United States that year.[33] Her husband died from cancer in 1950.[33] Domingues was a missionary from the Church of the Nazarene in Cape Verde and other parts of Africa, and also a religious preacher when she lived in Massachusetts, as well as an expert seamstress.[33]

Domingues was a firm believer in the American Dream, was deeply religious, had conservative political views and was a pen pal of former President of the United States Ronald Reagan.[33] She had four children, but only one of them (a son, Frank) reached adulthood.[33] Frank died in 1998 at the age of 71, with Adelina outliving him by four years.[33] Domingues died at a nursing home in the San Diego, California, area on August 21, 2002, at age 114 years and 183 days.[33] She had claimed she was actually one year older, or 115 years old, but her family and Cape Verdean diplomats did some research and discovered her baptismal information, from which they concluded that Domingues was 114 years old when she died.[34]

Charlotte Benkner

Charlotte Benkner (née Enterlein; November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004)[35][36][37][38] was an American supercentenarian and considered the world's oldest person from 2003 to 2004.[39][35][36] Subsequent recognition of other supercentenarians ranked Benkner as the third oldest at the time of her death.[37]

Benkner was born in Leipzig, Germany, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1896. She grew up in Peekskill, New York, where her family ran the Albert Hotel, and as a young woman once met then U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.[38][40] After her 1908 marriage to Karl Benkner, she moved west, living in Pennsylvania and Ohio, before retiring to Arizona. Already a supercentenarian and the oldest person in Arizona, Benkner returned to Ohio to live in North Lima with her sister Tillie O'Hare, her youngest sibling.[38] Tillie died in January 2004, just three weeks shy of becoming a centenarian.[40] Benkner survived her sister by only four months, and died at age 114 years and 180 days, after a brief hospital stay in Youngstown, Ohio.

Emma Verona Johnston

Emma Verona Johnston (née Calhoun; August 6, 1890 – December 1, 2004) was an American supercentenarian who was born in Indianola, Iowa, to a large family.[41] She graduated from Drake University in the Class of 1912 and went on to work as a Latin teacher before she married ophthalmologist Harry Johnston;[42][43][44] at the time of her death, she was the university's oldest living graduate.[42]

At age 98, Johnston moved from Iowa to Ohio in order to live with her daughter and son-in-law. Even after turning 110, she continued to be in good health, alert and engaging in conversations, and was still able to walk up steps.[42] She became the oldest known living American in May 2004.[41] Three months later, on the occasion of her 114th birthday, she was presented with a proclamation signed by then Drake University President David Maxwell.[45] The university's Vice President for Institutional Advancement, John Willey, nominated her for an honorary degree.[44] Johnston died in Worthington, Ohio, on December 1, 2004,[41] at age 114 years and 117 days.

Bettie Wilson

Bettie Antry Wilson (née Rutherford; September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006)[46] was the oldest resident of Mississippi ever recorded, and was considered the oldest living person in the United States from December 2004 until the subsequent verification of Elizabeth Bolden.[citation needed] Both were born in the rural South, where they lived less than 100 miles apart. Wilson was the daughter of freed slaves, Solomon and Delia Rutherford.[47]

In April 2005, Wilson moved into a new home funded by donations, in New Albany. She celebrated her 115th birthday in September 2005, and died on February 13, 2006, aged 115 years, 153 days. She was survived by her son, five grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, 95 great-great-grandchildren and 38 great-great-great-grandchildren.[46]

George Francis

George Rene Francis (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008)[48][49][50] was an American supercentenarian and the joint second-oldest living man in the world, together with Englishman Henry Allingham, also born on June 6, 1896, until Francis's death aged 112 years and 204 days. He was also the oldest living man in the United States, following the death of then 111-year-old Antonio Pierro on February 8, 2007. Francis was from New Orleans, Louisiana, but after 1949 lived in Sacramento, California, where a local newspaper published a poem that Francis enjoyed reciting to friends and the public throughout his life.[51] 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.[52]

Francis attempted to join the army in World War I, but was rejected for service in 1918 as being too short and small (he weighed only about 100 pounds [45 kg]). Despite this, he later was a boxer before becoming a barber and then a chauffeur.[48]

Bernice Madigan

Bernice Madigan (née Emerson; July 24, 1899 – January 3, 2015) was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts,[5][53][54] and moved to Cheshire when she was six.[55] In 1918, after graduating from Adams High School,[55][56] she responded to government drives to recruit women into employment during WWI, and moved to Washington, D.C.[53] After the war, she worked as a secretary for the Department of the Treasury and the Veterans Administration.[57] She married Paul Madigan (d. 1976) in 1925;[57] they lived in the Washington, D.C., area and then in Silver Spring, Maryland.[55] She retired in 1942, after which she volunteered with the church and at nursing homes, playing piano for residents.[55] She returned to live with family in Massachusetts in 2007.[57] She participated in Boston University School of Medicine's New England Centenarian Study,[58] and was interviewed and filmed by the Center for Aging at the University of Chicago and the ABC World News.[58] She is one of 100 centenarians in The Archon Genomics XPRIZE.[59][60] She joined social media, with profiles on Facebook and Twitter.[57][61][62] Madigan died in her sleep at the age of 115 years and 163 days at 2 a.m. on January 3, 2015.[54][62] At the time of her death, she was the oldest living resident of Massachusetts,[63] the fourth-oldest living person in the United States[64] and the world's fifth-oldest living person.[64][65]

Evelyn Kozak

Eva Chavka Rivka "Evelyn" Kozak (née Jacobson) (August 14, 1899 – June 11, 2013)[66][67] was an American Jewish supercentenarian,[68][69][70][71] born in New York City to Isaac and Kate Jacobson, who fled from the Russian Empire, and the oldest verified Jewish person in history from November 6, 2012, 12 weeks after turning 113, when she broke fellow German-born American Adelheid Kirschbaum's record of 113 years and 83 days though until August 27, 2014, when fellow Russian-born American Goldie Steinberg (born October 30, 1900), who was the oldest living Jewish person after her death, broke her record.

Kozak died of a heart attack at a hospital in Brooklyn, New York City, early in the morning of Tuesday June 11, 2013[when?] - barely around a quarter of a day before the oldest living person, 116-year-old Japaneseman Jiroemon Kimura (who died 2:08 a.m. the night of June 12 = 1:08 p.m. the afternoon of June 11 EDT). She survived two of her five children and had 10 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

Notes

  1. ^ May have been older (116 or even 117); possibly born in 1881 or even 1880
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Residents of Puerto Rico born on or after April 25, 1898, are United States citizens.[12]
  4. ^ Steinberg was born in Kishinev, which had then been a part of the Russian Empire. It is now the capital of Moldova.
  5. ^ Domingues was born in Cape Verde, which was at that time a Portuguese colony. Now it is an independent country.
  6. ^ Mirigian was born in Armenia, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
  7. ^ Michelson was born in Elizabethgrad, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. It is now part of Ukraine.

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American supercentenarians are citizens or residents of the United States who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age As of January 2015 update the Gerontology Research Group GRG had validated the longevity claims of 782 American supercentenarians 1 As of August 18 2023 it lists the oldest living American born person as Spanish emigrant Maria Branyas born in San Francisco California on March 4 1907 aged 116 years 167 days The oldest American resident is listed as Edie Ceccarelli born in Willits California on February 5 1908 aged 115 years 194 days 2 The longest lived person ever from the United States is Sarah Knauss of Hollywood Luzerne County Pennsylvania who died on December 30 1999 aged 119 years and 97 days 3 4 Contents 1 100 oldest known Americans 2 Biographies 2 1 Ann Pouder 2 2 Mary Bidwell 2 3 Maggie Barnes 2 4 Adelina Domingues 2 5 Charlotte Benkner 2 6 Emma Verona Johnston 2 7 Bettie Wilson 2 8 George Francis 2 9 Bernice Madigan 2 10 Evelyn Kozak 3 Notes 4 References100 oldest known Americans EditBelow is a list of the 100 longest lived American supercentenarians according to the GRG and reliable sourcing 1 5 Deceased Living Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age Birthplace Place of death or residence0 1 Sarah Knauss 1 F September 24 1880 December 30 1999 119 years 97 days Pennsylvania Pennsylvania0 2 Delphia Welford 6 F September 9 1875 November 14 1992 117 years 66 days Mississippi Tennessee0 3 Susannah Mushatt Jones 5 F July 6 1899 May 12 2016 116 years 311 days Alabama New York0 4 Gertrude Weaver 5 F July 4 1898 April 6 2015 116 years 276 days Arkansas Arkansas0 5 Maria Branyas 2 F March 4 1907 Living 116 years 167 days California Spain0 6 Elizabeth Bolden 1 F August 15 1890 December 11 2006 116 years 118 days Tennessee Tennessee0 7 Besse Cooper 5 F August 26 1896 December 4 2012 116 years 100 days Tennessee Georgia0 8 Jeralean Talley 5 F May 23 1899 June 17 2015 116 years 25 days Georgia Michigan0 9 Maggie Barnes 1 a F March 6 1882 January 19 1998 115 years 319 days North Carolina North Carolina10 Dina Manfredini 5 F April 4 1897 December 17 2012 115 years 257 days Italy Iowa11 Christian Mortensen 1 M August 16 1882 April 25 1998 115 years 252 days Denmark California12 Hester Ford 5 F August 15 1905 April 17 2021 7 115 years 245 days South Carolina North Carolina13 Edna Parker 5 F April 20 1893 November 26 2008 115 years 220 days Indiana Indiana14 Edie Ceccarelli 2 F February 5 1908 Living 115 years 194 days California California15 Margaret Skeete 1 F October 27 1878 May 7 1994 115 years 192 days Texas Virginia16 Bernice Madigan 5 F July 24 1899 January 3 2015 115 years 163 days Massachusetts Massachusetts17 Gertrude Baines 5 F April 6 1894 September 11 2009 115 years 158 days Georgia California18 Bettie Wilson 1 F September 13 1890 February 13 2006 115 years 153 days Mississippi Mississippi19 Iris Westman 5 F August 28 1905 January 3 2021 8 115 years 128 days North Dakota North Dakota20 Marie Josephine Gaudette 5 F March 25 1902 July 13 2017 115 years 110 days New Hampshire Italy21 Susie Gibson 1 F October 31 1890 February 16 2006 115 years 108 days Mississippi AlabamaThelma Sutcliffe 5 F October 1 1906 January 17 2022 9 Nebraska Nebraska23 Augusta Holtz 1 F August 3 1871 October 21 1986 115 years 79 days Prussia b Missouri24 Bessie Hendricks 10 F November 7 1907 January 3 2023 11 115 years 57 days Iowa Iowa25 Maude Farris Luse 1 F January 21 1887 March 18 2002 115 years 56 days Michigan Michigan26 Antonia Gerena Rivera 5 F May 19 1900 June 2 2015 115 years 14 days Puerto Rico c Florida27 Mary Bidwell 13 F May 9 1881 April 25 1996 114 years 352 days Connecticut Connecticut28 Hazel Plummer 10 F June 19 1908 May 25 2023 14 114 years 340 days Massachusetts Massachusetts29 Ophelia Burks 6 F October 25 1903 September 27 2018 114 years 337 days Louisiana Louisiana30 Mary Josephine Ray 5 F May 17 1895 March 7 2010 114 years 294 days Canada New Hampshire31 Goldie Steinberg 5 F October 30 1900 August 16 2015 114 years 290 days Moldova d New York32 Delphine Gibson 5 F August 17 1903 May 9 2018 114 years 265 days South Carolina Pennsylvania33 Neva Morris 5 F August 3 1895 April 6 2010 114 years 246 days Iowa Iowa34 Blanche Cobb 5 F September 8 1900 May 1 2015 114 years 235 days Georgia Florida35 Mila Mangold 5 F November 14 1907 July 2 2022 15 114 years 230 days Nebraska California36 Carrie Lazenby 1 F February 9 1882 September 14 1996 114 years 218 days Georgia Illinois37 Myrtle Dorsey 1 F November 22 1885 June 25 2000 114 years 216 days Ohio Ohio38 Walter Breuning 5 M September 21 1896 April 14 2011 114 years 205 days Minnesota Montana39 Eunice Sanborn 5 F July 20 1896 January 31 2011 114 years 195 days Louisiana Texas40 Grace Clawson 1 F November 15 1887 May 28 2002 114 years 194 days United Kingdom New York41 Wilhelmina Kott 1 F March 7 1880 September 6 1994 114 years 183 days Illinois IllinoisAdelina Domingues 1 F February 19 1888 August 21 2002 Cape Verde e California43 Lucy Mirigian 5 F August 15 1906 February 12 2021 114 years 181 days Armenia f California44 Charlotte Benkner 1 F November 16 1889 May 14 2004 114 years 180 days Germany Ohio45 Ettie Mae Greene 1 F September 8 1877 February 26 1992 114 years 171 days West Virginia West Virginia46 Dominga Velasco 5 F May 12 1901 October 11 2015 114 years 152 days Mexico California47 Irene Frank 1 F October 1 1881 February 28 1996 114 years 150 days Texas Missouri48 Olivia Patricia Thomas 5 F June 29 1895 November 16 2009 114 years 140 days Iowa New YorkAlelia Murphy 5 F July 6 1905 November 23 2019 North Carolina New York50 Irene Dunham 5 F December 16 1907 May 1 2022 16 114 years 136 days Michigan Michigan51 Nina Willis 10 F January 14 1909 May 17 2023 17 114 years 123 days Georgia Georgia52 Anna Henderson 5 F March 5 1900 July 1 2014 114 years 118 days Georgia Pennsylvania53 Emma Verona Johnston 1 F August 6 1890 December 1 2004 114 years 117 days Iowa OhioMamie Rearden 1 F September 7 1898 January 2 2013 South Carolina GeorgiaErna Zahn 5 F April 14 1908 August 9 2022 18 Wisconsin Minnesota56 Bettie Chatmon 1 F April 30 1884 August 16 1998 114 years 108 days Louisiana TexasLessie Brown 5 F September 22 1904 January 8 2019 Georgia Ohio58 Odie Matthews 1 F December 28 1878 April 14 1993 114 years 107 days Texas Arizona59 Florence Knapp 1 F October 10 1873 January 11 1988 114 years 93 days Pennsylvania PennsylvaniaElena Slough 1 F July 4 1889 October 5 2003 Pennsylvania New Jersey61 Mary Anna Boone 1 F February 10 1887 May 13 2001 114 years 92 days Kentucky Kentucky62 Minnie Whicker 5 F July 24 1906 October 22 2020 114 years 90 days Arkansas California63 Delma Kollar 5 F October 31 1897 January 24 2012 114 years 85 days Kansas Oregon64 Ila Jones 5 F August 21 1903 November 10 2017 114 years 81 days Georgia Georgia65 Maggie Renfro 5 F November 14 1895 January 22 2010 114 years 69 days Louisiana Louisiana66 Emma Tillman 1 F November 22 1892 January 28 2007 114 years 67 days North Carolina ConnecticutAnna Stoehr 5 F October 15 1900 December 21 2014 Iowa Minnesota68 Leila Denmark 5 F February 1 1898 April 1 2012 114 years 60 days Georgia Georgia69 Adele Dunlap 1 F December 12 1902 February 5 2017 19 114 years 55 days New Jersey New Jersey70 Naomi Conner 1 F August 30 1899 October 18 2013 114 years 49 days Texas TexasOra Holland 5 F December 24 1900 February 11 2015 Missouri Oklahoma72 Ellen Goodwill 5 F February 2 1907 March 2 2021 20 114 years 28 days Kentucky Michigan73 Elizabeth Francis 2 F July 25 1909 Living 114 years 24 days Louisiana Texas74 Grace Thaxton 1 F June 18 1891 July 6 2005 114 years 18 days New York Kentucky75 Soledad Mexia 1 F August 13 1899 August 30 2013 114 years 17 days Mexico California76 Minnie Ward 1 F November 19 1885 December 2 1999 114 years 13 days Tennessee Massachusetts77 Arbella Ewing 5 F March 13 1894 March 22 2008 114 years 9 days Texas Texas78 Catherine Hagel 5 F November 28 1894 December 6 2008 114 years 8 days Minnesota Minnesota79 Emma Otis 5 F October 22 1901 October 25 2015 114 years 3 days Washington Washington80 Fred H Hale Sr 1 M December 1 1890 November 19 2004 113 years 354 days Maine New York81 Miriam Carpelan 1 F July 8 1882 June 22 1996 113 years 350 days United Kingdom CaliforniaElsie Thompson 1 F April 5 1899 March 21 2013 Pennsylvania Florida83 Bertha Fry 1 F December 1 1893 November 14 2007 113 years 348 days Indiana Indiana84 Mae Harrington 1 F January 20 1889 December 29 2002 113 years 343 days New York New York85 Daisey Bailey 5 F March 30 1896 March 7 2010 113 years 342 days Tennessee Michigan86 Agatha Mitchell 1 F March 26 1887 February 25 2001 113 years 336 days Virginia Virginia87 Goldie Michelson 5 F August 8 1902 July 8 2016 113 years 335 days Ukraine g Massachusetts88 Merle Barwis 5 F December 23 1900 November 22 2014 113 years 334 days Iowa Canada89 Clara Huhn 1 F January 28 1887 December 20 2000 113 years 327 days Nebraska CaliforniaBeulah Meloche 5 F December 5 1906 October 27 2020 New York New York91 Pearl Berg 2 F October 1 1909 Living 113 years 321 days Indiana California92 Corinne Dixon Taylor 1 F April 2 1893 February 14 2007 113 years 318 days District of Columbia District of Columbia93 Annabelle Holblinger 10 F March 16 1909 January 27 2023 21 113 years 317 days New York Colorado94 Mary Christian 1 F June 12 1889 April 20 2003 113 years 312 days Massachusetts California95 Florence Carroll 5 F June 9 1907 April 15 2021 113 years 310 days New York Connecticut96 Ruth Newman 5 F September 23 1901 July 29 2015 113 years 309 days California California97 Irene Dutton 5 F July 16 1906 May 15 2020 113 years 304 days Michigan MichiganBarbara Barton 22 F October 12 1908 August 12 2022 23 Rhode Island Rhode Island99 Evelyn Kozak 1 F August 14 1899 June 11 2013 113 years 301 days New York New York100 Louisiana Hines 1 F April 13 1899 February 1 2013 113 years 294 days Alabama MichiganBiographies EditAnn Pouder Edit Ann Pouder on her 110th birthday photograph from June 1919 National Geographic magazineAnn Pouder nee Ann Marie Alexander April 8 1807 July 10 1917 was one of the first modern recognized supercentenarians living to an age of 110 years 93 days 24 Born in London she emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 12 settling in Baltimore Maryland where she lived for the remainder of her life She married Alexander Pouder though she became a widow very early and had no children Her extreme longevity claim was certified by Alexander Graham Bell 25 She was bedridden blind and almost deaf in her last few months but her mind remained sharp 26 Mary Bidwell Edit Mary Electa Bidwell May 9 1881 April 25 1996 13 was an American supercentenarian She died aged 114 years and 352 days and is the oldest person on record ever to die in Connecticut 27 28 29 Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel 28 She was a descendant of John Bidwell one of the founders of Hartford Connecticut Bidwell worked as a teacher in a one room schoolhouse for six years She married Charles Hubbell Bidwell a distant cousin in 1906 27 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 29 Maggie Barnes Edit Maggie Pauline Barnes nee Hinnant March 6 1882 January 19 1998 30 was an American supercentenarian She was born to a former slave and married a tenant farmer Barnes died on January 19 1998 in Johnston County North Carolina of gangrene 31 She was survived by four of her fifteen children 31 Her exact year of birth has been disputed Though the year 1882 is written in her family bible the 1900 US Census records her birth year as 1881 and her marriage license claims that she was born in 1880 31 Authenticating to what was put on the family Bible Barnes lived for 115 years and 319 days Adelina Domingues Edit Adelina Domingues February 19 1888 August 21 2002 was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian who was the world s oldest person from the death of 114 year old British American woman Grace Clawson on May 28 2002 to her own death less than three months later 32 Domingues was born in Cape Verde Domingues s Italian father was a harbor pilot by profession and her mother was Portuguese by ethnicity 33 She married a ship captain in 1907 and moved to the United States that year 33 Her husband died from cancer in 1950 33 Domingues was a missionary from the Church of the Nazarene in Cape Verde and other parts of Africa and also a religious preacher when she lived in Massachusetts as well as an expert seamstress 33 Domingues was a firm believer in the American Dream was deeply religious had conservative political views and was a pen pal of former President of the United States Ronald Reagan 33 She had four children but only one of them a son Frank reached adulthood 33 Frank died in 1998 at the age of 71 with Adelina outliving him by four years 33 Domingues died at a nursing home in the San Diego California area on August 21 2002 at age 114 years and 183 days 33 She had claimed she was actually one year older or 115 years old but her family and Cape Verdean diplomats did some research and discovered her baptismal information from which they concluded that Domingues was 114 years old when she died 34 Charlotte Benkner Edit Charlotte Benkner nee Enterlein November 16 1889 May 14 2004 35 36 37 38 was an American supercentenarian and considered the world s oldest person from 2003 to 2004 39 35 36 Subsequent recognition of other supercentenarians ranked Benkner as the third oldest at the time of her death 37 Benkner was born in Leipzig Germany and emigrated to the U S in 1896 She grew up in Peekskill New York where her family ran the Albert Hotel and as a young woman once met then U S President Theodore Roosevelt 38 40 After her 1908 marriage to Karl Benkner she moved west living in Pennsylvania and Ohio before retiring to Arizona Already a supercentenarian and the oldest person in Arizona Benkner returned to Ohio to live in North Lima with her sister Tillie O Hare her youngest sibling 38 Tillie died in January 2004 just three weeks shy of becoming a centenarian 40 Benkner survived her sister by only four months and died at age 114 years and 180 days after a brief hospital stay in Youngstown Ohio Emma Verona Johnston Edit Emma Verona Johnston nee Calhoun August 6 1890 December 1 2004 was an American supercentenarian who was born in Indianola Iowa to a large family 41 She graduated from Drake University in the Class of 1912 and went on to work as a Latin teacher before she married ophthalmologist Harry Johnston 42 43 44 at the time of her death she was the university s oldest living graduate 42 At age 98 Johnston moved from Iowa to Ohio in order to live with her daughter and son in law Even after turning 110 she continued to be in good health alert and engaging in conversations and was still able to walk up steps 42 She became the oldest known living American in May 2004 41 Three months later on the occasion of her 114th birthday she was presented with a proclamation signed by then Drake University President David Maxwell 45 The university s Vice President for Institutional Advancement John Willey nominated her for an honorary degree 44 Johnston died in Worthington Ohio on December 1 2004 41 at age 114 years and 117 days Bettie Wilson Edit Bettie Antry Wilson nee Rutherford September 13 1890 February 13 2006 46 was the oldest resident of Mississippi ever recorded and was considered the oldest living person in the United States from December 2004 until the subsequent verification of Elizabeth Bolden citation needed Both were born in the rural South where they lived less than 100 miles apart Wilson was the daughter of freed slaves Solomon and Delia Rutherford 47 In April 2005 Wilson moved into a new home funded by donations in New Albany She celebrated her 115th birthday in September 2005 and died on February 13 2006 aged 115 years 153 days She was survived by her son five grandchildren 46 great grandchildren 95 great great grandchildren and 38 great great great grandchildren 46 George Francis Edit George Rene Francis June 6 1896 December 27 2008 48 49 50 was an American supercentenarian and the joint second oldest living man in the world together with Englishman Henry Allingham also born on June 6 1896 until Francis s death aged 112 years and 204 days He was also the oldest living man in the United States following the death of then 111 year old Antonio Pierro on February 8 2007 Francis was from New Orleans Louisiana but after 1949 lived in Sacramento California where a local newspaper published a poem that Francis enjoyed reciting to friends and the public throughout his life 51 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 52 Francis attempted to join the army in World War I but was rejected for service in 1918 as being too short and small he weighed only about 100 pounds 45 kg Despite this he later was a boxer before becoming a barber and then a chauffeur 48 Bernice Madigan Edit Bernice Madigan nee Emerson July 24 1899 January 3 2015 was born in West Springfield Massachusetts 5 53 54 and moved to Cheshire when she was six 55 In 1918 after graduating from Adams High School 55 56 she responded to government drives to recruit women into employment during WWI and moved to Washington D C 53 After the war she worked as a secretary for the Department of the Treasury and the Veterans Administration 57 She married Paul Madigan d 1976 in 1925 57 they lived in the Washington D C area and then in Silver Spring Maryland 55 She retired in 1942 after which she volunteered with the church and at nursing homes playing piano for residents 55 She returned to live with family in Massachusetts in 2007 57 She participated in Boston University School of Medicine s New England Centenarian Study 58 and was interviewed and filmed by the Center for Aging at the University of Chicago and the ABC World News 58 She is one of 100 centenarians in The Archon Genomics XPRIZE 59 60 She joined social media with profiles on Facebook and Twitter 57 61 62 Madigan died in her sleep at the age of 115 years and 163 days at 2 a m on January 3 2015 54 62 At the time of her death she was the oldest living resident of Massachusetts 63 the fourth oldest living person in the United States 64 and the world s fifth oldest living person 64 65 Evelyn Kozak Edit Eva Chavka Rivka Evelyn Kozak nee Jacobson August 14 1899 June 11 2013 66 67 was an American Jewish supercentenarian 68 69 70 71 born in New York City to Isaac and Kate Jacobson who fled from the Russian Empire and the oldest verified Jewish person in history from November 6 2012 12 weeks after turning 113 when she broke fellow German born American Adelheid Kirschbaum s record of 113 years and 83 days though until August 27 2014 when fellow Russian born American Goldie Steinberg born October 30 1900 who was the oldest living Jewish person after her death broke her record Kozak died of a heart attack at a hospital in Brooklyn New York City early in the morning of Tuesday June 11 2013 when barely around a quarter of a day before the oldest living person 116 year old Japaneseman Jiroemon Kimura who died 2 08 a m the night of June 12 1 08 p m the afternoon of June 11 EDT She survived two of her five children and had 10 grandchildren 28 great grandchildren and one great great grandson Notes Edit May have been older 116 or even 117 possibly born in 1881 or even 1880 Holtz was born in the Province of Posen which was a part of the German Empire at the time of her birth Today this area is a part of Poland Residents of Puerto Rico born on or after April 25 1898 are United States citizens 12 Steinberg was born in Kishinev which had then been a part of the Russian Empire It is now the capital of Moldova Domingues was born in Cape Verde which was at that time a Portuguese colony Now it is an independent country 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