List of supercentenarians from the United States

Walter Breuning, April 8, 2010, the second-oldest American-born man on record

This article includes lists of supercentenarians from the United States, or 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 7 May 2016, lists 11 living American supercentenarians.^[2] The oldest living person from the United States is Susannah Mushatt Jones, aged 116 years, 306 days.^[3] Jones also holds the record for the oldest living person in the world.^[2] The oldest person ever from the United States was Sarah Knauss, who died on December 30, 1999 at age 119 years, 97 days.^[4][5][6][7]

Living United States supercentenarians

Below is a list of supercentenarians living in the United States, from the oldest to youngest. Currently there are 40 documented cases, 39 females and 1 male.

No.	Name	Sex	Birthdate	Age as of 7 May 2016	Birthplace	Residence
1	Susannah Mushatt Jones[2]	F	July 6, 1899	116 years, 306 days	Alabama	New York
2	Goldie Michelson[2]	F	August 8, 1902	113 years, 273 days	Russia[lower-alpha 1]	Massachusetts
3	Adele Dunlap[2]	F	December 12, 1902	113 years, 147 days	New Jersey	New Jersey
4	Irene Ciuffoletti[2]	F	January 19, 1903	113 years, 109 days	Italy	Pennsylvania
5	Meta Dishman[2]	F	June 1, 1903	112 years, 341 days	Virginia	Virginia
6	Viola Jacobi[2]	F	July 25, 1903	112 years, 287 days	Wisconsin	Wisconsin
7	Delphine Gibson[2]	F	August 17, 1903	112 years, 264 days	South Carolina	Pennsylvania
8	Ila Jones[2]	F	August 21, 1903	112 years, 260 days	Georgia	Georgia
9	Florence Boggs[2]	F	November 16, 1903	112 years, 173 days	New York	California
10	Tameko Shijo[2]	F	January 1, 1904	112 years, 127 days	Japan	California
11	Vera Van Wagner[2]	F	May 24, 1904	111 years, 349 days	New York	New York
12	Lessie Brown[8]	F	September 22, 1904	111 years, 228 days	Georgia	Ohio
13	Emma Hough[9]	F	December 2, 1904	111 years, 157 days	Iowa	Iowa
14	Veta[10] Walters[11]	F	December 14, 1904	111 years, 145 days	Jamaica	New York
15	Bessie Porter[12]	F	January 31, 1905	111 years, 97 days	Alabama	Michigan
16	Leta Nolen[13]	F	February 17, 1905	111 years, 80 days	Arkansas	Arkansas
17	Mary Spingola[14]	F	March 25, 1905	111 years, 43 days	New York	California
18	Tressa Bartholomew[15]	F	March 30, 1905	111 years, 38 days	Iowa	Iowa
19	Katherine Bodenbender[16]	F	April 19, 1905	111 years, 18 days	Germany	Illinois
20	Chrystal Harper[17]	F	June 28, 1905	110 years, 314 days	Idaho	Idaho
21	Clara Anderson[18]	F	July 2, 1905	110 years, 310 days	Missouri	Alaska
22	Alelia Murphy[19]	F	July 6, 1905	110 years, 306 days	North Carolina	New York
23	Roberta Farris[20]	F	July 19, 1905	110 years, 293 days	Texas	Texas
24	Molly Schmidt[21]	F	July 22, 1905	110 years, 290 days	Canada	Washington
25	Ruby Clodfelter[22]	F	July 26, 1905	110 years, 286 days	North Carolina	North Carolina
26	Agnes Fenton[23]	F	August 1, 1905	110 years, 280 days	Mississippi	New Jersey
27	Lena Dick[24]	F	August 5, 1905	110 years, 276 days	Minnesota	Minnesota
28	Armida Sholar[25]	F	August 9, 1905	110 years, 272 days	South Carolina	North Carolina
29	Hester Ford[26]	F	August 15, 1905	110 years, 266 days	North Carolina	North Carolina
30	Iris Westman[27]	F	August 28, 1905	110 years, 253 days	North Dakota	North Dakota
31	Juliana Koo[28]	F	September 26, 1905	110 years, 224 days	China	New York
32	Mary Marsh[29]	F	October 8, 1905	110 years, 212 days	Virginia	Virginia
33	Maggie DeVane[30]	F	November 17, 1905	110 years, 172 days	North Carolina	North Carolina
34	Isabel Castano Restrepo[31]	F	January 11, 1906	110 years, 117 days	Colombia	Florida
35	Winonah Greene[32]	F	January 13, 1906	110 years, 115 days	Florida	Florida
36	Mamie Johnson[33]	F	January 13, 1906	110 years, 115 days	Tennessee	Tennessee
37	Melissa Traylor[34]	F	February 6, 1906	110 years, 91 days	Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania
38	Flossie Dickey[35]	F	February 18, 1906	110 years, 79 days	Oregon	Washington
39	Nell Foster[36]	F	March 27, 1906	110 years, 41 days	Georgia	Georgia
40	Clarence Matthews[37]	M	May 1, 1906	110 years, 6 days	California	California

100 longest lived Americans

Below is a list of the longest lived American supercentenarians according to the GRG.^[38] Entries for living people are rendered in italics.

†^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 7 May 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	Living	116 years, 306 days	Alabama	Living in 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[39]	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[39]	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[40]	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[41]	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 2]	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[42]	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 3]	New York
23	Neva Morris[42]	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[43]	M	September 21, 1896	April 14, 2011	114 years, 205 days	Minnesota	Montana
29	Eunice Sanborn[43]	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 4]	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[41]	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[39]	F	October 31, 1897	January 24, 2012	114 years, 85 days	Kansas	Oregon
47	Maggie Renfro[42]	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[39]	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 [44]	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[40]	F	March 13, 1894	March 22, 2008	114 years, 9 days	Texas	Texas
57	Catherine Hagel[40]	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	Fred Hale[1]	M	December 1, 1890	November 19, 2004	113 years, 354 days	Maine	New York
60	Miriam Carpelan[45]	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
62	Bertha Fry[46]	F	December 1, 1893	November 14, 2007	113 years, 348 days	Indiana	Indiana
63	Mae Harrington[1]	F	January 20, 1889	December 29, 2002	113 years, 343 days	New York	New York
64	Daisey Bailey[42]	F	March 30, 1896	March 7, 2010	113 years, 342 days	Tennessee	Michigan
65	Agatha Mitchell[1]	F	March 26, 1887	February 25, 2001	113 years, 336 days	Virginia	Virginia
66	Clara Huhn[1]	F	January 28, 1887	December 20, 2000	113 years, 327 days	Nebraska	California
67	Corinne Dixon Taylor[1]	F	April 2, 1893	February 14, 2007	113 years, 318 days	District of Columbia	District of Columbia
68	Mary Christian[1]	F	June 12, 1889	April 20, 2003	113 years, 312 days	Massachusetts	California
69	Ruth Newman[2]	F	September 23, 1901	July 29, 2015	113 years, 309 days	California	California
70	Evelyn Kozak[2]	F	August 14, 1899	June 11, 2013	113 years, 301 days	New York	New York
71	Louisiana Hines[2]	F	April 13, 1899	February 1, 2013	113 years, 294 days	Alabama	Michigan
72	Mississippi Winn[43]	F	March 31, 1897	January 14, 2011	113 years, 289 days	Louisiana	Louisiana
73	Fannie Thomas[1]	F	April 14, 1867	January 22, 1981	113 years, 283 days	Illinois	California
74	Opal Thompson[2]	F	January 13, 1901	October 20, 2014	113 years, 280 days	Oklahoma	California
75	Johnson Parks[1]	M	October 15, 1884	July 17, 1998	113 years, 275 days	Georgia	Florida
76	Mary Parr[1]	F	January 29, 1889	October 29, 2002	113 years, 273 days	Indiana	Florida
	Goldie Michelson[2]	F	August 8, 1902	Living	113 years, 273 days	Russia[lower-alpha 5]	Living in Massachusetts
78	Beatrice Farve[41]	F	April 30, 1895	January 19, 2009	113 years, 264 days	Georgia	Georgia
79	Amalia Barone[1]	F	October 6, 1884	June 26, 1998	113 years, 263 days	Italy	Connecticut
80	Zora Wriggle[1]	F	February 24, 1880	November 7, 1993	113 years, 256 days	Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania
81	John Ingram McMorran[1]	M	June 19, 1889	February 24, 2003	113 years, 250 days	Michigan	Florida
82	Mary McKinney[1]	F	May 30, 1873	February 2, 1987	113 years, 248 days	California	California
83	Ella Schuler[43]	F	September 5, 1897	May 7, 2011	113 years, 244 days	Nebraska	Kansas
84	Gladys Swetland[1]	F	April 18, 1892	December 14, 2005	113 years, 240 days	Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania
85	Mary Randall[1]	F	April 1, 1887	November 12, 2000	113 years, 225 days	Arkansas	Texas
86	Delina Filkins[1]	F	May 4, 1815	December 4, 1928	113 years, 214 days	New York	New York
87	Mary Kelly[47]	F	June 7, 1851	December 30, 1964	113 years, 206 days	Michigan	California
88	Nelle Hunt[1]	F	July 28, 1887	February 8, 2001	113 years, 195 days	Missouri	Missouri
	Helen Stetter[46]	F	November 18, 1893	June 1, 2007	113 years, 195 days	Nebraska	Nebraska
90	Carrie Hardrick[1]	F	November 6, 1887	May 14, 2001	113 years, 189 days	Texas	Texas
91	Mamie Eva Keith[1]	F	March 22, 1873	September 20, 1986	113 years, 182 days	Illinois	Illinois
92	Beryl Kapaun[39]	F	June 4, 1899	November 7, 2012	113 years, 156 days	South Dakota	South Dakota
93	Emma Wilson[1]	F	May 12, 1870	October 13, 1983	113 years, 154 days	Missouri	Missouri
94	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
96	Frances Street[42]	F	March 28, 1897	August 24, 2010	113 years, 149 days	South Carolina	North Carolina
97	Adele Dunlap[2]	F	December 12, 1902	Living	113 years, 147 days	New Jersey	Living in New Jersey
98	Kathleen Snavely	F	February 16, 1902	July 6, 2015	113 years, 140 days	Ireland	New York
99	Frederick Frazier[1]	M	January 27, 1880	June 14, 1993	113 years, 138 days	Alabama	Alabama
100	Gertrude Croker[1]	F	July 12, 1881	November 26, 1994	113 years, 137 days	Iowa	Vermont

American emigrant supercentenarians over 113-years-old

Below is a list of supercentenarians at least 113 years old who were born in the United States and who are living in or died in another country. Entries for living people are rendered in italics.

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, 43 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[39]	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][48]	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][49]	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[50][1]	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[51]	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[52]	F	114 – 115	October 27, 1878 – May 7, 1994 115 years, 192 days	Virginia
May 7, 1994	September 6, 1994 (122 days)	Wilhelmina Kott[53]	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[7]	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[54]	F	113	June 12, 1889 – April 20, 2003 113 years, 312 days	California
April 20, 2003	October 5, 2003 (168 days)	Elena Slough[55]	F	113 – 114	July 4, 1889[56] – 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[57]	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][58]	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	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	F	114	May 17, 1895 – March 7, 2010 114 years, 294 days	New Hampshire
March 7, 2010	April 6, 2010 (30 days)	Neva Morris	F	114	August 3, 1895 – April 6, 2010 114 years, 246 days	Iowa
April 6, 2010	January 31, 2011 (300 days)	Eunice Sanborn	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	F	114 – 116	August 26, 1896 – December 4, 2012 116 years, 100 days	Georgia
December 4, 2012	December 17, 2012 (13 days)	Dina Manfredini	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	F	114 – 116	July 4, 1898 – April 6, 2015 116 years, 276 days	Arkansas
April 6, 2015	June 17, 2015 (72 days)	Jeralean Talley	F	115 – 116	May 23, 1899 – June 17, 2015 116 years, 25 days	Michigan
June 17, 2015	Present (325 days)	Susannah Mushatt Jones	F	115 – 116*	born July 6, 1899 aged 116 years, 306 days	New York

People

Ann Pouder

Photo of Ann Pouder published in National Geographic, June 1919.

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.^[59]

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.^[60] In her last few months, she was bedridden, blind, and almost deaf, but her mind remained sharp.^[61]

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.^[62]

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.^[63] 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.^[63] 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)^[64] was an American supercentenarian recognized by Guinness World Records as the 'oldest living American' in its 1995 edition,^[53] 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.^[53] She died on September 6, 1994, aged 114 years 183 days.

Mary Bidwell

Mary Electa Bidwell née Nobel (May 19, 1881– April 25, 1996)^[65] 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.^[66][67][68]

Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel.^[67] 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.^[66]

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.^[65][68]

Maggie Barnes

Maggie Pauline Barnes née Hinnant (March 6, 1882 – January 19, 1998)^[69] was an American supercentenarian. She was a resident of Johnston County, North Carolina. Barnes died from complications following a minor foot infection.^[70] 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.^[70]

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.^[70] 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)^[71] 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.^[72]

Delvina Dahlheimer

Mary Delvina Dahlheimer née Morissette (December 31, 1888^[73] – March 13, 2002)^[74] was an American supercentenarian. Delvina lived alone until entering Guardian Angels Care Center at age 101, where she lived out the rest of her days.^[74] Dahlheimer's Minnesota state record title, 113 years 72 days, was surpassed by Catherine Hagel on February 9, 2008. Incidentally, Hagel was the sister-in-law of Dahlheimer.

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.^[75]

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.^[54][76]

Charlotte Benkner

Charlotte Benkner (née Enterlein; November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004)^{[77][78][79][80]} 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.^[77] The subsequent recognition of María Capovilla of Ecuador in December 2005 moved Benkner down to third place at the time of her death,^[78][79] but she is still the oldest verified German-born person.

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.^[80][81] 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.^[80] She became the oldest recognized person in the United States when 114-year-old Elena Slough died in October 2003.^[55] 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.^[81] 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.^[77][78]

Consuelo Moreno-López

Consuelo Moreno-López (February 5, 1893 – November 13, 2004) was born in Northern Morocco. 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 1955.^[82][83]

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.^[84] She was the oldest living graduate of Drake University, where she was a member of the Class of 1912.^[85]

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, being able to walk up steps and 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.^[84]

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.^[86] 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.^[87]

Bettie Wilson

Bettie Antry Wilson née Rutherford (September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006)^[88] 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.^[88]

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.^[89][90]

Arbella Ewing

Arbella Ewing (née Perkins) (March 13, 1894 – March 22, 2008)^[91][92] 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.^[93]

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.^[93][94][95]

Walter H. Seward

Walter H. Seward on September 16, 2007, less than one month before his 111th birthday and almost exactly a year before his death

Walter Hamilton Seward (October 13, 1896 – September 14, 2008) was ranked as the third-oldest verified man living in the United States, the sixth-oldest man in the world and the verified oldest recognized living person in New Jersey at the time of his death, aged 111 years 337 days.

Seward was raised in Toledo, Ohio, and moved to Vineland, New Jersey, while he was in high school. He was a 1917 graduate of Rutgers University and a 1924 graduate of Harvard Law School. He practiced law through his 90s. Seward died on September 14, 2008 at age 111 years and 11 months from a blood infection that weakened his heart.^[96][97]

George Francis

George Rene Francis (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008)^{[98][99][100]} 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.^[101] 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.^[102]

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.^[98] 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),^[103] 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.^{[103][104][105]}

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.^[106] Harris died on July 25, 2012, aged 111 years and 116 days.^[103]

Mamie Rearden

Mamie Julia Rearden (née Lewis; September 7, 1898 – January 2, 2013)^[107] was an African American supercentenarian who, upon her death at the age of 114 years and 117 days, was the world's 5th oldest living person, the 2nd oldest living American, and the 2nd oldest living person of African descent behind Gertrude Weaver.^[108] Rearden holds the record as the oldest person ever from the state of South Carolina.^[109]

Mamie Julia Lewis grew up in the Pleasant Lane section of Edgefield County, South Carolina. She attended Log Creek Community School and Bettis Academy Junior College, and began her career as a teacher in 1918. In 1919, Rearden married Ocay Rearden, and the couple had eleven children. She was widowed in 1979. When asked how it feels being one of the world's oldest living persons, Rearden replied: "I don't know how it makes me feel. I really don't know."^[110]

Notes

1. Michelson was born in the then Russian Empire, today Russia
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. Steinberg was born in Kishinev, which had then been a part of the Russian Empire; it is now located in Moldova
4. Domingues was born in Cape Verde, which was at that time a Portuguese colony. Now it is an independent country.
5. Michelson was born in the then Russian Empire, today Russia

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