List of American supercentenarians
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 27, 2024, it lists the oldest living American-born person as Spanish emigrant María Branyas Morera (born in San Francisco, California on March 4, 1907), aged 117 years, 176 days. The oldest American resident is listed as Bessie Hendricks (born in Carroll County, Iowa on November 7, 1907), aged 116 years, 294 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 |
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1 | Sarah Knauss[1] | F | September 24, 1880 | December 30, 1999 | 119 years, 97 days | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania |
2 | Susannah Mushatt Jones[5] | F | July 6, 1899 | May 12, 2016 | 116 years, 311 days | Alabama | New York |
3 | Gertrude Weaver[5] | F | July 4, 1898 | April 6, 2015 | 116 years, 276 days | Arkansas | Arkansas |
4 | Elizabeth Bolden[1] | F | August 15, 1890 | December 11, 2006 | 116 years, 118 days | Tennessee | Tennessee |
5 | Besse Cooper[5] | F | August 26, 1896 | December 4, 2012 | 116 years, 100 days | Tennessee | Georgia |
6 | Jeralean Talley[5] | F | May 23, 1899 | June 17, 2015 | 116 years, 25 days | Georgia | Michigan |
7 | Maggie Barnes[1][a] | F | March 6, 1882 | January 19, 1998 | 115 years, 319 days | North Carolina | North Carolina |
8 | Dina Manfredini[5] | F | April 4, 1897 | December 17, 2012 | 115 years, 257 days | Italy | Iowa |
9 | Christian Mortensen[1] | M | August 16, 1882 | April 25, 1998 | 115 years, 252 days | Denmark | California |
10 | Hester Ford[5] | F | August 15, 1905 | April 17, 2021[6] | 115 years, 245 days | South Carolina | North Carolina |
María Branyas Morera[2] | F | March 4, 1907 | Living | 117 years, 176 days | California | Spain | |
12 | Edna Parker[5] | F | April 20, 1893 | November 26, 2008 | 115 years, 220 days | Indiana | Indiana |
13 | Margaret Skeete[1] | F | October 27, 1878 | May 7, 1994 | 115 years, 192 days | Texas | Virginia |
14 | Bernice Madigan[5] | F | July 24, 1899 | January 3, 2015 | 115 years, 163 days | Massachusetts | Massachusetts |
15 | Gertrude Baines[5] | F | April 6, 1894 | September 11, 2009 | 115 years, 158 days | Georgia | California |
16 | Bettie Wilson[1] | F | September 13, 1890 | February 13, 2006 | 115 years, 153 days | Mississippi | Mississippi |
17 | Iris Westman[5] | F | August 28, 1905 | January 3, 2021[7] | 115 years, 128 days | North Dakota | North Dakota |
18 | Marie Josephine Gaudette, aka Mother Cecilia[5] |
F | March 25, 1902 | July 13, 2017 | 115 years, 110 days | New Hampshire | Italy |
19 | 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[8] | Nebraska | Nebraska | ||
21 | Augusta Holtz[1] | F | August 3, 1871 | October 21, 1986 | 115 years, 79 days | Prussia[b] | Missouri |
22 | Maude Farris-Luse[1] | F | January 21, 1887 | March 18, 2002 | 115 years, 56 days | Michigan | Michigan |
23 | Antonia Gerena Rivera[5] | F | May 19, 1900 | June 2, 2015 | 115 years, 14 days | Puerto Rico[c] | Florida |
24 | Bessie Hendricks[2] | F | November 7, 1907 | Living | 116 years, 294 days | Iowa | Iowa |
25 | Mary Bidwell[1] | F | May 19, 1881 | April 25, 1996 | 114 years, 342 days | Connecticut | Connecticut |
26 | Mary Josephine Ray[5] | F | May 17, 1895 | March 7, 2010 | 114 years, 294 days | Canada | New Hampshire |
27 | Goldie Steinberg[5] | F | October 30, 1900 | August 16, 2015 | 114 years, 290 days | Moldova[d] | New York |
28 | Edie Ceccarelli[2] | F | February 5, 1908 | Living | 116 years, 204 days | California | California |
29 | Delphine Gibson[5] | F | August 17, 1903 | May 9, 2018 | 114 years, 265 days | South Carolina | Pennsylvania |
30 | Neva Morris[5] | F | August 3, 1895 | April 6, 2010 | 114 years, 246 days | Iowa | Iowa |
31 | Blanche Cobb[5] | F | September 8, 1900 | May 1, 2015 | 114 years, 235 days | Georgia | Florida |
32 | Mila Mangold[5] | F | November 14, 1907 | July 2, 2022[10] | 114 years, 230 days | Nebraska | California |
33 | Mathew Beard[1] | M | July 9, 1870 | February 16, 1985 | 114 years, 222 days | Virginia | Florida |
34 | Carrie Lazenby[1] | F | February 9, 1882 | September 14, 1996 | 114 years, 218 days | Georgia | Illinois |
35 | Myrtle Dorsey[1] | F | November 22, 1885 | June 25, 2000 | 114 years, 216 days | Ohio | Ohio |
36 | Walter Breuning[5] | M | September 21, 1896 | April 14, 2011 | 114 years, 205 days | Minnesota | Montana |
37 | Eunice Sanborn[5] | F | July 20, 1896 | January 31, 2011 | 114 years, 195 days | Louisiana | Texas |
38 | Grace Clawson[1] | F | November 15, 1887 | May 28, 2002 | 114 years, 194 days | United Kingdom | New York |
39 | 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 | ||
41 | Lucy Mirigian[5] | F | August 15, 1906 | February 12, 2021 | 114 years, 181 days | Armenia[f] | California |
42 | Charlotte Benkner[1] | F | November 16, 1889 | May 14, 2004 | 114 years, 180 days | Germany | Ohio |
43 | Ettie Mae Greene[1] | F | September 8, 1877 | February 26, 1992 | 114 years, 171 days | West Virginia | West Virginia |
44 | Dominga Velasco[5] | F | May 12, 1901 | October 11, 2015 | 114 years, 152 days | Mexico | California |
45 | Irene Frank[1] | F | October 1, 1881 | February 28, 1996 | 114 years, 150 days | Texas | Missouri |
46 | 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 | ||
48 | Hazel Plummer[2] | F | June 19, 1908 | Living | 116 years, 69 days | Massachusetts | Massachusetts |
49 | Irene Dunham[5] | F | December 16, 1907 | May 1, 2022[11] | 114 years, 136 days | Michigan | Michigan |
50 | Anna Henderson[5] | F | March 5, 1900 | July 1, 2014 | 114 years, 118 days | Georgia | Pennsylvania |
51 | 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[12] | Wisconsin | Minnesota | ||
54 | 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 | ||
56 | Odie Matthews[1] | F | December 28, 1878 | April 14, 1993 | 114 years, 107 days | Texas | Arizona |
57 | 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 | ||
59 | Mary Anna Boone[1] | F | February 10, 1887 | May 13, 2001 | 114 years, 92 days | Kentucky | Kentucky |
60 | Minnie Whicker[5] | F | July 24, 1906 | October 22, 2020 | 114 years, 90 days | Arkansas | California |
61 | Delma Kollar[5] | F | October 31, 1897 | January 24, 2012 | 114 years, 85 days | Kansas | Oregon |
62 | Ila Jones[5] | F | August 21, 1903 | November 10, 2017 | 114 years, 81 days | Georgia | Georgia |
63 | Maggie Renfro[5] | F | November 14, 1895 | January 22, 2010 | 114 years, 69 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
64 | 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 | ||
66 | Leila Denmark[5] | F | February 1, 1898 | April 1, 2012 | 114 years, 60 days | Georgia | Georgia |
67 | Adele Dunlap[1] | F | December 12, 1902 | February 5, 2017[13] | 114 years, 55 days | New Jersey | New Jersey |
68 | 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 | ||
70 | Ellen Goodwill[5] | F | February 2, 1907 | March 2, 2021[14] | 114 years, 28 days | Kentucky | Michigan |
71 | Grace Thaxton[1] | F | June 18, 1891 | July 6, 2005 | 114 years, 18 days | New York | Kentucky |
72 | Soledad Mexia[1] | F | August 13, 1899 | August 30, 2013 | 114 years, 17 days | Mexico | California |
73 | Minnie Ward[1] | F | November 19, 1885 | December 2, 1999 | 114 years, 13 days | Tennessee | Massachusetts |
74 | Arbella Ewing[5] | F | March 13, 1894 | March 22, 2008 | 114 years, 9 days | Texas | Texas |
75 | Catherine Hagel[5] | F | November 28, 1894 | December 6, 2008 | 114 years, 8 days | Minnesota | Minnesota |
76 | Emma Otis[5] | F | October 22, 1901 | October 25, 2015 | 114 years, 3 days | Washington | Washington |
77 | Fred Hale[1] | M | December 1, 1890 | November 19, 2004 | 113 years, 354 days | Maine | New York |
78 | 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 | ||
80 | Bertha Fry[1] | F | December 1, 1893 | November 14, 2007 | 113 years, 348 days | Indiana | Indiana |
81 | Mae Harrington[1] | F | January 20, 1889 | December 29, 2002 | 113 years, 343 days | New York | New York |
82 | Daisey Bailey[5] | F | March 30, 1896 | March 7, 2010 | 113 years, 342 days | Tennessee | Michigan |
83 | Agatha Mitchell[1] | F | March 26, 1887 | February 25, 2001 | 113 years, 336 days | Virginia | Virginia |
84 | Goldie Michelson[5] | F | August 8, 1902 | July 8, 2016 | 113 years, 335 days | Ukraine[g] | Massachusetts |
85 | Merle Barwis[5] | F | December 23, 1900 | November 22, 2014 | 113 years, 334 days | Iowa | Canada |
86 | 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 | ||
88 | Corinne Dixon Taylor[1] | F | April 2, 1893 | February 14, 2007 | 113 years, 318 days | District of Columbia | District of Columbia |
89 | Mary Christian[1] | F | June 12, 1889 | April 20, 2003 | 113 years, 312 days | Massachusetts | California |
90 | Florence Carroll[5] | F | June 9, 1907 | April 15, 2021 | 113 years, 310 days | New York | Connecticut |
91 | Ruth Newman[5] | F | September 23, 1901 | July 29, 2015 | 113 years, 309 days | California | California |
92 | Irene Dutton[5] | F | July 16, 1906 | May 15, 2020 | 113 years, 304 days | Michigan | Michigan |
Barbara Barton[15] | F | October 12, 1908 | August 12, 2022[16] | Rhode Island | Rhode Island | ||
94 | Evelyn Kozak[1] | F | August 14, 1899 | June 11, 2013 | 113 years, 301 days | New York | New York |
95 | Louisiana Hines[1] | F | April 13, 1899 | February 1, 2013 | 113 years, 294 days | Alabama | Michigan |
96 | Mississippi Wynn[5] | F | March 31, 1897 | January 14, 2011 | 113 years, 289 days | Louisiana | Louisiana |
97 | Fannie Thomas[1] | F | April 14, 1867 | January 22, 1981 | 113 years, 283 days | Illinois | California |
98 | Opal Thompson[5] | F | January 13, 1901 | October 20, 2014 | 113 years, 280 days | Oklahoma | California |
99 | Johnson Parks[1] | M | October 15, 1884 | July 17, 1998 | 113 years, 275 days | Georgia | Florida |
100 | Mary Parr[1] | F | January 29, 1889 | October 29, 2002 | 113 years, 273 days | Indiana | Florida |
Biographies
Ann Pouder
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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.[17] 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 98 more years, 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.[18] She was bedridden, blind and almost deaf in her last few months, but her mind remained sharp.[19]
Mary Bidwell
Mary Electa Bidwell (May 19, 1881 – April 25, 1996)[20] was an American supercentenarian. She died aged 114 years and 342 days and is the oldest person on record ever to die in Connecticut.[21][22][23]
Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel.[22] 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.[21] 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.[20][23]
Maggie Barnes
Maggie Pauline Barnes (née Hinnant; March 6, 1882 – January 19, 1998)[24] 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.[25] She was survived by four of her fifteen children.[25]
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.[25] 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 May 28, 2002 death of fellow 114-year-old British born, American woman Grace Clawson, until her own death less than three months later.[26] Domingues was born in Cape Verde. Domingues's Italian father was a harbor pilot by profession, and her mother was Portuguese by ethnicity.[27] She married a ship captain in 1907, and moved to the United States that year.[27] Her husband died from cancer in 1950.[27] 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.[27]
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.[27] She had four children, but only one of them (a son, Frank) reached adulthood.[27] Frank died in 1998 at the age of 71, with Adelina outliving him by four years.[27] Domingues died at a nursing home in the San Diego, California, area on August 21, 2002, at age 114 years and 183 days.[27] 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.[28]
Charlotte Benkner
Charlotte Benkner (née Enterlein; November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004)[29][30][31][32] was an American supercentenarian and considered the world's oldest person from 2003 to 2004.[33][29][30] Subsequent recognition of other supercentenarians ranked Benkner as the third oldest at the time of her death.[31]
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.[32][34] 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.[32] Tillie died in January 2004, just three weeks shy of becoming a centenarian.[34] 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.[35] 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;[36][37][38] at the time of her death, she was the university's oldest living graduate.[36]
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.[36] She became the oldest known living American in May 2004.[35] Three months later, on the occasion of her 114th birthday, she was presented with a proclamation signed by then Drake University President David Maxwell.[39] The university's Vice President for Institutional Advancement, John Willey, nominated her for an honorary degree.[38] Johnston died in Worthington, Ohio on December 1, 2004,[35] at age 114 years and 117 days.
Bettie Wilson
Bettie Antry Wilson (née Rutherford; September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006)[40] 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.[41]
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.[40]
George Francis
George Rene Francis (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008)[42][43][44] 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.[45] 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.[46]
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.[42]
Bernice Madigan
Bernice Madigan (née Emerson; July 24, 1899 – January 3, 2015) was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts,[5][47][48] and moved to Cheshire when she was six.[49] In 1918, after graduating from Adams High School,[49][50] she responded to government drives to recruit women into employment during WWI, and moved to Washington, DC.[47] After the war, she worked as a secretary for the Department of the Treasury and the Veterans Administration.[51] She married Paul Madigan (d. 1976) in 1925;[51] they lived in the Washington, DC area and then in Silver Spring, Maryland.[49] She retired in 1942, after which she volunteered with the church and at nursing homes, playing piano for residents.[49] She returned to live with family in Massachusetts in 2007.[51] She participated in Boston University School of Medicine's New England Centenarian Study,[52] and was interviewed and filmed by the Center for Aging at the University of Chicago and the ABC World News.[52] She is one of 100 centenarians in The Archon Genomics XPRIZE.[53][54] She joined social media, with profiles on Facebook and Twitter.[51][55][56] Madigan died in her sleep at the age of 115 years and 163 days at 2 a.m. on January 3, 2015.[48][56] At the time of her death, she was the oldest living resident of Massachusetts,[57] the fourth-oldest living person in the United States[58] and the world's fifth-oldest living person.[58][59]
Notes
- ^ 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 25 April 1898 are United States citizens.[9]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mirigian was born in Armenia, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
- ^ Michelson was born in Elizabethgrad, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. It is now part of Ukraine.
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