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Whitehead was born September 26, 1910 of African American descent in rural Georgia to Douglas and Pauline Washington, where she grew up on a farm picking cotton and tobacco. [2] She lived in Patterson, Georgia, in her youth with her older siblings Douglas, Clarence, Ellen, and Viola. [3] Her husband died in the 1980s.
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. [44] Domingues was born in Cape Verde.
Ricardo López (1996), Uruguayan-born American stalker who attempted to kill Icelandic singer Björk by sending a letter bomb, gunshot [787] Lu Xiufu (1279), Chinese statesman, bureaucrat and general, murder-suicide by drowning Emperor Bing of Song and himself [788] Lu Zhaolin (684 or 686), Chinese poet, drowning in the Ying River [789]
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Now, America's oldest living person is Naomi Whitehead, who is 144 years old and was born on Sept. 26, 1910. This article originally appeared on Shreveport Times: Elizabeth Francis, America's ...
Elizabeth Francis, a Black woman from Texas who was the oldest known living person in the U.S., has died. She was 115. Her 69-year-old granddaughter, Ethel Harrison, told ABC News her grandmother ...
Christine Chubbuck was born in Hudson, Ohio, the daughter of Margretha D. "Peg" (1921–1994) and George Fairbanks Chubbuck (1918–2015). She had two brothers, Greg and Tim. [ 4 ] Chubbuck attended the Laurel School for Girls in Shaker Heights , a suburb of Cleveland .
A 114-year-old woman is now the oldest living American. She says 3 things have helped her live so long. ... Born in Georgia on 26 September, 1910, ... died last month at the age of 115.