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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.
She lived next door to her older sister Bertha Johnson (August 6, 1904 – February 21, 2011), before Johnson died at the age of 106; [4] she and Francis were among the oldest siblings on record. [5] She had another sister who lived to the age of 95, and her father died when he was 88. [6] Francis raised her daughter as a single mother. [4]
Francis was the third-oldest person in the world at the time of her death. Naomi Whitehead recently became the oldest living person in North America at 114-years-old. St. Paul's Senior Living ...
The Houston resident who held the record of being the oldest-living person in the country has died at 115.. Elizabeth Francis died on Tuesday, Oct. 22, while surrounded by her family ...
A 2016 study on 74,534 female nurses in the US aged between 30 to 55 found those who attended a religious service more than once a week were 33% less likely to die early than women who attended none.
Edith Rose Ceccarelli (née Recagno, formerly Keenan; February 5, 1908 – February 22, 2024) was an American supercentenarian. [1] At age 116 years and 17 days, she was the oldest person living in the United States and was also the second oldest living person in the world after Maria Branyas Morera from Spain.
Houston, Texas resident Elizabeth Francis, who was the oldest known living person in America, died on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at age 115. At the time of her death, the supercentenarian was the third ...