List of American supercentenarians explained

American supercentenarians are citizens or residents of the United States who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age., the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 782 American supercentenarians. As of, it lists the oldest living American as Elizabeth Francis (born in Houston, Texas, on July 25, 1909), aged . 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.[1] [2]

100 oldest known Americans

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

RankNameSexBirth dateDeath dateAgeBirthplacePlace of death
or residence
1data-sort-value="Knauss" Sarah KnaussSeptember 24, 1880December 30, 1999PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
2data-sort-value="Branyas" Maria BranyasMarch 4, 1907August 19, 2024[3] CaliforniaSpain
3data-sort-value="Welford" Delphia WelfordSeptember 9, 1875November 14, 1992MississippiTennessee
4data-sort-value="Jones, Susannah" Susannah Mushatt JonesJuly 6, 1899May 12, 2016AlabamaNew York
5data-sort-value="Weaver" Gertrude WeaverJuly 4, 1898April 6, 2015nowrap ArkansasArkansas
6data-sort-value="Bolden" Elizabeth BoldenAugust 15, 1890December 11, 2006TennesseeTennessee
7data-sort-value="Cooper" Besse CooperAugust 26, 1896December 4, 2012TennesseeGeorgia
8data-sort-value="Wiggins" Easter WigginsJune 1, 1874July 7, 1990MississippiMississippi
9data-sort-value="Talley" Jeralean TalleyMay 23, 1899June 17, 2015GeorgiaMichigan
10data-sort-value="Ceccarelli" Edith CeccarelliFebruary 5, 1908February 22, 2024[4] California California
11data-sort-value="Miller" Ella MillerDecember 6, 1884November 21, 2000TennesseeVirginia
12data-sort-value="Barnes" Maggie BarnesMarch 6, 1882January 19, 1998North CarolinaNorth Carolina
13data-sort-value="Manfredini" Dina ManfrediniApril 4, 1897December 17, 2012ItalyIowa
14data-sort-value="Mortensen" Christian MortensenAugust 16, 1882April 25, 1998DenmarkCalifornia
15data-sort-value="Ford" Hester FordAugust 15, 1905April 17, 2021[5] South CarolinaNorth Carolina
16data-sort-value="Parker" Edna ParkerApril 20, 1893November 26, 2008IndianaIndiana
17data-sort-value="Skeete" Margaret SkeeteOctober 27, 1878May 7, 1994TexasVirginia
18data-sort-value="Madigan" Bernice MadiganJuly 24, 1899January 3, 2015MassachusettsMassachusetts
19data-sort-value="Baines" Gertrude BainesApril 6, 1894September 11, 2009GeorgiaCalifornia
20data-sort-value="Wilson" Bettie WilsonSeptember 13, 1890February 13, 2006MississippiMississippi
21data-sort-value="Westman" Iris WestmanAugust 28, 1905January 3, 2021[6] North DakotaNorth Dakota
22data-sort-value="Gaudette" Marie-Josephine GaudetteMarch 25, 1902July 13, 2017New HampshireItaly
23data-sort-value="Gibson, Susie" Susie GibsonOctober 31, 1890February 16, 2006MississippiAlabama
data-sort-value="Sutcliffe" Thelma SutcliffeOctober 1, 1906January 17, 2022[7] NebraskaNebraska
25data-sort-value="Kern" Edna KernOctober 14, 1900January 20, 2016CaliforniaNevada
26data-sort-value="Holtz" Augusta HoltzAugust 3, 1871October 21, 1986PrussiaMissouri
27data-sort-value="Hendricks" Bessie HendricksNovember 7, 1907January 3, 2023[8] Iowa Iowa
28data-sort-value="Francis" Elizabeth FrancisJuly 25, 1909LivingLouisianaTexas
29data-sort-value="Farris" Maud Farris-Luse[9] February 21, 1887March 18, 2002MichiganMichigan
30data-sort-value="Rivera" Antonia Gerena RiveraMay 19, 1900June 2, 2015Puerto RicoFlorida
31data-sort-value="Bidwell" Mary Bidwell[10] May 9, 1881April 25, 1996ConnecticutConnecticut
32data-sort-value="Plummer" Hazel PlummerJune 19, 1908May 25, 2023[11] Massachusetts Massachusetts
33data-sort-value="Burks" Ophelia BurksOctober 25, 1903September 27, 2018LouisianaLouisiana
34data-sort-value="Ray" Mary Josephine RayMay 17, 1895March 7, 2010CanadaNew Hampshire
35data-sort-value="Steinberg" Goldie SteinbergOctober 30, 1900August 16, 2015MoldovaNew York
36data-sort-value="Gibson, Delphine" Delphine GibsonAugust 17, 1903May 9, 2018South CarolinaPennsylvania
37data-sort-value="Royster" Mary Royster[12] April 15, 1875December 28, 1989VirginiaNorth Carolina
38data-sort-value="Morris" Neva MorrisAugust 3, 1895April 6, 2010IowaIowa
39data-sort-value="Cobb" Blanche CobbSeptember 8, 1900May 1, 2015GeorgiaFlorida
40data-sort-value="Mangold" Mila MangoldNovember 14, 1907July 2, 2022[13] Nebraska California
41data-sort-value="Dorsey" Myrtle Dorsey[14] November 20, 1885June 25, 2000OhioOhio
42data-sort-value="Lazenby" Carrie Lazenby[15] February 9, 1882September 4, 1996GeorgiaIllinois
43data-sort-value="Breuning" Walter BreuningSeptember 21, 1896April 14, 2011MinnesotaMontana
44data-sort-value="Sanborn" Eunice SanbornJuly 20, 1896January 31, 2011LouisianaTexas
45data-sort-value="Clawson" Grace ClawsonNovember 15, 1887May 28, 2002United KingdomNew York
46data-sort-value="Kott" Wilhelmina KottMarch 7, 1880September 6, 1994IllinoisIllinois
data-sort-value="Domingues" Adelina DominguesFebruary 19, 1888August 21, 2002Cape VerdeCalifornia
48data-sort-value="Mirigian" Lucy MirigianAugust 15, 1906February 12, 2021ArmeniaCalifornia
49data-sort-value="Benkner" Charlotte BenknerNovember 16, 1889May 14, 2004GermanyOhio
50data-sort-value="Greene" Ettie Mae Greene[16] September 19, 1877February 26, 1992West VirginiaWest Virginia
51data-sort-value="Velasco" Dominga VelascoMay 12, 1901October 11, 2015MexicoCalifornia
52data-sort-value="Frank" Irene FrankOctober 1, 1881February 28, 1996TexasMissouri
53data-sort-value="Jordan" Georgia Ella JordanSeptember 18, 1880February 9, 1995GeorgiaVirginia
54data-sort-value="Thomas, Olivia" Olivia Patricia ThomasJune 29, 1895November 16, 2009IowaNew York
data-sort-value="Murphy" Alelia MurphyJuly 6, 1905November 23, 2019North CarolinaNew York
56data-sort-value="Dunham" Irene DunhamDecember 16, 1907May 1, 2022[17] Michigan Michigan
57data-sort-value="Willis" Nina WillisJanuary 14, 1909May 17, 2023[18] GeorgiaGeorgia
data-sort-value="Berg" Pearl BergOctober 1, 1909February 1, 2024[19] IndianaCalifornia
59data-sort-value="Henderson" Anna HendersonMarch 5, 1900July 1, 2014GeorgiaPennsylvania
60data-sort-value="Johnston" Emma Verona JohnstonAugust 6, 1890December 1, 2004IowaOhio
data-sort-value="Rearden" Mamie ReardenSeptember 7, 1898January 2, 2013South CarolinaGeorgia
data-sort-value="Zahn" Erna ZahnApril 14, 1908August 9, 2022[20] WisconsinMinnesota
63data-sort-value="Chatmon" Bettie ChatmonApril 30, 1884August 16, 1998LouisianaTexas
data-sort-value="Brown" Lessie BrownSeptember 22, 1904January 8, 2019GeorgiaOhio
65data-sort-value="Matthews" Odie MatthewsDecember 28, 1878April 14, 1993TexasArizona
66data-sort-value="Knapp" Florence KnappOctober 10, 1873January 11, 1988PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
data-sort-value="Slough" Elena SloughJuly 4, 1889October 5, 2003PennsylvaniaNew Jersey
68data-sort-value="Boone" Mary Anna BooneFebruary 10, 1887May 13, 2001KentuckyKentucky
69data-sort-value="Whicker" Minnie WhickerJuly 24, 1906October 22, 2020ArkansasCalifornia
70data-sort-value="Kollar" Delma KollarOctober 31, 1897January 24, 2012KansasOregon
71data-sort-value="Jones, Ila" Ila JonesAugust 21, 1903November 10, 2017GeorgiaGeorgia
72data-sort-value="Renfro" Maggie RenfroNovember 14, 1895January 22, 2010LouisianaLouisiana
73data-sort-value="Tillman" Emma TillmanNovember 22, 1892January 28, 2007North CarolinaConnecticut
data-sort-value="Stoehr" Anna StoehrOctober 15, 1900December 21, 2014IowaMinnesota
75data-sort-value="Denmark" Leila DenmarkFebruary 1, 1898April 1, 2012GeorgiaGeorgia
76data-sort-value="Dunlap" Adele DunlapDecember 12, 1902February 5, 2017[21] New JerseyNew Jersey
77data-sort-value="Conner" Naomi ConnerAugust 30, 1899October 18, 2013TexasTexas
data-sort-value="Holland" Ora HollandDecember 24, 1900February 11, 2015MissouriOklahoma
79data-sort-value="Hatton" Katie Hatton[22] December 18, 1877January 24, 1992TexasTexas
80data-sort-value="Goodwill" Ellen GoodwillFebruary 2, 1907March 2, 2021[23] KentuckyMichigan
81data-sort-value="Thaxton" Grace ThaxtonJune 18, 1891July 6, 2005New YorkKentucky
82data-sort-value="Mexia" Soledad MexiaAugust 13, 1899August 30, 2013MexicoCalifornia
83data-sort-value="Ward" Minnie WardNovember 19, 1885December 2, 1999TennesseeMassachusetts
84data-sort-value="Ewing" Arbella EwingMarch 13, 1894March 22, 2008TexasTexas
85data-sort-value="Hagel" Catherine HagelNovember 28, 1894December 6, 2008MinnesotaMinnesota
86data-sort-value="Otis" Emma OtisOctober 22, 1901October 25, 2015WashingtonWashington
87data-sort-value="Jurick" Ellen JurickJuly 15, 1895July 13, 2009PennsylvaniaMichigan
88data-sort-value="Hale" Fred Harold HaleDecember 1, 1890November 19, 2004MaineNew York
89data-sort-value="Carpelan" Miriam CarpelanJuly 8, 1882June 22, 1996United KingdomCalifornia
data-sort-value="Thompson" Elsie ThompsonApril 5, 1899March 21, 2013PennsylvaniaFlorida
91data-sort-value="Fry" Bertha FryDecember 1, 1893November 14, 2007IndianaIndiana
92data-sort-value="Harrington" Mae HarringtonJanuary 20, 1889December 29, 2002New YorkNew York
93data-sort-value="Thomas, Ellen" Ellen Thomas[24] December 25, 1877December 2, 1991TennesseeMichigan
data-sort-value="Bailey" Daisey BaileyMarch 30, 1896March 7, 2010TennesseeMichigan
95data-sort-value="Mitchell" Agatha MitchellMarch 26, 1887February 25, 2001VirginiaVirginia
96data-sort-value="Michelson" Goldie MichelsonAugust 8, 1902July 8, 2016UkraineMassachusetts
97data-sort-value="Barwis" Merle BarwisDecember 23, 1900November 22, 2014IowaCanada
98data-sort-value="Whitehead" Naomi WhiteheadSeptember 26, 1910LivingGeorgiaPennsylvania
99data-sort-value="Posey" Louvenia PoseyApril 6, 1900March 1, 2014TexasTexas
100data-sort-value="Huhn" Clara HuhnJanuary 28, 1887December 20, 2000NebraskaCalifornia
data-sort-value="Meloche" Beulah MelocheDecember 5, 1906October 27, 2020New YorkNew York

Biographies

Mary Bidwell

Mary Electa Bidwell (May 9, 1881 – April 25, 1996)[10] was an American supercentenarian. She died aged 114 years and 352 days and is the oldest person on record ever to die in Connecticut.[25] [26] [27]

Her parents were Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel.[26] 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.[25] 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.[27]

Maggie Barnes

Maggie Pauline Barnes (née Hinnant; March 6, 1882 – January 19, 1998)[28] 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.[29]

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.[29] 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.[30] Domingues was born in Cape Verde. Domingues's Italian father was a harbor pilot by profession, and her mother was Portuguese by ethnicity.[31] She married a ship captain in 1907, and moved to the United States that year.[31] Her husband died from cancer in 1950.[31] 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.[31]

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.[31] She had four children, but only one of them (a son, Frank) reached adulthood.[31] Frank died in 1998 at the age of 71, with Adelina outliving him by four years.[31] Domingues died at a nursing home in the San Diego, California, area on August 21, 2002, at age 114 years and 183 days.[31] 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.

Charlotte Benkner

Charlotte Benkner (née Enterlein; November 16, 1889 – May 14, 2004)[32] [33] was an American supercentenarian and considered the world's oldest person from 2003 to 2004.[34] Subsequent recognition of other supercentenarians ranked Benkner as the third oldest at the time of her death.

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.[35] 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.[36] Tillie died in January 2004, just three weeks shy of becoming a centenarian.[35] 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.[37] 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;[38] [39] at the time of her death, she was the university's oldest living graduate.[40]

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. She became the oldest known living American in May 2004. Three months later, on the occasion of her 114th birthday, she was presented with a proclamation signed by then Drake University President David Maxwell.[41] The university's Vice President for Institutional Advancement, John Willey, nominated her for an honorary degree.[39] Johnston died in Worthington, Ohio, on December 1, 2004, at age 114 years and 117 days.

Bettie Wilson

Bettie Antry Wilson (née Rutherford; September 13, 1890 – February 13, 2006)[42] was thought to be the oldest living person in the United States from December 2004 until the subsequent verification of Elizabeth Bolden. 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.[43]

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.[42]

Fred Harold Hale

Frederick Harold Hale, Sr. (December 1, 1890 – November 19, 2004) was born in New Sharon, Maine. He married Flora Mooers (d. 1979) in 1910, and had five children, three of which he outlived.[44] Throughout his life, he worked as a railroad worker and a beekeeper, before retiring to pursue gardening and canning produce. At the age of 95, he surfed for the first time in Hawaii, while on his way back to the U.S. from visiting his grandson in Japan.[45] He was recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest driver in the world at the age of 104, and he continued driving until age 108. At 109, he moved to the Syracuse area in New York State. A lifelong fan of the Boston Red Sox, he was alive to see both their 1918 and 2004 World Series victories.

On March 5, 2004, upon the death of 114-year-old Joan Riudavets of Spain, Hale became the world's oldest living man. He died on November 19, 12 days before his 114th birthday, and was succeeded as the world's oldest man by Emiliano Mercado del Toro.

George Francis

George Rene Francis (June 6, 1896 – December 27, 2008)[46] [47] [48] 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.[49] 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.[50]

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 100lb). Despite this, he later was a boxer before becoming a barber and then a chauffeur.

Bernice Madigan

Bernice Madigan (née Emerson; July 24, 1899 – January 3, 2015) was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts,[51] [52] and moved to Cheshire when she was six.[53] In 1918, after graduating from Adams High School,[53] [54] she responded to government drives to recruit women into employment during WWI, and moved to Washington, D.C.[51] After the war, she worked as a secretary for the Department of the Treasury and the Veterans Administration.[55] She married Paul Madigan (d. 1976) in 1925;[55] they lived in the Washington, D.C., area and then in Silver Spring, Maryland.[53] She retired in 1942, after which she volunteered with the church and at nursing homes, playing piano for residents.[53] She returned to live with family in Massachusetts in 2007.[55] She participated in Boston University School of Medicine's New England Centenarian Study,[56] and was interviewed and filmed by the Center for Aging at the University of Chicago and the ABC World News.[56] She is one of 100 centenarians in The Archon Genomics XPRIZE.[57] [58] She joined social media, with profiles on Facebook and Twitter.[55] [59] [60] Madigan died in her sleep at the age of 115 years and 163 days at 2 a.m. on January 3, 2015.[52] [60] At the time of her death, she was the oldest living resident of Massachusetts,[61] the fourth-oldest living person in the United States[62] and the world's fifth-oldest living person.[62] [63]

Evelyn Kozak

Eva Chavka Rivka "Evelyn" Kozak (née Jacobson) (August 14, 1899 – June 11, 2013)[64] [65] was an American Jewish supercentenarian,[66] [67] [68] [69] 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 - 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).

Delphia Welford

Delphia S. Welford (September 9, 1875November 14, 1992) was an American supercentenarian claimed to have been born on September 9, 1881; however, research conducted by the Gerontology Research Group between 2016 and 2023 determined that she was actually born in 1875, and that she was born in Okolona, Mississippi.

Welford's parents were Richard and Heddie Welford. The family moved to Humboldt, Tennessee, when she was still a child. She had one son, Leo Mathis, in the late 1890s. Welford never married and spent the rest of her life in Humboldt. She was a homemaker and a member of the Lane Chapel C.M.E Church.

Welford died at Parkview Manor Health Care Center in Humboldt, on November 14, 1992, at the age of 117 years, 66 days. She had been the oldest person ever from the United States after surpassing the age of Easter Wiggins on October 16, 1991. Welford would continue to hold this distinction until November 30, 1997, when Sarah Knauss lived past her final age. She is the oldest person to never have been the world’s oldest living person, as Jeanne Calment was still alive when she died.

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