Susannah Mushatt Jones

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Susannah Mushatt Jones (born July 6, 1899 in Lowndes County , Alabama , † May 12, 2016 in New York City , New York ), called Miss Susie , was an American age record holder.

Record holder

From June 17, 2015 until her death at the age of 116 years and 311 days, she was officially recognized as the oldest living person by the Gerontology Research Group and the Guinness Book of Records . In addition, together with the surviving Italian Emma Morano, she was one of the last two people alive who were born before 1900 . In the list of the oldest people she was in sixth position at the time of her death ( as of November 2019: 11th place ) and was the second oldest person from the United States after Sarah Knauss (119 years and 97 days), who died in 1999 .

Life

Susannah Mushatt was born in 1899 as the third of eleven children to a family of tenant farmers in a small town in the US state of Alabama. Her grandparents still lived in slavery . She attended the Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun , Alabama, whose curators at the time included Booker T. Washington . After graduating from high school , she had to give up teacher training at Tuskegee University for financial reasons. She moved first to New Jersey in 1922 and a year later to New York, where she worked as a housekeeper and nanny . Together with others, she founded an education fund there to give black women access to colleges through a scholarship . In 1928 she married Henry Jones, from whom she divorced in 1933. She had been a pensioner since 1965. At the age of 100 she became blind from untreated glaucoma . She died on May 12, 2016 after several days of illness in a nursing home in Brooklyn, New York . Susannah Mushatt Jones remained childless but was related to more than 100 nieces and nephews.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerontology Research Group : Validated Living Supercentenarians ( Memento June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive );
    Kristen Ott: Happy 116th birthday to Susannah Mushatt Jones, our new oldest person record holder. Message on the homepage of the Guinness Book of Records, July 6, 2015 (English, accessed May 16, 2016).
  2. ↑ Chris Boyette, Pilar Melendez: Susannah Mushatt Jones, world's oldest person, dies at 116. Article on CNN , May 14, 2016 (accessed May 15, 2016).
  3. ^ Paul Gallagher: Susannah Mushatt Jones: World's oldest person says that she eats bacon every day. In: The Independent . October 26, 2015 (accessed May 16, 2016).
  4. ^ Associated Press : Susannah Mushatt Jones, world's oldest person, dies at 116. In: The Washington Post . May 14, 2016 (accessed May 16, 2016).
  5. ^ Matt Flegenheimer: A Milestone in Brooklyn: 112 Birthdays. In: The New York Times . July 20, 2011 (accessed May 15, 2016).
  6. ↑ Olivia B. Waxman: Long-Life Secrets From An (Almost) 115 Year Old Woman. In: Time . July 3, 2014 (accessed May 16, 2016).
  7. ↑ Oldest Person In New York Celebrates 114th Birthday. Reported to CBS New York , July 12, 2013 (accessed May 15, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Susannah Mushatt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mushatt, Susannah (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American age record holder
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Lowndes County , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2016
Place of death New York City , New York