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There are no living Americans born in the 1800s as of today.
There are now two American centuries that do not have representatives in the population any more. What a sad day. No more discussions of the Civil War or rolling hoops on sticks. No more memories of driving Conestoga wagons westward or Grover Cleveland or the Underground Railroad. An era has ended.
However, given her family's proclivity to procreate, I suspect that all of humanity will have some of her genetic code within 100 years. http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/13/living...ies/index.html (CNN) Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, has died in New York, a Guinness World Records spokesman confirmed Friday. She was 116. Jones, who attributed her longevity to sleep, clean living and positive energy, died at 8:26 p.m. Thursday after being ill and in and out of the hospital for 10 days, said her niece, Dr. Lavilla Watson. She died in her sleep. Jones was the last American born in the 1800s, according to Robert Young, senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records and director of the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group's Supercentenarian Research and Database Division. The presumptive oldest person in the world is Emma Morano of Italy, who was born on November 29, 1899, according to Young. The oldest man is Israel Kristal of Israel, who is 112. Jones was born on July 6, 1899, in Lowndes County, Alabama, and her life spanned three centuries, according to Guinness World Records. Her father was a sharecropper who supported his family by picking cotton. The Brooklyn, New York, woman lived through 20 U.S. presidents, two world wars and the birth of the automobile, the airplane, TV and the Internet. Guinness officially recognized Jones as the oldest recorded person on the planet last year after 116-year-old Jeralean Talley died in suburban Detroit. The oldest living person ever recorded was Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997 at 122. Jones attended the Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama, where Booker T. Washington was an original member of the school's board of trustees, according to the New York City Housing Authority. In 1923, Jones moved north to New York, where she worked as a live-in housekeeper and child-care provider. Jones said she was determined to give the first-born girl in her family the gift of a college education. Despite her $50 weekly salary, she said she single-handedly put her first three nieces through college. The third oldest of 10 children, Jones had 100 nieces and nephews. Jones had said she did not smoke or drink and cited loving relationships as a secret to her longevity. "I surround myself with love and positive energy," she told the New York City Housing Authority in 2005. "That's the key to long life and happiness." |
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Was she still ****ing into her hundreds?
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I'm 37 and I LOVE old people. Listening to their stories is like a living history lesson.
I'll never forget George Baker, who was my neighbor when I was a kid. He was 100 years old in 1995, if I'm not mistaken. He fought in the trenches of World War 1 and used to tell us stories about it. I remember sitting there transfixed listening to him. Good times.
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Cleaned it up. Talked mostly about how cold, wet and LOUD it was. Also, he described in great detail his rifle.
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Odd to think about. We're all just pawns living out a minuscule time-frame in the universe. I can't imagine Chiefsplanet 100 years from now .
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She lived to see America elect a black president, but died before we could elect an orange president.
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When she was born, the world's tallest building was the Eiffel Tower. Or structure... if you want a true building, it was this church in Germany at 530 feet tall... (not bad for something that was built in the 1300s)
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When she was born, William McKinley was president, the population of the US was 75 million, and there were 45 states.
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And yet Alex Smith lives
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