S.C. woman, oldest living U.S. citizen, dies at 114
A 114-year-old South Carolina woman who was the oldest living U.S. citizen has died.
Two daughters say Mamie Rearden of Edgefield, who held the title as the oldest person in the country for about two weeks, died Wednesday at a hospital in Georgia.
Sara Rearden of Burtonsville, Md., said Saturday that her mother broke her hip after a fall about three weeks ago.
Robert Young of the Gerontology Research Group said Mamie Rearden's September 1898 birth was recorded in the 1900 U.S. Census. The group, which verifies age information for Guinness World Records, listed Rearden as the oldest living U.S. citizen after last month's passing of 115-year-old Dina Manfredini of Iowa.
Rearden was more than a year younger than the world's oldest person, 115-year-old Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.
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What more need be said?
I think some of them might have taken a relative's identity,
or just gotten confused.
There will be no more 114, 115 year olds because everything is now being documented.
In those days they took the notations in the family bible as fact.
Ha! You can't believe stuff you read in the bible.
But passing the 110 line is hard as ever. No change in that wall. When you pass 110, your days are numbered. I wonder what the medical world's explanation for this is and nobody comments on it. That is, so many 100+ but no changes in 110+.
Well, your days are numbered anyway.