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World's Oldest Person Dies

December 12th 2006 07:42
CNN reports that Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden, recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest living person at 116, died yesterday in the nursing home where she lived. She was born in 1890 in Somerville, Tennessee, the daughter of freed slaves.

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John Louis 'Jack' Bolden, age 74, with his grandmother, Elizabeth Bolden.
Family members said she had 40 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren, 150 great-great-grandchildren, 220 great-great-great grandchildren and 75 great-great-great-great grandchildren.







The oldest documented and fully validated person ever was Jeanne Calment who died in 1997 at the age of 122.



*This image is used here under fair use. It came from the Wikipedia page for Elizabeth Bolden

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