– The world’s oldest person has been announced dead – The announcement was made by a research group in New York – Susannah Mushatt was aged 116 when she died – Her death came after 10 days of ill health A research group in New York on Friday, May 13, has said that the world’s oldest living person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones is dead. According to Robert Young, senior consultant for the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group said Jones died on the night of Thursday, May 12. She died at a public housing facility for seniors in Brooklyn where she had lived for more than three decades. Young said she had been ill for the past 10 days and finally died afterwards. The senior consultant disclosed that Jones’ death makes Emma Morano-Martinuzzi, a 116-year-old woman in Italy, the oldest living person. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Susannah Mushatt Jones died aged 116 Young describe Jones, who was born in the southern U.S. state of Alabama in 1899, as the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves. Young, whose group tracks and maintains a database of the world’s longest-living people, said Jones was the very last American from the 1800s. He said 116-year-old Emma Morano, of Verbania, Italy, just a few months younger than Jones, is now the unofficial world’s oldest person. Young said after she moved to New York, Jones worked with a group of her fellow high school graduates to start a scholarship fund for young African-American women to go to college. READ ALSO: You won’t believe these 10 mothers actually exist! He said she also was active in her public housing building’s tenant patrol until she was 106. Guinness World Records and the Vandalia Senior Centre in Brooklyn, where she lived disclosed that after graduating from high school she moved north in 1922 to New Jersey and then New York, where she worked as a housekeeper and childcare provider. It disclosed that Jones became Guinness World Records’ official oldest person when 117-year-old Misao Okawa died in Tokyo last year. Guinness World Records said Jones, who retired in 1965, had said that lots of sleep is the secret to her longevity and that she had never smoked or drank alcohol. Lois Judge said of her aunt in a interview that she adored kids, but Jones never had any children of her own and was married for only a few years. Family members said that they credited her long life to love of family and generosity to others. Meanwhile, there are claims that the oldest person in the world might actually be a Nigerian. This claims come following the discovery of a certain woman named Mama Esifiho, who allegedly is 191 years old. According to her great great grandson Mr Avuefeyen, Esifiho who is allegedly 2 centuries old lives in Ellu, (Edhemoko, Akaluba street, Ellu in INLG) Delta state.
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