World's oldest person, the last American born in the 1800s, dies at age 116

Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, has died in New York at age 116. Jones, who was affectionately known by family and neighbors as Miss Susie, died Thursday night at a public housing facility for seniors in Brooklyn where she had lived for more than three decades, according to Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group. She had been ill for the past 10 days, he said.
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