114-year old Mamie Reardon of South Carolina has died. From AP via CBS News…
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.
In digging around Wikipedia I discovered that
only two men are still alive who were born in the 19th Century. See link and scroll down to “Verified Oldest Living Men”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
When I was a boy (the 1950’s) anybody who looked even faintly old had been born in the 19th Century. It’s very weird to think that of those seeming hordes only a handful (and only two men) remain.
I wasn’t able to find how many women still live who were born in the 19th Century. They vastly outnumber men amongst supercentenarians.