Elizabeth Jones Bolden, The world’s oldest person died
Category: Family, Health, Lifestyle
Elizabeth Jones Bolden, or famous with a nickname Momma Lizzie, was born on August 15,1890, Somerville, Tennessee, USA. According to Guinness World Records, Elizabeth Jones Bolden officially recognized as the oldest woman in the world August 2005 shortly after her 115th birthday, and after the death of Maria Esther de Capovilla of Ecuador, who also was 116. That recognition was authenticated using Census records. Elizabeth “Lizzy” Bolden, who lived all of her life in Tennessee, died at the Mid-South Health and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home where she had been living for several years, said the center’s administrator, Charlotte Pierce, she died at 2 a.m. Monday (11 Dec. 06)Â morning at the age 116 years and 118 days
Mrs Bolden was a daughter of freed slaves, she married Lewis Bolden circa 1908 and their first child, a son, Ezell, was born on September 21, 1909. She had seven children in total, only two of whom were still alive as of 2006: “Queen” Esther Rhodes, 89, and Mamie Brittmon, 86. At the time of her 116th birthday in August 2006, Lizzie had 40 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren, 150 great-great-grandchildren, 220 great-great-great grandchildren and 75 great-great-great-great grandchildren. She was widowed in the 1950s. She suffered a stroke in 2004 and spoke little after that.
Most of Mrs Bolden families lives in Tennessee with a proud heritage that dates back to Momma Lizzie’s home in Somerville, Tennessee, now stretches from coast to coast, with relatives in places like St. Louis, Fort Lauderdale and California, said grandson Tommy Bolden, who lives in St. Louis. “She was always very family-oriented. She gave good advice and the family listened. She was a hard worker, and a farmer for most of her life,” said her grandson, James Bolden.
Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, of Puerto Rico is now expected to assume the title of world’s oldest person, says Robert Young, a Guinness researcher. The Gerontology Research Group lists Toro’s date of birth as August 21 1891.
Meanwhile, a Mississippi man, Moses Hardy, believed to be the second-oldest man in the world and the last black U.S. veteran of World War I, has died Thursday at a nursing home in Aberdeen at age 113. “He had been doing great. He didn’t suffer and he wasn’t sick, he died of old age. He knew everybody and those he knew, he always knew them when they came in to visit,” said Evelyn Davis, 68, one of Hardy’s eight children, said her father would have been 114 on Jan. 6.
Young said Hardy had been No. 6 on Guinness’ list of the world’s oldest people.
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