There are no living Americans born in the 1800s as of today.

[Rain Man]

There are now two American centuries that do not have representatives in the population any more. What a sad day. No more discussions of the Civil War or rolling hoops on sticks. No more memories of driving Conestoga wagons westward or Grover Cleveland or the Underground Railroad. An era has ended.

However, given her family's proclivity to procreate, I suspect that all of humanity will have some of her genetic code within 100 years.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/13/living...ies/index.html

(CNN) Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, has died in New York, a Guinness World Records spokesman confirmed Friday. She was 116.

Jones, who attributed her longevity to sleep, clean living and positive energy, died at 8:26 p.m. Thursday after being ill and in and out of the hospital for 10 days, said her niece, Dr. Lavilla Watson. She died in her sleep.

Jones was the last American born in the 1800s, according to Robert Young, senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records and director of the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group's Supercentenarian Research and Database Division.

The presumptive oldest person in the world is Emma Morano of Italy, who was born on November 29, 1899, according to Young. The oldest man is Israel Kristal of Israel, who is 112.

Jones was born on July 6, 1899, in Lowndes County, Alabama, and her life spanned three centuries, according to Guinness World Records. Her father was a sharecropper who supported his family by picking cotton.
The Brooklyn, New York, woman lived through 20 U.S. presidents, two world wars and the birth of the automobile, the airplane, TV and the Internet.

Guinness officially recognized Jones as the oldest recorded person on the planet last year after 116-year-old Jeralean Talley died in suburban Detroit.
The oldest living person ever recorded was Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997 at 122.

Jones attended the Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama, where Booker T. Washington was an original member of the school's board of trustees, according to the New York City Housing Authority.

In 1923, Jones moved north to New York, where she worked as a live-in housekeeper and child-care provider.

Jones said she was determined to give the first-born girl in her family the gift of a college education. Despite her $50 weekly salary, she said she single-handedly put her first three nieces through college.

The third oldest of 10 children, Jones had 100 nieces and nephews.

Jones had said she did not smoke or drink and cited loving relationships as a secret to her longevity.

"I surround myself with love and positive energy," she told the New York City Housing Authority in 2005. "That's the key to long life and happiness."

[ClevelandBronco]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

There are now two American centuries that do not have representatives in the population any more. What a sad day. No more discussions of the Civil War or rolling hoops on sticks ...

My mother rolled hoops with sticks.

I don't know how yet, but that's going to turn into something.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

People should quit voting like they were.

I will honor her by voting like it was the 1800's.

[chinaski]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

I'm 37 and I LOVE old people. Listening to their stories is like a living history lesson.

I'll never forget George Baker, who was my neighbor when I was a kid. He was 100 years old in 1995, if I'm not mistaken. He fought in the trenches of World War 1 and used to tell us stories about it. I remember sitting there transfixed listening to him. Good times.

I hear ya man. I'm 40, and the oldest people I remember were born around 1893-1895. I didn't fully appreciate listening to them when they were still alive, but it's kind of an honor to have known and talked to people that had experienced those times. Very good memories.

It's also interesting talking to my own Father about his Great Grandmother, who died in the early 1960's in her 90's. She was born and raised in the 1860's on a farm in Central Missouri...both her father and her grandfather were Union Veterans of the Civil War, one a Calvary Captain. It's incredible really, and in reality it wasn't that long ago...

[Rausch]

I always thought I wanted to be one of those 110 year old people who lived long enough to see amazing discoveries.

Not anymore.

After the "advances" of the last 20 years I think 65 will be fine...

[Chiefs Pantalones]

Did they shoot or stab her in the head after she died?

[Halfcan]

Great story-she was a living history book.

I miss my Grand parents every day. We lost the entire upper tier of my family a few years ago. I am now the 3rd oldest behind my parents. It goes by way too fast.

[Aries Walker]

When she turned 18, she still wasn't allowed to vote.

She was born the same year as Ernest Hemingway and Al Capone.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

(CNN) Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, has died in New York, a Guinness World Records spokesman confirmed Friday. She was 116.

Jones, who attributed her longevity to sleep, clean living and positive energy, died at 8:26 p.m. Thursday after being ill and in and out of the hospital for 10 days, said her niece, Dr. Lavilla Watson. She died in her sleep.

Jones was the last American born in the 1800s, according to Robert Young, senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records and director of the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group's Supercentenarian Research and Database Division.

The presumptive oldest person in the world is Emma Morano of Italy, who was born on November 29, 1899, according to Young. The oldest man is Israel Kristal of Israel, who is 112.

/Emma Morano

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

When she turned 18, she still wasn't allowed to vote.

She was born the same year as Ernest Hemingway and Al Capone.

This confused me for a second because the voting age didn't go down to 18 until the 1970s. But then I thought, "Ohhhhhh. Woman."

[Chiefshrink]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

I'm 37 and I LOVE old people. Listening to their stories is like a living history lesson.

I'll never forget George Baker, who was my neighbor when I was a kid. He was 100 years old in 1995, if I'm not mistaken. He fought in the trenches of World War 1 and used to tell us stories about it. I remember sitting there transfixed listening to him. Good times.

Love it !! We do not have enough of this in our society of forefather real life storytelling to the younger generations and it definitely shows.

My great grandfather was born in 1893 and he worked for the Olathe Fire dept when horses pulled the water wagon. When he first joined as a young guy it was his job to feed,water and ride the horses to keep them in shape. Eventually he worked his way up to Fire Chief and was the Chief for the next 40yrs retiring in the mid 1960's.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Halfcan

Great story-she was a living history book.

I miss my Grand parents every day. We lost the entire upper tier of my family a few years ago. I am now the 3rd oldest behind my parents. It goes by way too fast.

It sure does. I am now the oldest male in the family and only my eldest sister is older.
Losing Dad was a real life changer.