Last Living Person Born in the 1800s

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I saw a similar article about her today. I've always been fascinated by the last person or persons alive from a time or event. The last of the WWI veterans died in the last couple of years or so, and now there's only one person left who lived in the 19th century.

The last survivor of the Titanic, who was a baby at the time, died a few years ago. We're not too many years away now from when the number of WWII vets still living will dwindle down to a small number. Col. Reb started a thread several years ago about a few War Between the States widows still being alive. I'd imagine the last of them are likely gone by now as well.
 
Don Wassall said:
I saw a similar article about her today. I've always been fascinated by the last person or persons alive from a time or event. The last of the WWI veterans died in the last couple of years or so, and now there's only one person left who lived in the 19th century.

The last survivor of the Titanic, who was a baby at the time, died a few years ago. We're not too many years away now from when the number of WWII vets still living will dwindle down to a small number. Col. Reb started a thread several years ago about a few War Between the States widows still being alive. I'd imagine the last of them are likely gone by now as well.
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I also saw it on Fox. It reminded me of when my great great grandmother passed away at age 100. She was born in 1887 and I wished I would have spent more time with her. I also would have liked to have asked her about history, but really didn't get the chance. My great grandmother made it to 99 and just shy of 100 by 46 days! My grandmother made it to 90. She probably would have made it to 100, but she smoked for 60 years, it eventually caught up to her, I believe.
Speaking of WWII vets, my grandfather was a Marine and WWII vet of Iwo Jima and did talk with him about what he saw and went through. I had a lot of respect for that man. He died in 2005. I miss him.
 
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Italian Emma Morano just celebrated her 117th birthday & the last living human (on record) to have been born in the 1800s. Born in 1899, she's lived during 3 centuries. Just image how much the world has changed from when she was a little girl (& mostly for the worst).

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/oldest-person-world-reveals-secret-9354693
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Interesting article. She likes to eat 2 raw eggs and 1 cooked egg every day. I like raw egg yolks but I'm afraid to eat it now, same as raw chopped beef - steak tartare - both of which i ate as a kid. Another super centarian i read about not long ago liked salo, which is pig fat, popular in eastern Europe, another food i used to eat. I read a book about centennarians once. Generally they did most of the stuff their long gone doctors told them not to do.
 
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I also saw it on Fox. It reminded me of when my great great grandmother passed away at age 100. She was born in 1887 and I wished I would have spent more time with her. I also would have liked to have asked her about history, but really didn't get the chance. My great grandmother made it to 99 and just shy of 100 by 46 days! My grandmother made it to 90. She probably would have made it to 100, but she smoked for 60 years, it eventually caught up to her, I believe.
Speaking of WWII vets, my grandfather was a Marine and WWII vet of Iwo Jima and did talk with him about what he saw and went through. I had a lot of respect for that man. He died in 2005. I miss him.
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Wow u have good genes. We look back and wish we could hear our ancestors tales now. My father had such an amazing adventurous life, but when he talked about it my mother would hush him. She was afraid. And i was just a kid and wasn't intereseted.

My Ozark mountain hillbilly uncle passed away at age 95 around the same time as your grandfather. He spent his 95th birthday at Hooters flirting with the girls. I miss him a lot. We'd argue about everything on the phone but there was never any hard feelings. He sounded so sharp and young, it was like a college bull session. They interviewed him about his army experiences and life experiences on educational tv and i have the tape. It's great to see him again.
 
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Don Wassall said:
I saw a similar article about her today. I've always been fascinated by the last person or persons alive from a time or event. The last of the WWI veterans died in the last couple of years or so, and now there's only one person left who lived in the 19th century.

The last survivor of the Titanic, who was a baby at the time, died a few years ago. We're not too many years away now from when the number of WWII vets still living will dwindle down to a small number. Col. Reb started a thread several years ago about a few War Between the States widows still being alive. I'd imagine the last of them are likely gone by now as well.
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It interests me too, the inexorable passage of time. WW2 - it ended in 1945, so u figure if someone was 17 in 1945 they would have been born in 1928 which would make him 88 now, and he would be the youngest of them. So it goes...
 
I tend to believe that third/second world countries have people that may be older than her but they don't have an authenticated birth certificate. I remember reading about a Brazilian authentic African who's parents were both slaves imported to Brazil was a reputed 120 years+ and the Brazilian authorities accepted his credentials but Guinness doesn't accept them. Also in the Caucaus mountains many people have been reported to being 120+years.....https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/n...ving-with-wife-69-years-his-junior-in-brazil/

Ps. This is a White man or at least can pass for one and isn't the same man and he is roughly as old as the full blooded African. So maybe this is a hoax, either that or dirty water and poor nutrition and poverty leads to old age...
 
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For some, sound advice is go listen to some music. A ex neighbor of mine is 92, he started smoking when he was 14, and smoked 2 packs a day up until his mid 80s. He used to drink about 10 cups of coffee a day. Now, older, he cut back to a pack a day and four cups of coffee. He's been making his own wine since the 1950s and drinks several tumblers a day. He really is an old coot -spitting and pissing all day. I still visit him once a year. He lives alone now as his wife is in a staffed home.
 
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