World's oldest known person dies at 116 in US

CHICAGO, Dec 12 (Reuters) Elizabeth Bolden, believed to have been the oldest person in the world, has died at 116, local media in Tennessee reported today.

Bolden, daughter of freed slaves, died yesterday in a nursing home where she had been living since suffering a stroke two years ago, the Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper and broadcast outlets in that city said.

Bolden was born August 15, 1890, as Elizabeth Jones and married Lewis Bolden in the early 1900s. She had seven children, 40 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren, 150 great-great-grandchildren, 220 great-great-great grandchildren and 75 great-great-great-great grandchildren, the Commercial Appeal said.

Guinness World Records earlier this year had listed Bolden as the oldest known person alive.

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