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Brooklyn's Susannah Mushatt Jones, oldest person and last American born in the 1800s...

• http://www.nydailynews.com, BY Christopher Brennan

The supercentenarian died at 8:26 p.m. Thursday evening at her senior home in Brooklyn, the Gerontology Research Group's Robert Young told the Daily News.

She was the last known American to have been born in the 1800s, and there is currently only one more person in the world verified as having taken breath in the 19th century.

GRG, which works with the Guinness Book of World Records, said that the oldest person is now Emma Morano-Martinuzzi, an Italian born on Nov. 29, 1899.

The queen of King's County inherited the title of world's oldest person from Jerlean Telley, a Michigan woman who died last year at the age of 116.

Jones, known to loved ones as "Miss Susie," told the Daily News last year that she credited her long life to getting sleep, not smoking and not drinking, though she admits that she loves and often eats bacon.


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