Susannah Mushatt Jones

Susannah Mushatt Jones (July 6, 1899 – May 12, 2016) was an American supercentenarian who was, aged 116 years and 311 days, the world's oldest living person and the last living American verified to have been born in the 19th century. She received tributes from the United States House of Representatives and from the Alabama House of Representatives "for a remarkable lifetime of exceptional achievement lived during three centuries." was born to Callie and Mary Mushatt on July 6, 1899, in Lowndes County, Alabama. She was the third child and oldest daughter of eleven children. Her parents were African-American sharecroppers who farmed the same land as her grandparents.

As a young woman she worked in the fields, and later said she was determined to find different work.

In 1928, she married Henry Jones but divorced him in 1933, saying in 2011 that she "didn't know what became of him", and had no children. She also used some of her salary to establish The Calhoun Club, which was a college scholarship fund for African-American students at her high school. She also ate bacon throughout the day.

In 2022, researchers cited Susannah Mushatt Jones in a study that connected longevity to positive attitudes towards the aging process itself.

Final years and death Jones celebrated her last five birthdays at the Vandalia Senior Center in Brooklyn. On July 3, 2015, three days before her 116th birthday, she was presented with a certificate from Guinness World Records recognizing her as the oldest person alive. Following her death, Emma Morano became the world's oldest living person as well as the last living person who was born in the 1800s.