World’s oldest Person, Susannah Mushatt Jones Dies at 116

Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person and last American from the 1800s, has died in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 116.

Jones was born in a farming town near Montgomery, Alabama, in 1899, and was one of 11 siblings.

She attended a special school for young black girls and when she graduated in 1922, worked full-time helping family members pick crops. She left after a year to work as a nanny, heading north to New Jersey and eventually making her way to New York, the Guardian reports.