Elizabeth Bolden

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden (born August 15, 1890 in Somerville, Tennessee) was verified in April 2005 as having been the oldest documented resident of the United States since the death of Emma Verona Johnston the previous December. She is four weeks older than Bettie Wilson, who had previously been the oldest known American. She became the oldest living person in the world when Hendrikje van Andel died on August 30, 2005.

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August 15 - 1890 - Somerville - Tennessee - April - 2005 - United States - Emma Verona Johnston - December - Bettie Wilson - Hendrikje van Andel - August 30

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Elizabeth Jones married Lewis Bolden about 1908. Like Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Bolden was born the daughter of freed slaves, and had a son in 1909. In the 1900 U.S. Census, she is recorded as having been 9 years old and born in August 1890, and in the 1910 census she was already married with a child. With the destruction of Fayette County, Tennessee records in a 1925 fire, the family had guessed that she was born in 1891, but investigation proved she was a year older. She outlived her husband and five of her seven children. Two are still alive as of 2005. Queen Esther Rhodes is 88 and Mamie Brittmon is 85.

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1908 - 1909 - 1900 - Census - 1910 - Fayette County, Tennessee - 1925 - 1891 - 2005

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She currently lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

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