America’s oldest person has died, but she left behind quite a legacy — not the least of which are some 120 great-great-grandchildren.
Hester Ford, of Charlotte, North Carolina, died at the age of 116, according to WBTV.
Born in 1904 in Lancaster, South Carolina, Ford grew up working on a farm, planting and picking cotton and plowing the fields, the local station said.
In addition to her legion of great-greats, the matriarch had 12 children, 48 grandchildren and 108 great-grandchildren, according to the report.
Her precise age was unclear. One set of census records shows her birth as Aug. 15, 1904, but another set shows she was born in 1905. However, last year the Gerontology Research Group reportedly declared she was the oldest person in the US.
Read more at NY Post.
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Was that picture taken before or after she died??
WHAT DO YOU WISH SOMEONE ON THEIR 120’TH BIRTHDAY? -have a nice day!
She must have been pretty healthy throughout her life in order to live for so long. Probably because she has been doing physical labor on the farm in her youth. Now that people don’t do physical labor anymore, people need to take their exercise very seriously.
Did she die from taking the Covid vaccine?
In nursing home after the shot?
Woozn’t she beez in Ford’s Theater that fateful night?