New world's oldest person dies after just 4 days with title

[Chacor]

Apparently, Emma Tillman has passed away at 114, meaning she was oldest living person for just four days after the death of Señor Emiliano Mercado del Toro of Puerto Rico.

Will get a link soon.

EDIT:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/29/oldest ... index.html

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- Emma Faust Tillman, who became the world's oldest known living person last week, died at a nursing home on Sunday. She was 114.

Tillman, the daughter of former slaves, died Sunday night, said Karen Chadderton, administrator of Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center in East Hartford.

"She went peacefully," Chadderton said Monday. "She was a wonderful woman."

Chadderton said several family members were with Tillman when she died.

Tillman, who was born during the administration of President Benjamin Harrison. Her reign as the world's oldest person was short-lived; she assumed the title January 24 with the death of 115-year-old Emiliano Mercado del Toro of Puerto Rico, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Yone Minagawa of Fukuoka, Japan, was born January 4, 1893, and is known as the world's oldest living person, Guinness said.

EDIT2:

Also, a BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6310363.stm

[JenBayles]

Can you imagine living for 114 years? Think about what this woman has seen in her lifetime! I am 43, and many of the tech advances in the past 25 years have me amazed.