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Lessie Brown, a 114-year-old Ohio woman who was believed to be the oldest person in the United States, died Tuesday, according to WLWT.
Brown, who had reportedly been living with one of her daughters, died at the home in Cleveland Heights, according to Cincinnati.com.
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Brown said in 2013 it was God’s will that she had lived so long. Others in her family attributed her long life to the fact that she ate a sweet potato nearly every day until she was well past 100.
“Oh I don’t know. A lot of them say it’s because I ate a lot of sweet potatoes, but I don’t think that’s it. I don’t know, God’s will,” she told WJW-TV when she celebrated her 109th birthday.
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Brown was born in 1904 in Georgia and grew up on a farm near Atlanta. She was one of 12 children and moved to Cleveland with her family when she was 18.
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She married about four years later and had three girls and two boys. Her husband, Robert Brown, died in 1991.
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Brown’s daughter, Verline Wilson, told Cleveland.com that her mother responded, “That’s good,” when she told her in May 2018 that she was the country’s oldest person following the May 9, 2018, death of 114-year-old Delphine Gibson, of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
The world’s oldest person is believed to be 116-year-old Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who lives on the southern island of Kyushu, according to the Gerontology Research Group in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
Brown turned 114 in September and celebrated the milestone with two of her daughters and grandchildren.
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Ohio Woman, Oldest Person In The US, Dies At 114 was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
