Abajo Mountains volcanic segment of the Colorado Plateau, in San Juan county, southeastern Utah, U.S. Abajo Peak (11,362 feet [3,463 metres]) is the highest point in the mountains, which comprise eight summits and are embraced by the Manti-LaSal National Forest. The...
The oldest verified person ever was French woman Jeanne Calment (1875-1997), who died at the age of 122 years, 164 days. For other validated supercentenarian cases listed below, the GRG list of validated supercentenarian cases can be used. There are six verified living supercentenarians on this list, the oldest of whom is American woman Susannah Mushatt Jones, aged 7009367001280000000â  116 years, 108 days.
The Brooklyn, New York, woman has lived through 20 U.S. presidents, two world wars and the birth of the automobile, the airplane, TV and the Internet. Guinness officially recognized Jones as the oldest recorded person on the planet last month after 116-year-old Jeralean Talley died in suburban Detroit. The oldest living person ever recorded was Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997 at 122. Jones attended the Calhoun Colored School in Calhoun, Alabama, where Booker T. Washington was an original member of the school's Board of Trustees, according to the New York City Housing Authority.