Talk:List of oldest people by U.S. state

message: Oldest Authenticated Centenarian-US State Records								
	*as of Mar. 25, 2007								
state	name	born	died	years	days	race	sex		record added
*Alabama	Lucy Hannah	July 16, 1875	Mar. 21, 1993	117	248	B	F		Sept.  9, 2003
*Alaska	1			 					
*Arizona	1	 	 	 	 	 	 		
*Arkansas	Mary Randall	Apr. 1, 1887	Nov. 12, 2000	113	225	B	F		Oct. 30, 2004
*California	Mary McKinney	May 30, 1873	Feb.  2, 1987	113	248	W	F		1999
*Colorado	Frankie Jones	Nov. 16, 1892	Jan. 31, 2004	111	76	W	F		June 24, 2004
*Connecticut	Mary Bidwell	May 19, 1881	Apr. 25, 1996	114	342	W	F		1999
*Delaware	1								
*D.C.	Ruth West	Oct. 24, 1893	June 30, 2005	111	249	B	M		June 14, 2006
*Florida	Carrie White	Nov. 18, 1874	Feb. 14, 1991	116	88	W	F		1999
*Georgia	Carrie Lazenby	Feb.  9, 1882	Sept. 14, 1996	114	208	B	F	 	Aug.  5, 2002
*Hawaii	1								
*Idaho	1								
*Illinois	Wilhelmina Kott	Mar.  7, 1880	Sept.  6, 1994	114	183	W	F		1999
*Indiana	Edna Parker	Apr. 20, 1893	 	113*	340*	W	F		Jan. 18, 2007
*Iowa	E. Verona Johnston	Aug.  6, 1890	Dec. 1, 2004	114	117	W	F		2003
*Kansas	Flossie Page	June 12, 1893	Feb. 22, 2006	112	255	W	F		Feb.  9, 2006
*Kentucky	Mary Anna Boone	Feb. 10, 1887	May 13, 2001	114	92	W	F		Feb.  9, 2003
*Louisiana	Bettie Chatmon	Apr. 30, 1884	Aug. 16, 1998	114	108	B	F		Feb.  2, 2004
*Maine	Fred Hale	Dec.  1, 1890	Nov. 19, 2004	113	354	W	M		
*Maryland	Pearl Bradford	Mar. 22, 1892	Nov. 20, 2003	111	243	W	F		Oct. 27, 2003
*Massachusetts	Mary Christian	June 12, 1889	Apr. 20, 2003	113	312	W	F		
*Michigan	Maud Farris-Luse	Jan. 21, 1887	Mar. 18, 2002	115	56	W	F		
*Minnesota	Delvina Dahlheimer	Dec. 31, 1888	Mar. 13, 2002	113	72	W	F		
*Mississippi	Bettie Wilson	Sept. 13, 1890	Feb. 13, 2006	115	153	B	F		Oct.  8, 2003
*Missouri	Emma Wilson	May 12, 1870	Oct. 13, 1983	113	154	W	F	 	July 12, 2002
*Montana	Emma Taylor	Sept. 15, 1891	June 24, 2003	111	282	W	F		 
*Nebraska	Clara Huhn	Jan. 28, 1887	Dec. 20, 2000	113	327	W	F		Sept. 24, 2004
*Nevada	1								
*New Hampshire	Nellie Spencer	Aug. 24, 1869	Nov. 13, 1982	113	81	W	F		July 12, 2002
*New Jersey	Alphaeus Cole	July 12, 1876	Nov. 25, 1988	112	136	W	M		1999
*New Mexico	Anne Olsen	June 23, 1891	Dec. 16, 2001	110	176	W	F		Apr. 20, 2005
*New York	Grace Thaxton	June 18, 1891	July  6, 2005	114	18	W	F		May 27, 2005
*North Carolina	Maggie Barnes	Mar.  6, 1882	Jan. 19, 1998	115	319	B	F	 	Sept.  8, 2003
*North Dakota	Zela Burstad	Oct.  7, 1893	Mar. 19, 2004	110	164	W	F		June 26, 2006
*Ohio	Myrtle Dorsey	Nov. 22, 1885	June 25, 2000	114	216	W	F		
*Oklahoma	Margaret Russell	Oct. 31, 1892	May 29, 2005	112	210	W	F		Aug.  5, 2004
*Oregon	Geneva McNicholl	Dec. 10, 1889	Jan. 22, 2002	112	43	W	F		
*Pennsylvania	Sarah Knauss	Sept. 24, 1880	Dec. 30, 1999	119	97	W	F		1999
*Puerto Rico	Emiliano Mercado Del Toro	Aug. 21, 1891	Jan. 24, 2007	115	156	H	M		May 21, 2006
*Rhode Island	Lydia Carvalho	Jan. 21, 1892	Feb. 15, 2004	112	25	W	F		Nov. 24, 2004
*South Carolina	Yettie Wilson	Aug. 28, 1892	May 27, 2005	112	272	B	F		June 11, 2006
*South Dakota	Berna Dupertuis	Sept. 21, 1888	June  6, 2001	112	258	W	F		Dec. 30, 2006
*Tennessee	Elizabeth Bolden	Aug. 15, 1890	Dec. 11, 2006	116	118	B	F		Apr. 22, 2005
*Texas	Margaret Skeete	Oct. 27, 1878	May  7, 1994	115	192	W	F		1999
*Utah	Cleo Hinckley	Oct. 13, 1890	Sept. 30, 2002	111	352	W	F		 
*Vermont	Jessica Swift	Sept. 17, 1871	Jan.  2, 1982	110	107	W	F		July  6, 2002
*Virginia	Mathew Beard	July  9, 1870	Feb. 16, 1985	114	222	B	M		July  1, 2003
*Washington	Bessie Waldern	Oct.  1, 1887	May  8, 1998	110	219	W	F		Aug. 12, 2002
*West Virginia	Ettie Mae Greene	Sept.  8, 1877	Feb. 26, 1992	114	171	W	F		1999
*Wisconsin	Anna Balsiger	Feb. 11, 1889	Sept. 14, 2001	112	215	W	F		
*Wyoming	1								
	 								
	notes								
	1. there is no validated record above age 110 yet established.								
	2. state listed is state of birth								
	3. only validated cases included.  								
	 								
Ryoung122 14:34, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it Ruth West or Corinne Dixon Taylor who holds the D.C. record? -AMK152(Talk • Contributions • Send message)  18:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question: it should be Taylor though. Extremely sexy 21:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Here are the records

message: Please note that the above data is all by 'state of birth' and did not include the Corinne Taylor and Leila Shull updates. I do note that a few additional cases were added, whereby the person was born in another country...certainly not my preferred method because it creates a 'mixed' table of data, not strictly comparable.
 Also, Jim Lincoln's claim is 'not validated.' Ryoung122 23:44, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 'By state of birth'

message: The flag shown WAS for the 'country' of Georgia, not the state. Can someone fix this? Ryoung122 15:15, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently fixed already though. Extremely sexy 14:55, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While that was fixed, now when the list is reordered according state name, Georgia always appears first.Brainscar (talk) 01:48, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's very odd indeed. Extremely sexy (talk) 12:37, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Cheers, CP 15:39, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: He is the best. Extremely sexy (talk) 20:48, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Flag (Georgia)

message: I think there should be records for all of the states because i bet there is a one 108 year old in each state. Please, add the people in to the missing states. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.136.237.89 (talk) 23:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Be my guest then. Extremely sexy 15:31, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More records

message: Why is the term "Oriental" even used in this entry? You wouldn't call a black person negro, so why use a term that many will find offensive? --GodfreyDaniels 23:08, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Moreover, calling a black or colored person a negro really isn't offensive at all, or is it? Extremely sexy 14:38, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Oriental" is a pejorative term

message: :This article deals entirely with U.S.-born or residing people, so why are the dates given using the international format (date, month, year) when Wikipedia guidlines clearly state you should use the American format for dating (month, date, year) for an article like this and the 2007 draft of the article itself was displayed on this talk page using American-style dating? I have strong reason to believe this should be rectified in the article. Wikifying the dates would also be nice, but is not imperative.
KirkCliff2 (talk) 15:51, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If you want to change it, be my guest. Obviously some European editors put it in Euro-style.Ryoung122 06:21, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dating style 

message: I think this page should be merged with the main US supercentenarians page. Other countries such as Canada and Britain have their territorial records on their main pages. We don't need a seperate page to list the state recordholders.Tim198 (talk) 22:42, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: Annie Edwards Smith is the oldest Nevadan. According to here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~motcogs/edwards_annie.htm      Highlight the invisible text, copy, and paste it on Microsoft Word, and it will pop up, and it will say that she is their oldest resident verbatim. She 99 years, 11 months old at her death. --Nick Ornstein (talk) 11:12, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Oldest Nevada resident