sentence1: Baines' father, a black born in 1863, two years before the end of the U.S. Civil War, was likely a slave, Young said. Baines has outlived her entire family. Her only daughter died of typhoid fever when she was a toddler. Featured on local television newscasts in November when she cast her ballot for Barack Obama for president, Baines said she backed him "because he's for the coloured." She said she never thought she would live to see a black man become president. Baines received a letter from Obama, wishing her a happy birthday. Baines worked as a maid in Ohio State University dormitories until her retirement, and has lived at the Los Angeles convalescent hospital for more than 10 years. Since 1986, Young said, the world's oldest person title has been held by a woman for all but 44 days.
sentence2: Baines died of typhoid fever.