Sarah Knauss

Sarah DeRemer Knauss (née Clark; September 24, 1880 – December 30, 1999) was an American supercentenarian, and the world's oldest living person between the death of Canadian woman Marie-Louise Meilleur on April 16, 1998, and her own death from natural causes aged 119 years, 97 days. Knauss is the oldest American ever and the third-oldest person in history, behind Jeanne Calment and Kane Tanaka.

She, also along with Danish-born American man Christian Mortensen, who died just 9 days after Meilleur, were the last two living people born before 1884. During the last 40 days of her life, she was also the last living person born before 1885.

 Biography 
Knauss was born as Sarah DeRemer Clark on September 24, 1880, as the third of seven children in Hollywood, Pennsylvania, US. Her family then later moved to South Bethlehem, Pennyslavia.

Her only child, Kathryn, was born in 1903 and died in 2005, aged 101. After 64 years of marriage, her husband died in 1965 at the age of 86.Photo Gallery for Supercentenarians born in the year 1880, as of August 17, 2019. Gerontology Research Group

Knauss was a very short woman. She was  tall.

At the age of 104, she moved in with her daughter, Kathryn Knauss Sullivan. At the age of 106, she was no longer able to walk and got about via wheelchair. She remained in relatively good health well into her 119th year, except for being almost totally deaf.

 Death 
On December 30, 1999, Knauss died from natural causes in her sleep at around 3:00 p.m., while sitting in the chair in her room. She died 2 days before the year 2000 started. With her death, American woman Ella Miller became the oldest living person in the world.Table C - World's Oldest Person (WOP) Titleholders Since 1955 Gerontology Research Group

 Related pages 
List of American supercentenarians

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Category:1880 births
Category:1999 deaths
Category:American supercentenarians
Category:People from Hazleton, Pennsylvania