death_date death_place children birth_place other_names nationality name parents birth_date spouse known_for article_title birth_name
7 may 1994 radford , virginia , united states verne taylor -lrb- 1909-2009 -rrb- , seward , charles rockport , texas , united states mattie seward , mattie skeete , martha skeete american margaret skeete r.h. seward october 27 , 1878 renn skeete -lrb- died 1953 -rrb- oldest living american from 1993 to 1994 margaret skeete
 margaret seward
margaret skeete

margaret skeete née seward -lrb- october 27 , 1878 -- may 7 , 1994 -rrb- was an american supercentenarian and , from 1993 to 1994 , the oldest living person in the united states .
she was 115 years 192 days old when she died .
according to her eldest daughter , verne taylor , skeete was listed in the 1880 u.s. census as a two-year-old .
human longevity researcher robert young found a two-year-old `` mattie seward '' , of rockport , texas , recorded in that census .
she was listed in the 1993 guinness book of world records as the oldest living american .
she was married to renn skeete , with whom she had three children ; two of which died before skeete did .
after renn skeete 's death in 1953 , she moved from texas to virginia to live with taylor and taylor 's family .
she was survived by her daughter , verne -lrb- january 31 , 1909 - february 4 , 2009 -rrb- , who lived to be a centenarian herself .
