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04/04/2026 6:35 pm
I recently came across this case. Dollie Jewell “Jewell” Clay (née Alvis) was born in Franklin County, Texas on December 3, 1906. She passed away in Winnsboro, Texas on November 18, 2016, just fifteen days shy of her 110th birthday. She was a fourth cousin of my great-grandmother. I have found several documents supporting her claimed age.
1925 birth certificate of daughter
Interested in supercentenarians since 27 July 2018.
First supercentenarian I learned about: Kane Tanaka (1903-2022)
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04/04/2026 9:23 pm
R.I.P. Ms. Clay.
How interesting for you to have found a near-supercentenarian among your relations, @charlesm09!
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When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
