Charles, you could reach out to Guinness World Records, as he was a WOP candidate and you have lots of documentation supporting his age 🙂

A wonderful achievement for those times Charlesm09.

I'm not sure where else to put this; I just found that Mollie Lollis (1889-2001) and George Washington Anthony (1874-1974) share a pair of third great-grandparents: Johann Nicolaus Albert Raush/Roush (1673-1723) and Anna Catharina Alberts (1673-1738), who started a family in Baumholder, a town i...

He is the 25th oldest man in UK history to die.He was the last Briton born in 1916.He died at the age of 109 years and 211 days—the youngest person to die while holding the title of "last survivor of the year" since Harry Fransman (Nov. 25, 1911 – Sept. 25, 2020; 108 years, 305 days). Fransman was b...

We had eight 110+ individuals here for the first time since this list began publication; now we have seven, also for the first time. Luis Cano joined the list on Nov 24, 2023. Ed Martin joined on Jan 3, 2024. Jan 30, 2023, was the last time there was no one from New Jersey on the list. Jan 15 wa...