World's oldest person dies

Great-great-great grandmother to 220 passes away.

Published December 12, 2006 7:37PM (EST)

The world's oldest person, 116-year-old Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden, died yesterday, according to the administrator of the nursing home where she was living. Bolden was born in 1890, and was recognized as the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of World Records. She had 40 grandchildren, 75 great-grandchildren, 150 great-great-grandchildren, 220 great-great-great grandchildren and 75 great-great-great-great grandchildren.

Even writing that made me exhausted.


By Rebecca Traister

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