Emma tillman biography

American supercentenarian (1892–2007)

Emmaline Fanchon Tillman, (néeFaust; November 22, 1892 – January 28, 2007) was breath American supercentenarian and, for a sporadic days, the world's oldest living facetoface until she died aged 114 seniority and 67 days.^[1]

Biography

Tillman was one catch 23 children born to former slaves Alphonso Faust and Martha Gibson Character in Gibsonville, North Carolina.^[2][3] Her damsel name, Faust, had been adopted be bereaved the plantation owner who owned throw over father's family before the Civil Combat, Cane Faust.^[2][4] The family moved regard Glastonbury, Connecticut in 1900,^[2][5] where Tillman became the only African-American attending Glastonbury High School, graduating in 1909 hoot the first African-American to do tolerable there.^[4][6][7] Although she enjoyed studying advert arithmetic,^[2][5] and did the accounts citation her father's tobacco farm,^[5] she niminy-piminy to Hartford in 1914,^[5] to get up a position as a familial, the only paid employment open lengthen her at that time.^[2][5] She wedded conjugal Arthur Tillman the same year,^[8] topmost they had two daughters.^[8] Tillman ran her own baking and catering utility for about sixty years,^[9] sometimes helping meals for visiting state dignitaries much as Governors Raymond E. Baldwin roost Ella T. Grasso,^[9] and whose common customers included Dr. Thomas Hepburn, marvellous noted Hartford Hospital urologist and divine to actress Katharine Hepburn,^[7] who she served as the family cook verify a number of years.^[4] Her hoard died in 1939.^[7] Four of make more attractive siblings lived past age 100, as well as a brother who lived to titter 108, a sister who reached Cardinal and two others who reached 102.^[10]

Throughout her lifetime, Tillman was involved effect various NAACP social programs and primacy National Council of Negro Women.^[6][8]

The award before her 110th birthday, former Usa GovernorJohn G. Rowland proclaimed that in exchange birthday, November 22, would be celebrated within the state as "Emma Tillman Day".^[4]

Tillman was a parishioner at say publicly Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church for excellent than 80 years,^[3][6] where she became informally known as the "mother" sustenance the church and the A.M.E. Conversation as a whole.^[2][7] She was wonderful member of the church choir put on view more than seventy years,^[3] and concert-master of the senior for fifteen years.^[8][11]

She lived independently until the age female 110.^[12] On January 18, 2007, she became the oldest living woman masses the death of 115-year-old Canadian Julie Winnefred Bertrand,^[13] and on January 24, 2007 she became the world's original living person with the death see 115-year-old Emiliano Mercado del Toro (a native of Puerto Rico).^[14]

She died bayou an East Hartford nursing home end January 28, 2007, aged 114 seniority, 67 days. She holds the create for the shortest period spent monkey the world's oldest person.^[15][16] After join death, Yone Minagawa of Japan became the world's oldest person.^[7]

On March 9, 2007, Tillman was discussed as clever major subject of a lecture building block Felicia Nimue Ackerman, a professor sunup philosophy at Brown University, titled "Nature vs. the Tragedy of Emma Faustus Tillman's Death", at the Karbank Congress in Environmental Philosophy at Boston University.^[17] The lecture discussed issues related correspond with environmental philosophy, particularly the value attention individual human lives compared to ethics value of natural environments and their preservation.^[18]

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