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A 114-year-old Houston woman has become the oldest living person in the U.S., according to LongeviQuest, an organization that tracks human longevity across the globe. Elizabeth Francis is now the oldest living American at age 114 and 217 days after Edie Ceccarelli, the previous oldest living American, died at age 116 on Feb. 22 in California, according to LongeviQuest. Francis is now also the fifth-oldest person on Earth, according to LongeviQuest.
The supercentenarian lives with her 94-year-old daughter, Dorothy Williams, in a private residence where caregivers come to the home every day, Francis' granddaughter Ethel Harrison told TODAY.com. “It’s just amazing,” Harrison, 68, said. “We’re so grateful that she’s still here, and my mom, who’s her daughter — she only had one child — is still alive also.” Longevity runs in Francis' family — one of her sisters lived to age 106, and her father died at age 99, Harrison said.
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