What is Susannah Mushatt Jones?
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Susannah Mushatt Jones | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Susannah Mushatt |birth_date = July 6, 1899 |birth_place = [[Lowndes County, Alabama]], [[U.S.]] |death_date = May 12, 2016 (aged 116 years, 311 days) |death_place = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], U.S. |nationality = [[American nationality law|American]] |spouse = {{marriage|Henry Jones|1928|1933}} (Divorced) |known_for = Oldest living person <br>(June 17, 2015 - May 12, 2016) |parents = Callie & Mary Mushatt<ref name= Jones>{{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2015/7/happy-116th-birthday-to-susannah-mushatt-jones-our-new-oldest-person-record-hold|title=Happy 116th birthday to Susannah Mushatt Jones, our new oldest person record holder|work=guinnessworldrecords.com}}</ref> }} '''Susannah Mushatt Jones''' (July 6, 1899 &ndash; May 12, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] [[supercentenarian]] who was, at the age of 116, the world's oldest living person.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://grg.org/Archives/E.HTM|title=Current Validated Living Supercentenarians|work=Gerontology Research Group}}</ref> Jones was the last living American person born in the 19th century. At the time of her death in May 2016, she was considered as the 3rd-oldest person ever from the United States, after [[Sarah Knauss]] and Lucy Hannah. After Hannah's age was debunked in 2020, it turned out that she was [[List of American supercentenarians|the 2nd-oldest person ever from the United States]] at the time of her death behind only Sarah Knauss. However, in April 2023, Delphia Welford (1875 - 1992) has been validated,<ref name=GRG2023>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/recent-historical-validations-by-the-gerontology-research-group/ |title=Historical validations by the Gerontology Research Group |access-date=2023-05-13 |archive-date=2023-05-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502020450/https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/recent-histo