adelina domingues (february 19, 1888 – august 21, 2002) was a cape verdean american supercentenarian who was the world's oldest person from the may 28, 2002, death of fellow 114-year-old american woman grace clawson until her own death less than three months later. domingues was born in cape verde. her family was not very well off financially at the time of her birth. domingues's italian father was a harbor pilot by profession, and her mother was portuguese by ethnicity. she married a ship captain in 1907, and moved to the united states that year. her husband died from cancer in 1950. domingues was a missionary from the church of the nazarene in cape verde and other parts of africa and was also a religious preacher when she lived in massachusetts, as well as an expert seamstress.