Alice Coles
Supercentenarian data for USA (Virginia)
- Full name: Alice Coles
- Lifespan: (28.08.1865 – 05.11.1978)
- Age: 113 years, 69 days
- Birthplace: USA (Virginia)
- Last residence: USA (New York)
- Application date: 11.01.2014
- Validation date: 09.12.2019
- Validation source: Mark Muir/Nick Eriksson/Dr. Wacław Jan Kroczek
Biography
Alice Flannagan was born in Charlottesville, Virginia as the daughter of Maria Flannagan and an unnamed man. In the 1870s her mother remarried to a man with the last name Gilmore and took the family to Albemarle, Virginia.
Alice married Ledwell Coles and had six children with him, five of whom she survived. She was widowed around 1910 and moved to Syracuse, New York in 1940 to live with her daughter Hester (who lived to be 106 herself). Coles died in Syracuse, New York on 5 November 1978, aged 113 years, 69 days. She was succeeded as the world’s oldest person by Eliza Underwood.
Validation
Her age was verified by Mark Muir/Nick Eriksson/Dr. Wacław Jan Kroczek, and validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) on 09 December 2019.
Longevity Recognition
- Doyenne of WORLD (N/A – 05.11.1978)