{"id":229695,"date":"2021-04-18T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hester-ford-oldest-person-in-america-dead-at-116\/"},"modified":"2021-04-18T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T04:12:10","slug":"hester-ford-oldest-person-in-america-dead-at-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hester-ford-oldest-person-in-america-dead-at-116\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hester Ford, oldest person in America, dead at 116"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hester Ford, oldest person in America, dead at 116<\/strong>”
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America\u2019s oldest person has died, but she left behind quite a legacy \u2014 not the least of which are some 120 great-great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Hester Ford, of Charlotte, North Carolina, died at the age of 116, according to WBTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Born in 1904 in Lancaster, South Carolina, Ford grew up working on a farm, planting and picking cotton and plowing the fields, the local station said.<\/p>\n

In addition to her legion of great-greats, the matriarch had 12 children, 48 grandchildren and 108 great-grandchildren, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Her precise age was unclear. One set of census records shows her birth as Aug. 15, 1904, but another set shows she was born in 1905. However, last year the Gerontology Research Group reportedly declared she was the oldest person in the US.<\/p>\n

She died peacefully at home surrounded by family, her great-granddaughter said, according to the station.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer light shined beyond her local area and she lived beyond a century with memories containing real-life experience of over 100 years,\u201d Tanisha Patterson-Powe reportedly said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe not only represented the advancement of our family but of the Black African American race and culture in our country. She was a reminder of how far we have come as people on this earth.\u00a0She has been celebrated all over the world by local governments, community leaders, social media<\/a>, foreign dignities and presidents as a cherished jewel of society for holding the honor of being the oldest living person in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ford\u2019s husband of 45 years died in 1963, a half-century ago, according to the report.<\/p>\n

COVID-19 was not the church-going woman\u2019s first pandemic; she also lived through the 1918 influenza pandemic.<\/p>\n

Ford ate half of a banana for breakfast every day, and when asked to the secret of her longevity last year, she said: \u201cI just live right, all I know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local county commissioners declared Sept. 1 as Mother Hester McCardell Ford Day in Mecklenburg County, in her honor last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are honored and we just thank God for the opportunity to celebrate her,\u201d Mary Hill, one of Hester Ford\u2019s 68 grandchildren said, according to the local station. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe just continues to be a blessing to us. And she tells us all the time. You are here to be a blessing to someone else.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Hester Ford, oldest person in America, dead at 116” America\u2019s oldest person has died, but she left behind quite a legacy \u2014 not the least of which are some 120 great-great-grandchildren. Hester Ford, of Charlotte, North Carolina, died at the age of 116, according to WBTV. Born in 1904 in Lancaster, South Carolina, Ford grew…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Hester_Ford.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[102528,76715,72969,5200,67874],"class_list":["post-229695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-18-21","tag-aging","tag-north-carolina","tag-obituaries","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}