New York: At 116, Susannah Mushatt Jones died yesterday at a senior home in Brooklyn, Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Los Angles-based Gerontology Research Group, said. Born on an Alabama farm in July 1899, Jones was also the last living American born in the 19th Century.

Susannah Mushatt Jones (right) now, Emma Morano, becomes the oldest person in the world at 116. Pics/AFP