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Adelina Engargiola Domingues (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian and a member of the Church of the Nazarene.

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She was born to Francisco Garjola, an Italian sea captain, and a Cape Verdean woman in Brava, Cape Verde, when it was a colony of Portugal, and married there by arrangement to Mr. José Manuel Domingues in 1906. She and her husband emigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1907, where she worked as a seamstress and raised four children. Domingues later moved to Southern California, following her husband's death in 1950.

She lived on her own until she was 107. Outliving her own children, she would eventually succeed another immigrant, fellow 114-year-old Grace Clawson (who was born in England), as the oldest documented person in the U.S. when the latter died in May 2002.[1][2][3][4][5]

Domingues credited her longevity to eating lots of vegetables and beans daily and avoiding alcohol and tobacco.[6] Aged 114 years and 183 days when she died from congestive heart failure in San Diego, California, she was the last living documented person born in 1888. She was survived by six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.[7]

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  1. ^ O. Tracy, 1958, The Nations and the Isles: A Study of Missionary Work of the Church of the Nazarene in the Nations, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Italy, and the Isles, the Cape Verde Islands, (Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House), 187-88; Miss Vivian Sloan, letter, July 19, 1995
  2. ^ [unreliable source?]E. Mosteller, 1958, Cape Verde Travelogue, (Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House), 73; Earl Mosteller, letter, Seattle, April 21, 1995; Gene van Note, 1981, Holiness in the Marketplace, (Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City), 18-27.
  3. ^ [original research?][unreliable source?]Vivian Sloan, letter from Lemon Grove, California, October 13, 2001.
  4. ^ "Nazarene Woman, 115, May Be World's Oldest Person," Holiness Today, magazine of the Church of the Nazarene replacing The Herald of Holiness and World Mission, (Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House, July 2001), 40.
  5. ^ Jack Williams, staff writer, article in The San Diego Union-Tribune, (August 24, 2002), A1, A14.
  6. ^ Adelina Domingues, Oldest American, Dies at 114
  7. ^ Adelina Domingues, Oldest American, 114


Betsy Russell Baker (Brington, England, August 20, 1842 - Tecumseh, Nebraska, October 24, 1955) was an American supercentenarian first listed in the 1966 Guinness Book of Records as possibly one of the oldest people ever, and this was confirmed by researchers in 2002. She died 65 days after her 113th birthday, having been only the second person to undisputedly reach that age. The first one was fellow American Delina Filkins in 1928. While Baker was born in England, she was an immigrant to the U.S. at age four. She is the second-oldest person to die in the state of Nebraska. Her record as Nebraska's oldest resident was only broken by Helen Stetter, who died at 113 as well, in 2007. Clara Huhn, who was born in Nebraska, died in California in 2000, aged 113 years and 327 days.


[edit] See also Oldest people Supercentenarian

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