The oldest person in the world who was the last living subject of Queen Victoria and worked for ‘masters’ on a Caribbean sugar plantation has died aged 117.
Violet Mosse Brown died in Jamaica at around 2.30pm yesterday.
Daily Mail reports that she became the world’s oldest person on April 15 this year at 117 and 38 days, taking the title from Italian Emma Morano, whose life spanned three centuries and was born in 1899.
Violet Mosse Brown (pictured) has died in Jamaica aged 117. She became the world’s oldest person in April this year after the death of fellow 117-year-old Emma Morano, from Italy +5
Known as ‘Aunt V’ to her friends, she was born on March 10 1900 and lived in the same house in Trelawney, north west Jamaica all of her life.
She was a mother of six and a great-grandmother several times over.
Asked what was the secret to long life, she replied that eating cows feet, not drinking rum and reading the bible were key.
She told the Jamaican Observer after her 110th birthday: ‘Really and truly, when people ask what me eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken, and I don’t drink rum and them things.
‘You know, sometimes I ask myself, ‘Am I really 110 years old?’ because I don’t feel like 110.’
117-year-old Jamaican woman is World’s oldest living person
culled from http://www.dailymail.co.uk
