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“She was a pillar and stalwart to our family and provided much needed love, support and understanding to us all,” said her great-granddaughter, Tanisha Patterson-Powe. Ford was born on a farm in Lancaster County, South Carolina, in 1905, if you accept the more conservative estimate of her age. She married John Ford at age 14, and gave birth to the first of her 12 children at age 15. The couple moved to Charlotte, where she remained for the rest of her life. Her husband died in 1963 at age 57, three years after the couple moved to Charlotte. Ford then lived in the home on her own, without ...

‘Her light shined’: Charlotte’s Hester Ford, oldest living American, dies at 116 years old Charlotte’s Hester Ford, previously oldest living American, dies at 115 years old (Source: WBTV) By WBTV Web Staff | April 17, 2021 at 5:47 PM CDT - Updated April 19 at 4:52 PM CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Hester Ford, born in 1904, moved to Charlotte in the 1950s. Ford has seen a lot in her lifetime, more than anyone in the United States. She had been known as the oldest living American at 116 years old. Ford died Saturday, according to her great-granddaughter. “Her light sh...

'A pillar and stalwart': Hester Ford, the oldest person in US, dies at 115 (or maybe 116)

A North Carolina woman who lived through the Spanish flu, World Wars I and II and the civil rights movement died Sunday, according to her family. Hester Ford was either 115 or 116. Her family said U.S. Census Bureau documents suggest she was born in 1905, but another set of Census Bureau documents point to 1904, CBS reported. At either 115 or 116, Ford was the oldest person on record from the United States as of July 30, according to data compiled by the Gerontology Research Group. Ford was born on a farm in Lancaster County, South Carolina. She grew up picking cotton and married her hus...

National News Apr 19, 2021 File-This Aug. 13, 2016, file photo shows Roosevelt Patterson greeting his grandmother Hester "Granny" Ford during Ford's 111th birthday party. Ford was either 115 or 116 years old depending on which census report was accurate. Either way, she was the oldest living American when she died Saturday, April 17, 2021, in Charlotte, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks “supercentenarians.” They listed her age as 115 years and 245 days. (Diedra Laird/The Charlotte Observer via AP, File) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman who grew up ...