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> I'm of the opinion the 2nd place woman is also not legitimate. She probably just lied about her age so she could marry and then lived incredibly long.

From that link:

> The 1891 directory records that the 1890 US census listed Sarah D. Clark as age 10, which is roughly consistent with a September 1880 birth date.

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Yea, looks like that source came out Dec 2019 which is after I first looked into this.

Very interesting & well written write up! Even though Wikipedia says "Better source needed" for whatever reason.

The author still casts a good amount of doubt on her claim though, and even assuming the existing evidence is correct she still couldve been 116 it says.

But yea as long as you don't have birth certificates or baptism records I guess that would always be true.

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