Adelina Domingues

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Adelina Engargiola Domingues (February 19, 1888 - August 21, 2002) was born to an Italian sea captain and a Cape Verdean woman in Brava 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 in 1907, where she worked as a seamstress and raised four children. Adelina later moved to Southern California, following her husband's death in 1950. Outliving her own children, she would eventually succeed another immigrant, Grace Clawson, as the oldest documented person in the U.S. when the latter died in May 2002.

Aged 114 years and 183 days when she died, she was the last living documented person born in 1888.