Margaret Skeete
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Margaret Skeete (October 27, 1878 – May 7, 1994) was an American supercentenarian and the oldest living American from 1993 to 1994. Skeete is the oldest ever person from Texas. She was 115 years and 192 days old at the time of her death, and is the 14th oldest person ever as of August 2007. She was born in Rockport, Texas and died in Radford, Virginia.
Skeete is recorded in the 1880 Census as a 2-year-old. She married Renn Skeete, and later moved on to Virginia, where she died in 1994, after suffering a fall.
She was the last surviving person documented as born in 1878.
[edit] See also
- List of the oldest people
- Oldest people
- Oldest validated person by year of birth
- Supercentenarian
- U.S. state longevity recordholders
