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Jeffrey Capron
Jeffrey Capron
Jeffrey Capron on his 107th birthday in 2021
Birth: 16 May 1914
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
Death: 22 January 2022
Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas
Age: 107 years, 251 days
Country: Turks and Caicos IslandsTCAThe BahamasBHS
Centenarian

Jeffrey Capron (16 May 1914 – 22 January 2022) was a Turks and Caicos Islander-Bahamian centenarian who was the oldest known living person in Bahamas and oldest known living person born in Turks and Caicos Islands at the time of his death.

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Jeffrey Capron was born in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands on 16 May 1914. His grandmother was a slave until set free from slavery by Queen Victoria.

He attended an all age school until the age of 14, when he was put on a boat to find work in order to help support his family. Capron would spend a portion of his life working as the cook on a boat crew, where his brother was the captain.

On his 105th birthday in 2019, he was still lucid and active. He became the oldest known living person in the Bahamas, following the death of 106-year-old Ellen Clarke on 22 December 2020.

Jeffrey Capron died in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas on 22 January 2022 at the age 107 years, 251 days. He is also the oldest known man to ever live in the Bahamas.

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