| Joseph Alexander Kiel | |
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| Birth: | 5 August 1892 Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos islands |
| Death: | 2001/2002 Turks and Caicos islands |
| Age: | 109 years |
| Country: |  TCA
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| Centenarian | |
Joseph Alexander Kiel (5 August 1892 – 2001/2002) was a centenarian from the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Biography[]
Joseph Alexander Kiel was born in Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos islands on 5 August 1892. His father came from Bermuda in the late 1800s and settled in Grand Turk and worked for the Gibbs family, who had ponds on the East side of Palm Grove. As a young boy Joseph spent his youth in Salt Cay with his aunt Margaret Goode. They lived in Government House.[1]
For a few years Mr. Kiel was the assistant lighthouse keeper in Grand Turk lighthouse and his job was to take care of the horses and fuel the lamps. He witnessed the cargo ship the Antillion, sank on the reef, northeast of the lighthouse in 1912. Mr. Kiel at the time was a coachman for Commissioner Harold Earnest Phillips and every day would ride him into town. During his spare moments Mr. Kiel would stay on the kitchen side of the coach house and practice shooting birds out of the almond tree on the south side using scatter shot with cartridge no: 12, which was called a muzzle loader.
Joseph Kiel spent the last 17 years of his life in the ‘Old People’s Wing’ in Grand Turk hospital. He died between 2001 and 2002 at the age of 109 years old.[2] He was the oldest man ever from Turks and Caicos Islands.