This is a list of supercentenarians that were born or who died in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of 9 December 2024, 23 have been validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). The oldest person ever from the state is 115 year-old Maggie Barnes (1882 – 1998). The oldest man ever from the state was 111 year-old Aaron Bazemore (1881 – 1992), whose age is validated by the GRG. The current oldest known person in North Carolina is 110-year-old Catherine Ferrell (born 1912).
Supercentenarians born in North Carolina[]
Deceased (Validated) Living (Validated) Disputable Limbo Pending Unvalidated
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth | Death | Age | Place of birth |
State/country of death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maggie Barnes | F | 6 Mar 1882 | 19 Jan 1998 | 115 years, 319 days | Black Creek | Kenly |
| 2 | Eliza Underwood | F | 15 Mar 1866 | 27 Jan 1981 | 114 years, 318 days | Clinton | District of Columbia |
| 3 | Alelia Murphy | F | 6 July 1905 | 23 Nov 2019 | 114 years, 140 days | Grifton | New York |
| 4 | Emma Tillman | F | 22 Nov 1892 | 28 Jan 2007 | 114 years, 67 days | Gibsonville | Connecticut |
| 5 | Christine Ireland | F | 19 Jan 1908 | 18 Aug 2021 | 113 years, 212 days | Cumberland | Burlington |
| 6 | Narcissa Rickman | F | 13 Sept 1855 | 21 Oct 1968 | 113 years, 38 days | Rosman | Hendersonville |
| 7 | Elsie Johnson Maney | F | 28 Mar 1894 | 3 Mar 2007 | 112 years, 340 days | Buncombe County | Weaverville |
| 8 | Ruby Drakeford | F | 25 Jan 1892 | 29 Dec 2004 | 112 years, 339 days | Durham | Durham |
| 9 | Maggie Murdock | F | 19 Aug 1887 | 22 July 1990 | 112 years, 338 days | Orange County | Orange County |
| 10 | Sina Hayes | F | 27 June 1903 | 22 Jan 2016 | 112 years, 209 days | Iredell | Winston-Salem |
| 11 | Ruth Brown-Stamps | F | 22 May 1896 | 8 Nov 2008 | 112 years, 170 days | Milton | Ohio |
| 12 | Melinda Harris | F | 4 May 1898 | 6 Oct 2010 | 112 years, 169 days | Windsor | New Bern |
| 13 | Foy Ingram | F | 28 Nov 1903 | 19 Mar 2016 | 112 years, 112 days | Randolph | Davidson |
| 14 | Lillian Stubbs | F | 30 Apr 1906 | 16 June 2018 | 112 years, 47 days | Hertford | Virginia |
| 15 | Lake Dickson | F | 19 Jan 1897 | 30 Jan 2009 | 112 years, 11 days | Burlington | Charlotte |
| 16 | Catherine Ferrell | F | 10 Oct 1912 | Living | 112 years, 60 days | Warsaw | Durham |
| 17 | Clarina Ragland | F | 28 June 1885 | 18 Feb 1997 | 111 years, 235 days | ? | Pennsylvania |
| Alice Knox | F | 4 Jan 1906 | c.30 June 2017 | 111 years, c.177 days | Elizabeth City | Maryland | |
| 18 | Clara Sutton | F | 14 Mar 1901 | 26 Aug 2012 | 111 years, 165 days | Rockingham County | Reidsville |
| 19 | Claudia Brown | F | 25 Nov 1880 | 12 Sept 1991 | 110 years, 291 days | Snow Hill | Connecticut |
| Melva Stokes | F | 26 May 1909 | 28 Dec 2019 | 110 years, 216 days | Rose Hill | Connecticut | |
| 20 | Katie Sanderlin | F | 18 May 1886 | 7 Nov 1996 | 110 years, 173 days | Jacksonville | Virginia |
| Frank Levingston | M | 13 Nov 1905 | 3 May 2016 | 110 years, 172 days | ? | Louisiana | |
| Dora Credle | F | 21 July 1911 | 9 Jan 2022 | 110 years, 172 days | Wilson | District of Columbia | |
| 21 | Bessie Ritter | F | 1 Oct 1894 | 19 Mar 2005 | 110 years, 169 days | ? | Mississippi |
| Mary Brown | F | 4 July 1909 | 11 Dec 2019 | 110 years, 160 days | Forest City | West Virginia | |
| Tim Newton | M | 18 May 1884 | 13 Oct 1994 | 110 years, 148 days | Wilmington | Florida | |
| Eula Cousins | F | 14 Sept 1902 | 29 Jan 2013 | 110 years, 137 days | Elizabeth City | Pennsylvania | |
| Blanche Nelson | F | 22 Feb 1898 | 14 Apr 2008 | 110 years, 52 days | ? | New York | |
| Annie Aller | F | 18 Nov 1908 | 21 Nov 2018 | 110 years, 3 days | Mantio | Iowa |
Supercentenarians who died in North Carolina[]
Deceased (Validated) Living (Validated) Pending Unvalidated
| Place of | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Name | Sex | Birth | Death | Age | birth | death |
| 1 | Maggie Barnes | F | 6 Mar 1882 | 19 Jan 1998 | 115 years, 319 days | Black Creek | Kenly |
| 2 | Hester Ford | F | 15 Aug 1905 | 17 Apr 2021 | 115 years, 245 days | Lancaster, South Carolina | Charlotte |
| 3 | Christine Ireland | F | 19 Jan 1908 | 18 Aug 2021 | 113 years, 212 days | Cumberland | Burlington |
| 4 | Frances Street | F | 28 Mar 1897 | 24 Aug 2010 | 113 years, 149 days | Greenville County, South Carolina | Asheville |
| 5 | Narcissa Rickman | F | 13 Sept 1855 | 21 Oct 1968 | 113 years, 38 days | Rosman | Hendersonville |
| 5 | Mary Will | F | 15 Oct 1900 | 2 Nov 2013 | 113 years, 18 days | Monroe | Charlotte |
| 6 | Elsie Johnson Maney | F | 28 Mar 1894 | 3 Mar 2007 | 112 years, 340 days | Buncombe County | Weaverville |
| 7 | Ruby Drakeford | F | 25 Jan 1892 | 29 Dec 2004 | 112 years, 339 days | Durham | Durham |
| 8 | Maggie Murdock | F | 19 Aug 1887 | 22 July 2000 | 112 years, 338 days | Orange County | Orange County |
| 9 | Edna Bowman | F | 3 June 1901 | 19 Apr 2014 | 112 years, 320 days | ?, Maine | Candler |
| 10 | Sina Hayes | F | 27 June 1903 | 22 Jan 2016 | 112 years, 209 days | Iredell | Winston-Salem |
| 11 | Ruth Bruce | F | 8 Oct 1898 | 8 Apr 2011 | 112 years, 182 days | South Carolina | Durham |
| Melinda Harris | F | 4 May 1898 | 6 Oct 2010 | 112 years, 169 days | Windsor | New Bern | |
| 12 | Ethel Boltz | F | 2 Dec 1903 | 1 Apr 2016 | 112 years, 121 days | ?, West Virginia | Durham |
| Annie Wilson | F | 19 Apr 1910 | 17 Aug 2022 | 112 years, 119 days | ? | Pineville | |
| 13 | Foy Ingram | F | 28 Nov 1903 | 19 Mar 2016 | 112 years, 112 days | Randolph | Davidson |
| Susie Brunson | F | 25 Oct 1882 | 29 Nov 1994 | 112 years, 35 days | Bamberg, South Carolina | Wilmington | |
| Reatha Robinson | F | 17 July 1906 | 5 Aug 2018 | 112 years, 19 days | ? | Hampstead | |
| 14 | Lake Dickson | F | 19 Jan 1897 | 30 Jan 2009 | 112 years, 11 days | Burlington | Charlotte |
| Maggie DeVane | F | 17 Nov 1905 | 12 Sept 2017 | 111 years, 299 days | ? | ? | |
| 15 | Jean Christy | F | 20 Aug 1904 | 28 May 2016 | 111 years, 282 days | Andrews | Andrews [1] |
| 16 | Catherine Ferrell | F | 10 Oct 1912 | Living | 112 years, 60 days | Warsaw | Durham |
| 17 | Armida Sholar | F | 9 Aug 1905 | 4 Apr 2017 | 111 years, 238 days | Sumter, South Carolina | Greensboro |
| Arrelia High | F | 2 Jul 1903 | 22 Feb 2015 | 111 years, 235 days | ? | Elizabethtown | |
| 18 | Iva Shumate | F | 4 Nov 1887 | 11 June 1999 | 111 years, 219 days | Jackson | Black Mountain |
| 19 | Clara Sutton | F | 14 Mar 1901 | 26 Aug 2012 | 111 years, 165 days | Rockingham County | Reidsville |
| 20 | Florence McKoy | F | 23 Feb 1903 | 4 Aug 2014 | 111 years, 162 days | ? | Elizabethtown |
| Ruby Clodfelter | F | 26 Jul 1905 | 19 Nov 2016 | 111 years, 116 days | McDowell | Morganton | |
| Lillie Nunn | F | 25 Sept 1909 | 25 Dec 2020 | 111 years, 91 days | ? | Westfield | |
| 21 | Aaron Bazemore | M | 20 Feb 1881 | 10 Apr 1992 | 111 years, 50 days | Windsor | Windsor |
| Agnes Donahoe | F | 8 Dec 1907 | 16 Jan 2019 | 111 years, 39 days | Gordon, Virginia | Snow Camp | |
| Dorothy Keller | F | 28 Sept 1907 | 3 Nov 2018 | 111 years, 36 days | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Greensboro | |
| Gabriel Alston | M | 7 Nov 1906 | 4 Nov 2017 | 110 years, 362 days | Cary | Cary | |
| Bertha McGimsey | F | 13 July 1900 | 24 Apr 2011 | 110 years, 285 days | Statesville | Morganton [2] | |
| 22 | Trudie Martin | F | 19 Oct 1901 | 27 July 2012 | 110 years, 282 days | ? | Winston-Salem |
| Eunice Greene | F | 8 Sept 1903 | 15 June 2014 | 110 years, 280 days | ? | Goldsboro | |
| 23 | Carrie McDonald | F | 4 Dec 1894 | 30 Aug 2005 | 110 years, 269 days | ?, South Carolina | ? |
| Virginia Van Peenen | F | 29 Jan 1912 | 25 Oct 2022 | 110 years, 269 days | Kalamazoo, Michigan | Cary | |
| 24 | Effie Burress | F | 12 April 1881 | 19 Dec 1991 | 110 years, 251 days | Brevard | Hazlewood |
| 25 | Lilly Barnes | F | 5 Nov 1875 | 6 May 1986 | 110 years, 182 days | ? | ? |
| Lorena Allen | F | 10 Aug 1910 | 3 Jan 2021 | 110 years, 146 days | ? | Carthage | |
| 26 | Susie Alston | F | 6 Jul 1898 | 28 Nov 2008 | 110 years, 145 days | ? | Raleigh |
| 27 | Josie Bullington | F | 26 Sept 1883 | 18 Feb 1994 | 110 years, 145 days | Exton, Virginia | Danbury |
| 28 | Mary Grant | F | 22 Nov 1891 | 2 Apr 2002 | 110 years, 131 days | ? | Kinston |
| Lexie Holbrook | F | 22 Nov 1907 | 30 Mar 2018 | 110 years, 128 days | ? | North Wilkesboro | |
| Catherine Holman | F | 16 Mar 1864 | 11 Jul 1974 | 110 years, 117 days | Caswell | Durham | |
| 29 | Edith Freehling | F | 12 Sept 1883 | 29 Dec 1993 | 110 years, 108 days | Jefferson, Pennsylvania | Hendersonville |
| Geneva Williamson | F | 7 Nov 1909 | 12 Feb 2020 | 110 years, 97 days | ? | Reidsville | |
| 30 | Ida Ellington Williams | F | 1 July 1875 | 21 Sep 1985 | 110 years, 82 days | ?, Kentucky | ? |
| Pauline Ivey | F | 2 Feb 1908 | 13 Apr 2018 | 110 years, 70 days | ? | ? | |
| Esther Pennington | F | 20 June 1910 | 26 Aug 2020 | 110 years, 67 days | ? | West Jefferson | |
| Lois Work | F | 19 Dec 1906 | 5 Feb 2017 | 110 years, 48 days | Mooresville | Mooresville | |
| Norma McMenamin | F | 11 Apr 1902 | 23 May 2012 | 110 years, 42 days | ? | High Point | |
| 31 | Wilhelmine Gnueg | F | 12 Mar 1894 | 17 Apr 2004 | 110 years, 36 days |  GER |
Raleigh |
| Rochelle Pope | F | 9 Mar 1908 | 14 Apr 2018 | 110 years, 36 days | Mingo | Dunn | |
Note: This list might not be complete and other people can be added, unvalidated and validated.
Questionable cases[]
| Place of | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Sex | Birth | Death | Age | birth | death |
| Martha Graham | F | 27 Dec 1844? | 25 June 1959 | 114 years, 182 days? | ?, Virginia | ? |
| Alberta Liles | F | 21 Aug 1904? | 30 Dec 2017 | 113 years, 131 days? | Wadesboro | Winston-Salem |
| Matilda Duckett Rogers | F | 2 Oct 1850? | 15 Sept 1963 | 112 years, 343 days? | Fines Creek | Haywood |
| Mandie Kenan | F | 13 Mar 1904? | 8 Dec 2015 | 112 years, 270 days? | Wallace | Beulaville |
Oldest person in North Carolina since 1992[]
Validated / Under 110
Pending
Unvalidated Supercentenarian
Current Titleholder
| From | To | Name | Sex | Age when oldest |
Lifespan | Place of death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ? | 10 Apr 1992 (?) |
Aaron Bazemore | M | ?-111 | 20 Feb 1881 - 10 Apr 1992 111 years, 50 days |
Windsor |
| 10 Apr 1992 | 19 Jan 1998 (5 years, 284 days) |
Maggie Barnes | F | 110- 115 | 6 Mar 1882 – 19 Jan 1998 115 years, 319 days |
Kenly |
| 19 Jan 1998 | 22 Jul 2000 (2 years, 185 days) |
Maggie Murdock | F | 110- 112 | 19 Aug 1887 – 22 Jul 2000 112 years, 338 days |
Orange County |
| 22 Jul 2000 | 20 Apr 2002 (1 year, 272 days) |
Mary Grant | F | 108- 110 | 22 Nov 1891 – 20 Apr 2002 110 years, 131 days |
Kinston |
| 20 Apr 2002 | 29 Dec 2004 (2 years, 253 days) |
Ruby Drakeford | F | 110- 112 | 25 Jan 1892 – 29 Dec 2004 112 years, 339 days |
Durham |
| 29 Dec 2004 | 3 Mar 2007 (2 years, 64 days) |
Elsie Johnson Maney | F | 110- 112 | 28 Mar 1894 – 3 Mar 2007 112 years, 340 days |
Weaverville |
| 3 Mar 2007 | 30 Jan 2009 (1 year, 334 days) |
Lake Dickson | F | 110- 112 | 19 Jan 1897 – 30 Jan 2009 112 years, 11 days |
Charlotte |
| 30 Jan 2009 | 24 Aug 2010 (1 year, 206 days) |
Frances Street | F | 111- 113 | 28 Mar 1897 – 24 Aug 2010 113 years, 149 days |
Asheville |
| 24 Aug 2010 | 6 Oct 2010 (43 days) |
Melinda Harris | F | 112 | 4 May 1898 – 6 Oct 2010 112 years, 169 days |
New Bern |
| 6 Oct 2010 | 8 Apr 2011 (184 days) |
Ruth Bruce | F | 111 – 112 | 8 Oct 1898 – 8 Apr 2011 112 years, 182 days |
Durham |
| 8 Apr 2011 | 24 Apr 2011 (16 days) |
Bertha McGimsey | F | 110 | 13 Jul 1900 – 24 Apr 2011 110 years, 285 days |
Morganton |
| 24 Apr 2011 | 2 Nov 2013 (2 years, 192 days) |
Mary Will | F | 110 – 113 | 15 Oct 1900 – 2 Nov 2013 113 years, 18 days |
Charlotte |
| 2 Nov 2013 | 19 Apr 2014 (168 days) |
Edna Bowman | F | 112 | 3 Jun 1901 – 19 Apr 2014 112 years, 320 days |
Candler |
| 19 Apr 2014 | 4 Aug 2014 (107 days) |
Florence McKoy | F | 111 | 23 Feb 1903 – 4 Aug 2014 111 years, 162 days |
Elizabethtown |
| 4 Aug 2014 | 22 Jan 2016 (1 year, 171 days) |
Sina Hayes | F | 111 – 112 | 27 Jun 1903 – 22 Jan 2016 112 years, 209 days |
Winston-Salem |
| 22 Jan 2016 | 19 Mar 2016 (57 days) |
Foy Ingram | F | 112 | 28 Nov 1903 – 19 Mar 2016 112 years, 112 days |
Davidson |
| 19 Mar 2016 | 1 Apr 2016 (13 days) |
Ethel Boltz | F | 112 | 2 Dec 1903 – 1 Apr 2016 112 years, 121 days |
Durham |
| 1 Apr 2016 | 28 May 2016 (57 days) |
Jean Christy | F | 111 | 20 Aug 1904 – 28 May 2016 111 years, 282 days |
Andrews |
| 28 May 2016 | 4 Apr 2017 (311 days) |
Armida Sholar | F | 110 – 111 | 9 Aug 1905 – 4 Apr 2017 111 years, 238 days |
Greensboro |
| 4 Apr 2017 | 17 Apr 2021 (4 years, 13 days) |
Hester Ford | F | 111 – 115 | 15 Aug 1905 – 17 Apr 2021 115 years, 236 days |
Charlotte |
| 17 Apr 2021 | 18 Aug 2021 (123 days) |
Christine Ireland | F | 113 | 19 Jan 1908 – 18 Aug 2021 113 years, 212 days |
Burlington |
| 18 Aug 2021 | 17 Aug 2022 (364 days) |
Annie Wilson | F | 111 – 112 | 20 Apr 1910 – 17 Aug 2022 112 years, 119 days |
Pineville |
| 17 Aug 2022 | 25 Oct 2022 (69 days) |
Virginia Van Peenen | F | 110 | 29 Jan 1912 – 25 Oct 2022 110 years, 269 days |
Cary |
| 25 Oct 2022 | Present (2 years, 45 days) |
Catherine Ferrell | F | 110-111* | Born 10 Oct 1912 112 years, 60 days |
Lives in Durham |
References[]
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