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Maria Sao Pedro Conceicao
Maria Sao Pedro Conceicao
Maria Sao Pedro Conceicao at the claimed age of 118.
Birth: 10 August 1901?
Sao Sebastiao do Passe, Bahia, Brazil
Death: fl.5 February 2021
Sao Francisco do Conde, Bahia, Brazil
Age: 119 years, 179+ days?
Country: BrazilBRA
Longevity claimant

Maria Sao Pedro Conceicao [Portuguese: ...São...Conceição] (10 August 1901? – fl.5 February 2021) was a Brazilian longevity claimant. If her claimed age is true, she would be older than Brazil and South America’s oldest validated person ever, Francisca Celsa dos Santos, and the world’s oldest living validated person. She would also be the second-oldest person in history, being older than Kane Tanaka, but younger than Jeanne Calment. Her age is currently unvalidated by the Guinness World Records (GWR).

Biography[]

Maria Sao Pedro Conceicao claims to have been born in Sao Sebastiao do Passe, Bahia, Brazil on 10 August 1901, the daughter of Maria Felipe Conceicao. She worked until age 17 on a farm in Lamarao, Bahia. She worked in flour houses, planting and caring for the children of farmers, still as enslaved, even after the signing of the Golden Law on 13 May 1888.

She was married to Jose Aniseto dos Anjos for almost 90 years. The couple had six children. Her husband died in 1991 at the claimed age of 110 years. She suffered a stroke at the claimed age of 103.

As of August 2011, she had six children alive (the eldest daughter was age 89).

As of November 2019, she had many children (including Amalia Conceicao), grandchildren (including Giselia Conceicao), great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and great-great-great-grandchildren

On 3 February 2021 at the claimed age of 119, she received her first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Maria Sao Pedro Conceicao was last confirmed alive on 5 February 2021 in Jabequara de Areia neighborhood, Sao Francisco do Conde, Bahia, Brazil, at the claimed age of 119 years, 179 days.

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