| Nettie Minick | |
 Nettie Minick aged of 109, on 1 November 1960. | |
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Nettie Minick (née Skinner; 3 April 1851 – 28 November 1960) was an American centenarian who was the oldest living person in the world at the time of her death.
Biography[]
Nettie Minick was born as Nettie Skinner in the state of New York, USA on 3 April 1851. Her parents were Ira Skinner and Marinda Randall. Nettie traveled west with her mother and father in a covered wagon when she was six months old. The family settled in Maysville, now known as Harlan.
She married Oliver B Minick in 1869 when she was 18. Oliver died in 1915 at the age of 66, with whom she had 3 children. Her first child died shortly after birth. Her second child Cora Blanche Minick Bartlet died just 5 months before her on 15 June 1960 at the aged of 85, while her last child Bertha Minick Amstutz who was the only of the three alive at the time of her death passed away in at the age of 94 in 1976.
Nettie participated in Harlan's centennial festivities in 1953 when she was 102. Three years later, on her 105th birthday, she was crowned "Queen of the Day" on Easter Sunday in the Harlan Methodist Church, of which she is thought to be the oldest member in Indiana. And she is thought to be the oldest member of Rebeccah Lodge anywhere.
Nettie had been deeply committed to voting since 1920, when women won the right to vote in the United States. The last time she voted was in the 1960 presidential election. A lifelong Republican, she voted for then Vice-President Richard Nixon by absentee ballot at her home on 1 November 1960, at the age of 109 years and 212 days (just 27 days before her death).
Longevity Records[]
On 30 June 1960, she became the oldest living woman in the world and the second-oldest living person in the world (behind the American man Robert Early), after the death of the 110-years-old woman Louise Godejohann also of the USA.
On 9 October 1960, Minick, then aged of 109 years and 189 days, became the oldest living person in the world, after the death of Robert Early dead 1 day after her 111th birthday.
Nettie Minick died in Harlan, Allen County, Indiana, USA, on 28 November 1960, 50 days after becoming the oldest living person in the world, at the age of 109 years, 239 days.
After her death, the American Mary Kelly aged of 109 years and 174 days became the oldest living person in the world.
Gallery[]
References[]
- SEMI-SUPERCENTENARIANS, Gerontology Research Group
- Nettie Skinner Minick, Find a Grave 1
- Nettie Skinner Minick, Find a Grave 2