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Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 Garland Adair 30 July 1898 11 December 2009 111 years, 134 days Hatfield Bethany
2 Robert Freeman 22 December 1879 24 December 1990 111 years, 2 days Mississippi Lewistown
3 Ardra King 6 April 1886 23 April 1996 110 years, 17 days Indiana Buffalo
4 Arthur Cook 4 May 1895 24 March 2005 109 years, 324 days Kansas St. Joseph
5 Roten Young 5 April 1857 29 December 1966 109 years, 268 days Springfield Springfield
6 Loyd Hardaway 1 June 1871 31 January 1981 109 years, 243 days Kentucky Carthage
7 Joseph Phillips 18 Mar 1880 24 Oct 1989 109 years, 220 days Mississippi St. Louis
8 Felix Loring 15 April 1876 18 September 1985 109 years, 156 days Oklahoma Lebanon
9 Loren Reid 26 August 1905 25 December 2014 109 years, 121 days Gilman City Columbia
10 Noah Moore 4 May 1883 29 January 1992 108 years, 270 days Hartville Rolla
11 Fred Robb 16 October 1896 28 March 2005 108 years, 163 days Wentworth Springfield
12 John Graves 1 January 1842 9 May 1950 108 years, 128 days Pike County Higginsville
13 Joseph Devenyns 26 March 1897 29 July 2005 108 years, 125 days Belgique Perryvile
14 Leonard Dark 31 August 1905 19 November 2013 108 years, 80 days Lee's Summit Lee's Summit
15 Jonas Alexander 20 March 1867 4 June 1975 108 years, 76 days Warsaw Warsaw
16 Umberto “Bert” Berti 28 April 1886 13 July 1994 108 years, 76 days ItalyITA Macon
17 Willie Dawson 6 December 1914 17 January 2023 108 years, 42 days Georgia St. Louis
18 Arnold Vouga 20 June 1908 24 May 2016 107 years, 339 days St Louis St Louis
19 Ralph Benson 19 December 1909 15 October 2017 107 years, 300 days Arkansas Kansas City
20 Paul Sunderland 24 April 1896 9 January 2004 107 years, 260 days Nebraska Kansas City
21 Elmer Lake 30 July 1888 23 February 1996 107 years, 208 days Breckenridge Tuscumbia
22 Homer Patchin 15 August 1905 20 January 2013 107 years, 158 days Gentry County Kansas City
23 Thomas Tucker 27 August 1854 17 December 1961 107 years, 112 days Saint Charles Fulton
24 Ernest Reimann 24 December 1906 10 April 2014 107 years 107 days Egypt Mills Egypt Mills
25 Harry Vanderford 1 March 1904 1 June 2011 107 years, 92 days Kansas City Gladstone
26 Will Wright 14 January 1880 13 March 1987 107 years, 58 days Kentucky Sedalia
27 Jasper N. Pyatt 8 November 1882 13 December 1989 107 years, 35 days Boss Salem
28 William Whitehead 22 September 1855 21 August 1962 106 years, 333 days New York Macon
29 Chester Lorenzen 26 July 1894 3 June 2001 106 years, 312 days Nebraska Ava
30 Charles Plackmeyer 28 October 1904 5 August 2011 106 years, 281 days Moberly St Charles
31 Andrew Moritz 1 November 1861 20 July 1967 106 years, 261 days GermanyGER Buckhart
32 Albert Thurman 24 October 1887 13 May 1994 106 years, 201 days Mississippi Kansas City
33 Frank Owings 12 March 1860 23 September 1966 106 years, 184 days Tyler Township Sturgeon
34 Charles Chapman 9 November 1876 23 April 1983 106 years, 165 days Anderson Neosho
35 Albert R. Alexander 8 November 1859 30 March 1966 106 years, 142 days CanadaCAN Ontario Plattsburg
36 Clyde Herring 24 August 1873 9 January 1980 106 years, 138 days Fulton Fulton
37 Osa Tennyson 5 August 1894 13 December 2000 106 years, 130 days Mokane Fulton
38 John Banker 14 December 1864 19 March 1971 106 years, 125 days Iowa St. Louis
39 Lawrence Smithson 16 October 1896 25 January 2003 106 years, 101 days Arkansas Warrensburg
40 Clarence King 9 November 1890 16 February 1997 106 years, 99 days Galena Joplin
41 Albert Immel 17 June 1888 15 September 1994 106 years, 90 days Joplin Joplin
42 Sterling Price Reynolds 9 November 1861 13 January 1968 106 years, 65 days Callaway County Hayti
43 James Brock 12 October 1903 25 November 2009 106 years, 44 days Scotland Sarcoxie
44 Hiram Lockhart 24 April 1872 12 May 1978 106 years, 18 days Unknown Hopkins
45 Walter Heiman 12 March 1901 18 March 2008 106 years, 6 days GermanyGER St. Louis
46 Elves “Hap” Goodman 26 May 1894 12 May 2000 105 years, 352 days Illinois Cape Girardeau
47 Henry Caddell 20 July 1876 30 May 1982 105 years, 314 days Chillicothe Chillicothe
48 James Reagan 13 March 1863 6 December 1968 105 years, 268 days Madison County Poplar Bluff
49 Floyd McComas 29 July 1909 27 February 2015 105 years 213 days Nevada Nevada
50 Henderson Jessee 1 August 1882 26 February 1882 105 years, 209 days Virginia Barnard

Men who were born in Missouri who moved[]

City of
Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 Frank Buckles 1 February 1901 27 February 2011 110 years, 26 days Bethany West Virginia
2 August Barberi 25 September 1912 27 August 2022 109 years, 336 days Kansas City Illinois
3 Victor Peters 29 September 1902 12 August 2012 109 years, 317 days Kansas City Nevada
4 Orville Nightingale 25 October 1904 31 August 2014 109 years, 310 days Kansas City California
5 William Crooks 4 August 1893 15 February 2003 109 years, 195 days Henry County Ohio
6 Charles “Charley” Walpert 12 August 1882 14 February 1992 109 years, 186 days Unknown California
7 Rolla Zuck 20 September 1905 13 February 2015 109 years, 146 days Dudley Michigan
8 George Reader 13 September 1906 5 November 2015 109 years, 53 days Sprague Illinois
9 William Stephenson 26 January 1881 22 January 1990 108 years, 361 days Shelbyville Montana
10 Preston Johnson 1 February 1880 25 January 1989 108 years, 358 days Sedalia Idaho
11 James W. Smith 8 July 1842 22 March 1951 108 years, 265 days Buchanan County Oregon
12 Harry Purdy 25 November 1893 19 July 2002 108 years, 236 days Mulberry Washington
13 William Lake 30 October 1895 19 June 2004 108 years, 233 days Ralls County Washington
14 Homer Skillion 12 March 1902 4 October 2010 108 years, 206 days Portageville California
15 Ira Allen 22 June 1909 12 January 2018 108 years, 204 days Wright County Kansas
16 Halford Pope 24 August 1903 14 February 2012 108 years, 174 days Kansas City South Carolina
17 Alexander McLachlan 23 June 1909 9 Dec 2017 108 years, 169 days Unknown Louisiana
18 Elmer Christiansan 10 August 1913 20 January 2022 108 years, 163 days St. Joseph Kansas
19 Robert Inman 18 April 1880 4 July 1988 108 years, 77 days Marshfield ParaguayPAR
20 Harry Landis 12 December 1899 4 February 2008 108 years, 54 days Palmyra Florida
21 John Fish 17 Mar 1867 19 May 1975 108 years, 2 days Unknown Arkansas
22 Charles Masengale 21 February 1909 2 December 2016 107 years 285 days Wheatland California
23 Augustus Stewart 27 August 1866 18 February 1974 107 years, 185 days Bolivar New York
24 William Stafford 2 August 1872 29 November 1979 107 years, 119 days Saline County Tennessee
25 Albert Rainwater 22 July 1888 20 August 1995 107 years, 29 days Polk Township Texas
26 Charles Riffey 1 February 1887 7 February 1994 107 years, 6 days Newton County Kansas
27 Oliver Sullens 7 September 1892 23 May 1999 106 years, 258 days Hickory Hill Oklahoma
28 George Hall 15 February 1908 20 November 2014 106 years 250 days Cleveland New York
29 Henry Mauss 27 September 1898 3 June 2005 106 years, 249 days Climax Springs Wyoming
30 Robert Hendershott 7 August 1898 23 March 2005 106 years, 228 days Saint Louis Iowa
31 William Earnest 21 September 1880 13 January 1987 106 years, 114 days Weaubleau Kansas
32 Otho H. Hunter 12 November 1886 23 February 1993 106 years, 103 days Maitland CanadaCAN Alberta
33 William Glasscock 3 September 1873 13 December 1979 106 years, 101 days Sedalia California
33 Leon Saliba 22 February 1911 3 June 2017 106 years 101 days Campell California
35 John Cole 11 October 1882 30 December 1988 106 years, 80 days Unknown Oklahoma
36 Irvin Poff 25 April 1919 Living 106 years, 80 days Kansas City California
37 Eugene Homsley 18 November 1877 14 December 1983 106 years, 26 days Columbia Connecticut
38 Pern Hunter 29 March 1907 15 April 2013 106 years 17 days Joplin Florida
39 Orda Foster 15 September 1902 11 September 2008 105 years, 362 days Hartsville Arkansas
40 Ralph Gregory 27 September 1909 25 September 2015 105 years 364 days Washington Arizona
41 Oscar Whitener 3 June 1886 17 April 1992 105 years, 319 days Gravelton Illinois
42 Grover Chesnut 25 November 1892 19 September 1998 105 years, 298 days West Plains Washington
43 Othel “Teck” Sloan 4 January 1904 9 October 2009 105 years, 278 days Ozark Oklahoma
44 Robert Grigsby 8 March 1867 7 October 1972 105 years, 213 days Hannibal Kansas
45 James Cutshall 23 July 1867 24 January 1973 105 years, 185 days Vinton Nebraska
46 T. B. McKinney 11 January 1859 2 July 1964 105 years, 173 days Houston Kansas
47 Alvin Johnsen 4 February 1896 7 June 2001 105 years, 123 days Holt Nebraska
48 Frederick Hauenstein 17 February 1880 9 March 1985 105 years, 19 days Miller County California
49 Charles “Charlie” Talbot 21 September 1886 7 October 1991 105 years, 16 days Adrian New Mexico
50 Elijah Russell 29 March 1887 31 March 1992 105 years, 2 days Bolivar Kansas



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