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City of
Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 Aaron Bazemore 20 February 1881 10 April 1992 111 Years 50 Days Windsor Windsor
2 Herbert Elkins 13 March 1893 11 November 2002 109 years, 244 days Buncombe County Asheville
3 Razie Smith 8 August 1908 14 December 2017 109 years 128 days Clinton Clinton
4 Amos Ledford 15 October 1870 3 December 1979 109 Years 49 Days Bald Mountain Bald Mountain
5 Belve Lipford 14 February 1880 9 February 1989 108 Years 361 Days Wilkesboro Wilkesboro
6 Frederick C Penney 3 February 1850 21 January 1959 108 Years 352 Days Maine Tryon
7 Carl Bryson 31 August 1892 28 June 2001 108 Years 301 Days Iron Duff Iron Duff
8 James Moore 2 January 1882 29 October 1990 108 Years 300 Days South Carolina High Point
9 William Pruitt 19 June 1884 4 February 1993 108 years 230 days Danbury Spray
10 James Redding 13 February 1886 3 September 1994 108 Years 202 Days Dennysville Dennysville
11 Fran Mariea 2 April 1909 26 August 2017 108 years, 146 days New York Moorsville
12 Henry Black 15 April 1881 28 August 1989 108 years 135 days Sanford Sanford
13 Oliver Withers 13 October 1909 3 February 2018 108 years, 113 days Charlotte Charlotte
14 James Overby 14 February 1867 22 October 1974 107 Years 250 Days Kenly Kenly
15 Macon "Bob" Woodard 8 July 1903 10 March 2011 107 years 245 days Raleigh Raleigh
16 Robert Weddington 10 March 1896 4 November 2003 107 Years 239 days Cabarrus County Huntersville
17 Lester Gaddy 25 December 1899 18 August 2007 107 years 236 days Gullege township Peachland
18 Nathan Saulter 2 December 1883 28 February 1991 107 Years 88 Days Armour Lake Waccamaw
19 Francis McCullough 11 September 1908 26 November 2015 107 years, 76 days Georgia Rocky Mount
20 William Griffin 24 December 1908 18 February 2016 107 years, 56 days Durham Durham
21 Levie Wilson 22 March 1906 16 March 2013 106 years 359 days Bald Mountain Asheville
22 Sam A Lowe 1 January 1883 6 December 1989 106 Years 339 Days Asheboro Asheboro
23 Newell J. Matthews 18 November 1853 15 October 1960 106 Years 332 Days Unknown Pilot Mountain
24 Harold "Gus" Eliason 27 February 1904 12 August 2010 106 years 166 days West Virginia Durham
25 Pete Weaver 5 October 1905 1 January 2012 106 years 88 days Union Mills Union Mills
26 Gurnie Kirkman 4 October 1876 27 December 1982 106 Years 84 Days Mount Airy Mount Airy
27 Will Surgeon 15 December 1882 9 February 1989 106 Years 56 Days Pleasant Garden Pleasant Garden
28 Albert  Tucker 8 March 1891 5 April 1997 106 Years 28 Days Oakboro Oakboro
29 Dozier Jordan 6 October 1888 9 October 1994 106 Years 3 Days South Carolina Graham
30 Eugene Britt 1 January 1899 3 January 2005 106 years, 2 days Wake County Durham
31 Robert  Gravitte 21 October 1892 12 September 1998 105 Years 325 Days Pilot Mountain Stokes County
32 Carl Vanhoy 25 June 1908 12 May 2014 105 years 321 days Wilkes County Jonesville
33 Joseph Meekins 11 February 1892 25 December 1997 105 Years 317 Days Wanchese Barco
34 John Bishop 6 April 1883 6 February 1990 105 Years 306 Days Magnolia Wilmington
35 Benjamin Duncan 12 June 1882 4 March 1988 105 Years 266 Days Clayton Jacksonville
36 Herbert Fisher 10 June 1905 27 February 2011 105 years, 262 days James City James City
37 Arnold "Bud" Black 3 January 1904 12 September 2009 105 years 252 days Cherryville Gastonia
38 Emmett Wright 28 January 1908 4 August 2013 105 years 188 days Candler Candler
39 Nasby Dellinger 27 April 1881 28 October 1986 105 Years 184 Days Davidson Davidson
40 Talmadge Nelson 27 February 1906 28 August 2011 105 years 182 days Graham Graham
41 Willie Langston 25 March 1883 8 September 1988 105 Years 167 Days Mitonsville Township Elizabeth City
42 Hoosik Synn 24 June 1905 10 November 2010 105 years 139 days South KoreaKOR Mathews
43 J.C. Leon Danner 5 June 1908 6 October 2013 105 years 123 days Hickory Hickory
44 Hery Stenhouse 7 December 1889 28 March 1995 105 Years 111 Days Colorado Goldsboro
45 Winfred Jones 13 October 1881 26 January 1987 105 Years 105 Days Black Mountain Brevard
46 Lemuel Dermid 5 January 1864 29 March 1969 105 Years 83 Days Hendersonville Hendersonville
47 John Wesley Huskins 13 February 1858 13 April 1963 105 Years 59 Days Unknown Bakersville
48 Raymond Hord 17 May 1898 14 July 2003 105 years 58 days Waco Shelby
49 Bruce Rogers 3 June 1908 26 July 2013 105 years 53 days South Carolina Durham
50 Herman Kemp 20 November 1902 11 March 2007 105 years 50 days Unknown Louisburg

Men who were born in North Carolina who moved[]

City of
Rank Name Birth Death Age birth death
1 Eugene Faust 7 February 1888 1 September 1996 108 years 207 days Sedalia Massachusetts
2 William Conoley September 1871 15 August 1978 106 Years 319 Days Lumber Bridge Florida
3 Joseph Roark 14 March 1899 2 June 2005 106 years 80 days Danbury Texas
4 Noah Brock 14 August 1836 10 June 1942 105 years 300 days Farmington Indiana
5 James Simpson 24 August 1879 5 May 1985 105 Years 254 Days Creswell Virginia
6 Luther Byrd 10 January 1904 21 September 2009 105 years 254 days Minneapolis Ohio
7 Hubert Turner 15 March 1915 21 October 2020 105 years 220 days Wake County Georgia
8 William Jobe Smith 15 October 1855 19 May 1961 105 Years 216 Days Boone Oklahoma
9 Eugene Hall 13 September 1886 6 January 1992 105 Years 115 Days Concord South Carolina
10 John Ledford 13 August 1865 6 November 1970 105 Years 85 Days Madison County Washington



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