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Yepraksia Gevorgyan

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Yepraksia Gevorgyan
Yepraksia Gevorgyan
Birth: 21 April 1914
Laloyi Mavrak, Kars Province, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
Death: 7 October 2020
Armavir, Armavir Province, Armenia
Age: 106 years, 169 days
Country: ArmeniaARM
Centenarian

Yepraksia Barseghyan-Gevorgyan (Armenian: Եպրաքսյա Բարսեղյան-Գեւորգյանը; 21 April 1914 – 7 October 2020) was a Turkish-born Armenian centenarian and the 1915 Genocide survivor. At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Armenia.

Biography

Early life

Yepraksia Barseghyan-Gevorgyan was born in the village of Laloyi Mavrak, Kars Province, Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), on 21 April 1914. Yepraksia fled the Armenian Genocide with her mother and two brothers. Her father was killed by the Ottomans. To escape, her family crossed the Araks River. They moved to Ashtarak, Eghvard and then Aleksandropol (present-day Gyumri in Armenia). Yepraksia’s mother died of starvation when she was nine, and Yepraksia was taken into an American orphanage in Gyumri with his brother. One of her two brothers also went missing during a journey to Gyumri. Her second brother is later adopted and Yepraksia never found him again. In 2015, Yepraksia still wanted to find him. She believed he was adopted and brought to America. His name was Yeghia.

Later life

In 1929, at the age of 15, she married and had five children; four daughters and a son. Her only son died before 2010.

In her passport, Yepraksia's birthday was written as 21 April 1914, but she claimed that she did not have a document to prove her claimed date of birth, she claimed that she was born around 1908. In later years, she lived with her daughter Lena Gevorgyan (aged 89 in 2020).

Yepraksia Barseghyan-Gevorgyan died in Armavir, Armavir Province, Armenia, on 7 October 2020, at the age of 106 years, 169 days.

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