| Alice Coles | |
 Alice Coles in 1968. | |
| Birth: | 28 August 1865 Charlottesville, Virginia, USA |
| Death: | 5 November 1978 Syracuse, New York, USA |
| Age: | 113 years, 69 days |
| Country: |  USA
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| Validated | |
Not to be confused with Alice Cole.
Alice Coles (née Flannagan; 28 August 1865 – 5 November 1978) was an American supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group. At the time of her death, she was the world's oldest validated living person.
Biography[]
Alice Flannagan was born in Charlottesville, Virginia as the daughter of Maria Flannagan and an unnamed man. In the 1870s her mother remarried to a man with the last name Gilmore and took the family to Albemarle, Virginia.
Alice married Ledwell Coles and had six children with him, five of whom she survived. She was widowed around 1910 and moved to Syracuse, New York in 1940 to live with her daughter Hester (who lived to be 106 herself). Coles died in Syracuse, New York on 5 November 1978, aged 113 years, 69 days. She was succeeded as the world's oldest person by Eliza Underwood.
References[]
- 2019 validations Gerontology Research Group
- Syracuse Herald Journal, August 27, 1965
- Syracuse Post Standard, August 28, 1968
- Glens Falls Post Star, August 29, 1970
- Syracuse Post Standard, November 7, 1978
- Alice Coles Find a Grave