Lizzie, the daughter of slaves, dies at a record-breaking 116 - World - Times Online

In the year Elizabeth Bolden was born, Bram Stoker began writing Dracula, America had fewer than 45 states, and Wilhelm II — Kaiser Bill — had just become Emperor of Germany.

On Monday, Mrs Bolden, the world’s oldest person, died in a US nursing home at the age of 116 and 118 days, leaving behind a very different world to the one she was born into on August 15, 1890.