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{{Short description|American supercentenarian (1892–2007)}}
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'''Emmaline Fanchon Tillman''', ({{née}} '''Faust'''; November 22, 1892 – January 28, 2007) was an American ] and, for a few days, the ] until she died aged 114 years and 67 days.<ref>, ], 29 June 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.</ref>
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'''Emma Fanchon Faust Tillman''' (], ] &ndash; ], ]) was an ] ] and, at age ], the ] person in the world. Since ], ], Tillman was officially the only living person left who was born in 1892. However, though the last known person from 1892, she was not the oldest one, since Frenchwoman ] made it to 114 years and 180 days.


==Biography== ==Biography==
===Early life===
Emma, an ], was born in ], to former ] on the Faust Plantation. Alphonso, Emma's father, was the son of a former slave Letha Faust of African descent and of plantation owner Cain Faust of German descent. Emma's mother, Martha Gibson Faust, who was of ] heritage, was also born into slavery.


Tillman was one of 23 children born to former ] Alphonso Faust and Martha Gibson Faust in ].<ref name="SalvationArmy"/><ref name="Reitz"/> Her maiden name, '''Faust''', had been adopted from the plantation owner who owned her father's family before the Civil War, Cane Faust.<ref name="SalvationArmy"/><ref name="JInquirer"/> The family moved to ] in 1900,<ref name="SalvationArmy"/><ref name="Waldman"/> where Tillman became the only African-American attending ], graduating in 1909 as the first African-American to do so there.<ref name="JInquirer"/><ref name="HCourant"/><ref name=NYT/> Although she enjoyed studying commercial arithmetic,<ref name="SalvationArmy"/><ref name="Waldman">{{cite news |last1=Waldman |first1=Hilary |title=Living history |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/374362692/?terms=%22Emma%2BTillman%22 |accessdate=4 October 2019 |work=Hartford Courant |date=1 January 1990 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |page=D3}}</ref> and did the accounts on her father's tobacco farm,<ref name="Waldman"/> she moved to ] in 1914,<ref name="Waldman"/> to take up a position as a housekeeper, the only paid employment open to her at that time.<ref name="SalvationArmy"/><ref name="Waldman"/> She married Arthur Tillman the same year,<ref name="Rodriguez"/> and they had two daughters.<ref name="Rodriguez"/> Tillman ran her own baking and catering service for about sixty years,<ref name="Neyer">{{cite news |last1=Neyer |first1=Constance |title=An Age-Old Celebration |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/176282014/?terms=%22Emma%2BFaust%2BTillman%22 |accessdate=4 October 2019 |work=Hartford Courant |date=4 December 1999 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |page=B1}}</ref> sometimes serving meals for visiting state dignitaries such as Governors ] and ],<ref name="Neyer"/> and whose regular customers included Dr. Thomas Hepburn, a noted Hartford Hospital urologist and father to actress ],<ref name=NYT>Medina Jennifer, , '']'', 30 January 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.</ref> who she served as the family cook for a number of years.<ref name="JInquirer"/> Her husband died in 1939.<ref name= NYT/> Four of her siblings lived past ], including a brother who lived to be 108, a sister who reached 105 and two others who reached 102.<ref>, ], reprinted at NBC NEWS.com website, 29 January 2007. Retrieved 19 October, 2015.</ref>
The family moved to ] in 1900. Tillman ran her own baking and catering service whose regular customers included Dr. Thomas Hepburn, a noted Hartford Hospital urologist and father to actress ].


Throughout her lifetime, Tillman was involved in various ] social programs and the ].<ref name="HCourant"/><ref name="Rodriguez"/>
===Later life===
By ], ], the passings of several older people (including ], ] and ]) had moved Emma up to second-oldest in the 50 U.S. states, and she became the oldest following the ] death of the then world's oldest person, 116-year-old ]. By then she was also among the 60 longest living people ever. On ], ], she became the oldest living woman following the death of 115-year-old ] ], and on ], ] the world's oldest living person with the death of ] ], who was also 115.


The day before her 110th birthday, ] ] proclaimed that her birthday, November 22, would be known within the state as "Emma Tillman Day".<ref name="JInquirer">{{cite web|last=Ax |first=Joe |url=http://www.journalinquirer.com/archives/at-she-s-living-history/article_b764938f-8a92-5e75-9269-a1689abbbc07.html |title=At 110, she's living history |work=Journal Inquirer |date=21 November 2003 |accessdate=15 November 2015}}</ref>
===Death===
Tillman resided at an assisted living center in ]. Her death at age 114 years and 67 days around 10:10PM EST means that her title reign of just four days was the shortest ever, breaking the previous record of shortest tenure, 13 days, held by ] of ]. Her successor was ], also of Japan. Tillman is buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Hartford.


Tillman was a parishioner at the ] for more than 80 years,<ref name="Reitz"/><ref name="HCourant">{{cite web|last=James |first=Ariel |url=https://www.courant.com/2006/12/14/emma-faust-tillmans-long-life/ |title=Emma Faust Tillman's Long Life |work=Hartford Courant |date=14 December 2006 |access-date=15 November 2015}}</ref> where she became informally known as the "mother" of the church and the ] as a whole.<ref name="SalvationArmy">{{cite journal|last=Johnson |first=Linda D. |url=http://www.salvationarmy-usaeast.org/SApublish/priority/pr_article.cfm?article_id=204 |title=She's in Guinness! |journal=Priority! |publisher=] |date=Winter 2006 |volume=8 |issue=4 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210173851/http://www.salvationarmy-usaeast.org/SApublish/priority/pr_article.cfm?article_id=204 |archivedate=10 February 2007 |accessdate=15 November 2015}}</ref><ref name=NYT/> She was a member of the church choir for more than seventy years,<ref name="Reitz">{{cite news |last1=Reitz |first1=Stephanie |title=Emma Tillman, at 114; faith, independence guided her life |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/01/30/emma_tillman_at_114_faith_independence_guided_her_life/ |accessdate=4 October 2019 |work=Boston Globe |agency=Associated Press |date=January 30, 2007 |location=Boston, Massachusetts}}</ref> and president of the senior for fifteen years.<ref name="Rodriguez">{{cite news |last1=Rodriguez |first1=Cindy |title=Hartford woman turns 100 today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/175876218/?terms=%22Emma%2BTillman%22 |accessdate=4 October 2019 |work=Hartford Courant |date=22 November 1993 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |page=C6}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Many Choirs To Join Anniversary Concert |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/370148713/?terms=%22Emma%2BTillman%22 |accessdate=4 October 2019 |work=Hartford Courant |date=16 April 1955 |location=Hartford, Connecticut |page=11}}</ref>
==Personal life==

===Family===
She lived independently until the age of 110.<ref>, ] website, 29 January 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.</ref> On January 18, 2007, she became the oldest living woman following the death of 115-year-old Canadian ],<ref>, ], 20 January 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.</ref> and on January 24, 2007 she became the world's oldest living person with the death of 115-year-old ] (a native of ]).<ref>, ], 28 January 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.</ref>
Emma was one of 23 children, some of whom died at birth or in their early years; but four of Emma's siblings lived past 100, including a sister, Ava Stewart (]-]), who died at 102, and a brother, Eugene A. Faust (]-]), who died at 108. Another sister died at 105 in ], and another one at 102 in the ].

She died in an ] nursing home on January 28, 2007, aged 114 years, 67 days. She holds the record for the shortest period spent as the world's oldest person.<ref>, ], 17 December 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2015.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Goldenberg |first=David |url=http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-oldest-person-in-the-world-keeps-dying/ |title=Why The Oldest Person In The World Keeps Dying |work=] |date=26 May 2015 |accessdate=15 November 2015}}</ref> After her death, Yone Minagawa of ] became the world's oldest person.<ref name= NYT/>

On March 9, 2007, Tillman was discussed as a major subject of a lecture by ], a professor of philosophy at ], titled "Nature vs. the Tragedy of Emma Faust Tillman's Death", at the Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy at ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/philo/calendar/colloquia-and-lectures/karbank-symposium/spring-2007/ |title=Spring 2007 Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy |work=] Arts & Sciences, Department of Philosophy |date=February 2007 |accessdate=15 November 2015}}</ref> The lecture discussed issues related to ], particularly the value of individual human lives compared to the value of natural environments and their preservation.<ref>{{cite web|last=Jahnke |first=Art |url=http://www.bu.edu/today/2007/how-much-do-we-owe-the-earth/ |title=How Much Do We Owe the Earth? |work=BU Today |publisher=] |date=7 March 2007 |accessdate=15 November 2015}}</ref>


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American supercentenarian (1892–2007)
Emma Tillman
Tillman aged 114 with great-grand daughter Carol Stewart
Born(1892-11-22)November 22, 1892
Gibsonville, North Carolina, U.S.
Died(2007-01-28)January 28, 2007
(aged 114 years, 67 days)
East Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation(s)Baker, caterer
TitleWorld's oldest person (January 24, 2007 – January 28, 2007)
Spouse Arthur Tillman ​ ​(m. 1914; died 1939)​

Emmaline Fanchon Tillman, (née Faust; November 22, 1892 – January 28, 2007) was an American supercentenarian and, for a few days, the world's oldest living person until she died aged 114 years and 67 days.

Biography

Tillman was one of 23 children born to former slaves Alphonso Faust and Martha Gibson Faust in Gibsonville, North Carolina. Her maiden name, Faust, had been adopted from the plantation owner who owned her father's family before the Civil War, Cane Faust. The family moved to Glastonbury, Connecticut in 1900, where Tillman became the only African-American attending Glastonbury High School, graduating in 1909 as the first African-American to do so there. Although she enjoyed studying commercial arithmetic, and did the accounts on her father's tobacco farm, she moved to Hartford in 1914, to take up a position as a housekeeper, the only paid employment open to her at that time. She married Arthur Tillman the same year, and they had two daughters. Tillman ran her own baking and catering service for about sixty years, sometimes serving meals for visiting state dignitaries such as Governors Raymond E. Baldwin and Ella T. Grasso, and whose regular customers included Dr. Thomas Hepburn, a noted Hartford Hospital urologist and father to actress Katharine Hepburn, who she served as the family cook for a number of years. Her husband died in 1939. Four of her siblings lived past age 100, including a brother who lived to be 108, a sister who reached 105 and two others who reached 102.

Throughout her lifetime, Tillman was involved in various NAACP social programs and the National Council of Negro Women.

The day before her 110th birthday, former Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland proclaimed that her birthday, November 22, would be known within the state as "Emma Tillman Day".

Tillman was a parishioner at the Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church for more than 80 years, where she became informally known as the "mother" of the church and the A.M.E. Conference as a whole. She was a member of the church choir for more than seventy years, and president of the senior for fifteen years.

She lived independently until the age of 110. On January 18, 2007, she became the oldest living woman following the death of 115-year-old Canadian Julie Winnefred Bertrand, and on January 24, 2007 she became the world's oldest living person with the death of 115-year-old Emiliano Mercado del Toro (a native of Puerto Rico).

She died in an East Hartford nursing home on January 28, 2007, aged 114 years, 67 days. She holds the record for the shortest period spent as the world's oldest person. After her death, Yone Minagawa of Japan became the world's oldest person.

On March 9, 2007, Tillman was discussed as a major subject of a lecture by Felicia Nimue Ackerman, a professor of philosophy at Brown University, titled "Nature vs. the Tragedy of Emma Faust Tillman's Death", at the Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy at Boston University. The lecture discussed issues related to environmental philosophy, particularly the value of individual human lives compared to the value of natural environments and their preservation.

See also

References

  1. Table C - World's Oldest Person (WOP) Titleholders Since 1955, Gerontology Research Group, 29 June 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  2. ^ Johnson, Linda D. (Winter 2006). "She's in Guinness!". Priority!. 8 (4). The Salvation Army. Archived from the original on 10 February 2007. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  3. ^ Reitz, Stephanie (January 30, 2007). "Emma Tillman, at 114; faith, independence guided her life". Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. Associated Press. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  4. ^ Ax, Joe (21 November 2003). "At 110, she's living history". Journal Inquirer. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  5. ^ Waldman, Hilary (1 January 1990). "Living history". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. p. D3. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  6. ^ James, Ariel (14 December 2006). "Emma Faust Tillman's Long Life". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  7. ^ Medina Jennifer, In Connecticut, World's Oldest Woman Dies at 114, The New York Times, 30 January 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  8. ^ Rodriguez, Cindy (22 November 1993). "Hartford woman turns 100 today". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. p. C6. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  9. ^ Neyer, Constance (4 December 1999). "An Age-Old Celebration". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. p. B1. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  10. After a brief reign, oldest known person dies, Associated Press, reprinted at NBC NEWS.com website, 29 January 2007. Retrieved 19 October, 2015.
  11. "Many Choirs To Join Anniversary Concert". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. 16 April 1955. p. 11. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  12. World's oldest person dies at 114, BBC News website, 29 January 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  13. Julie Bertrand, 115; Canadian was world's oldest woman for a month, Los Angeles Times, 20 January 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  14. Age epithet passes as oldest person dies at 115, The Age, 28 January 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  15. World's oldest living person dies at age 115, Guinness World Records, 17 December 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  16. Goldenberg, David (26 May 2015). "Why The Oldest Person In The World Keeps Dying". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  17. "Spring 2007 Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy". Boston University Arts & Sciences, Department of Philosophy. February 2007. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  18. Jahnke, Art (7 March 2007). "How Much Do We Owe the Earth?". BU Today. Boston University. Retrieved 15 November 2015.

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