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This list of oldest living people by U.S. state is a list of the oldest verified living persons (not necessarily supercentenarians) by state of current residence. For all-time state records, please see list of oldest people by U.S. state. Note that the latter list is by state of birth, so that in some cases the data may not match exactly. Moreover, the state overall recordholders are in bold, for distinction purposes.

Key

Race

W=White, B=Black, O=Oriental/East Asian, H=Hispanic (Mestizo)

Sex

M=Male, F=Female

Table (by state of current residence)

State	Name	Race	Sex	Birth	Age
Alabama	Cora Gentry	W	F	April 14, 1897	127 years, 256 days
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas	Ruth Lincoln	W	F	September 30, 1897	127 years, 87 days
California	Gertrude Baines	B	F	April 6, 1894	130 years, 264 days
Colorado	Rolan Dixon Craig	B	F	July 1, 1898	126 years, 178 days
Connecticut	Elizabeth Stefan	W	F	May 13, 1895	129 years, 227 days
Delaware	Wally McBride Baker	W	F	January 9, 1898	126 years, 352 days
District of Columbia	Eddye L. Williams	B	F	January 4, 1900	124 years, 357 days
Florida	Onezima Cecilia 'Onie' Chazal Ponder	W	F	September 3, 1898	126 years, 114 days
Georgia	Beatrice Farve	B	F	April 30, 1895	129 years, 240 days
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois	Charlessa Wiggins	W	F	February 9, 1898	126 years, 321 days
Indiana	Edna Parker	W	F	April 20, 1893	131 years, 250 days
Iowa	Neva Morris	W	F	August 3, 1895	129 years, 145 days
Kansas	Ella Shuler	W	F	September 5, 1897	127 years, 112 days
Kentucky
Louisiana	Maggie Renfro	B	F	November 14, 1895	129 years, 42 days
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts	Bernice Emerson Madigan	W	F	July 24, 1899	125 years, 155 days
Michigan	Nellie Jones	B	F	January 30, 1897	127 years, 331 days
Minnesota	Catherine Hagel	W	F	November 28, 1894	130 years, 28 days
Mississippi
Missouri	Florence Poe	W	F	August 24, 1898	126 years, 124 days
Montana	Walter Breuning	W	M	September 21, 1896	128 years, 96 days
Nebraska	Abeline Spiehs	W	F	September 4, 1898	126 years, 113 days
Nevada
New Hampshire	Mary Josephine Ray	W	F	May 17, 1895	129 years, 223 days
New Jersey	Walter H. Seward	W	M	October 13, 1896	128 years, 74 days
New Mexico
New York	Olivia Patricia Thomas	W	F	June 29, 1895	129 years, 180 days
North Carolina
North Dakota	Mary Schumacher	W	F	August 29, 1898	126 years, 119 days
Ohio	Ethel Johnson	W	F	September 28, 1897	127 years, 89 days
Oklahoma	Anna Mae Pendley	W	F	February 18, 1899	125 years, 312 days
Oregon	Helen Johnson	W	F	July 20, 1896	128 years, 159 days
Pennsylvania	Agnes M. Wetzel	W	F	October 18, 1899	125 years, 69 days
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota	Neva Gist	W	F	April 19, 1899	125 years, 251 days
Tennessee	Nyleptha Roberts	W	F	March 12, 1898	126 years, 289 days
Texas	Eunice Sanborn	W	F	July 20, 1896	128 years, 159 days
Utah	Irene Leishman	W	F	July 25, 1900	124 years, 154 days
Vermont
Virginia	Epsie Rike Wilson	W	F	February 25, 1898	126 years, 305 days
Washington	John Henry Foster Babcock	W	M	July 23, 1900	124 years, 156 days
West Virginia	Jacob Washington Currence	W	M	November 2, 1898	126 years, 54 days
Wisconsin	Florence Busch	W	F	August 13, 1896	128 years, 135 days
Wyoming

References

1. ^ Validated living supercentenarians Important note: the GRG lists persons as 'living' whose age has been validated and confirmed to be alive within the past year.
2. News report on Eddye L. Williams' 108th birthday
3. Nebraska's oldest resident dies at 110 years old
4. 109 and feelin' fine
5. News report on Anna Mae Pendley's 109th birthday
6. Madison woman is oldest resident of S.D.
7. Tennessee Woman Celebrates 110th Birthday - John Dunn
8. Rhea Barnett, oldest Utahn, dies at 109
9. Correction of previous article, naming current oldest Utahn
10. 'I'm too old for parties'

External links

• Gerontology Research Group