The new oldest living person in the world is a 117-year-old Jamaican woman who once worked for ‘masters’ on a sugar plantation and credits her longevity to good genes and studying the Bible.

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Super-centenarian Violet Mosse-Brown, resident of Duanvale, Trelawny, was born March 10, 1900  making her 117 years and 38 days old.
She inherited the title when Emma Morano passed away at home in Italy on Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 117 years and 137 days
Her doctor said she passed away ‘tranquilly’ while she sat in her armchair.
Mosse-Brown credits her longevity to studying the Bible and she clearly has good genes as her son is 97 years old and her parents both lived to 96
She enjoys a good cow foot but eschews chicken and pork
She still lives in Duanvale, Trelawny, Jamaica, in the same house she was born, and which has been in her family for 200 years.

Mosse-Brown, known as Aunt V, is the last living subject of Queen Victoria, as Jamaica was part of the British West Indies when she was born in 1900, according to her foundation’s biography.
In her 115th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II sent her a congratulatory letter.
She attributes her long life to the good book, saying: ‘My faith in serving God, and believing strongly in the teaching of the bible.’
Genetics may have something to do with it too. Mosse-Brown’s son Harold Fairweather is 97, making him the oldest person in the world, who has a living parent and her parents both lived to 96 years old, according to the Jamaica Observer.

Mosse-Brown ‘worked as a plantation worker cutting cane for her masters, also working as a maid in their homes’ says her granddaughter Leleith Palmer
As for diet, a caretaker told the Jamaica Observer last year: ‘She likes fish and mutton and sometimes she will have cow foot, but she does not eat pork or chicken.’ She also likes sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, breadfruit, and fruits, especially oranges and mangoes.
The last oldest living person, Emma Morano, famously eschewed most fruits and veggies in favour of biscuits and had attributed her longevity to three eggs a day, two of them eaten raw. Even when doctors told her this wasn’t a good idea, she kept it up her whole life.
Although Mosse-Brown enjoys her Bible, she isn’t above appreciating the poetry of the rakish Lord Byron, and can recite The Vision of Belshazzar from memory.
She was married to cemetery keeper Augustus Gaynor Brown until he died. They had six children. She is a great-great-grandmother and has descendants in Jamaica, the United States, Europe and Africa, according to IAmJamaican.

There may be something special about the air in this particular part of Jamaica, as the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, was born in the same parish of Trelawny
Mosse-Brown was named oldest woman by The Gerontology Research Group, which keeps a verified list of those over 110. But the Guinness Book of World Records says it is still researching a ‘number of candidates,’ according to the New York Daily News.

There are estimated to be 300 to 450 living super-centenarians in the world, though only 50 of those cases are known to the group and verified. The vast majority are women.
The next oldest person on the list is Nabi Tajima, who is 116 years and 256 days old.