The world’s oldest person, Gertrude Baines, died today at the age of 115. Gertrude Baines died at 7:25 a.m. at Western Convalescent Hospital in LA.
The Shellman, Ga., native, whose father was believed to have been a slave, was born April 6, 1894, when the U.S. flag had 44 stars and Grover Cleveland was president. She married at a young age and later divorced. Her only child, a daughter, died of typhoid at 18. Baines had outlived every one of her relatives.