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to certify her as the world’s oldest living person.
Surrounded by family, 114-year-old Cooper accepted a plaque during a small ceremony at a Monroe nursing home last Thursday.
She has previously credited her longevity to minding her own business and not eating junk food, as well as spending a lot of time outside.
She has credited her longevity to minding her own business and not eating junk food.
Here her daughter Angie Tharp, 82, is seated next to her.
Her son, 75-year-old Sid Cooper, said previously that relatives never imagined she would live to be the world’s oldest person.
Cooper became the oldest living person after the death of Eunice G Sanborn of Texas on January 31, 2011.
That’s according to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group that certifies supercentenarians – people who are 110 or older.
Cooper, aged 114, pictured with her daughter-in-law Edith Cooper, aged 72, has four children, 11 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild
Cooper was on August 26, 1896, during the second term of President Grover Cleveland.
She was born Besse Brown in Sullivan County, Tennessee, the third of eight children.
She graduated from East Tennessee Normal School and was a teacher in her native Tennessee before moving to Georgia.
Mrs Cooper married Luther Cooper in 1924, and was widowed in 1963.
As of her 114th birthday she has four children, 11 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. – Daily Mail.