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| | [Deathwatch] Elena Slough, oldest American, 114 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Elena Slough, recognized as oldest American at age 114, dies Sunday, October 5, 2003 Posted: 10:56 PM EDT (0256 GMT) http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/10/05/oldest.american.ap/index.htm l TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) -- Elena Slough, documented as the nation's oldest person, died Sunday at the nursing home where her daughter died three days before. |
 | | What is not in dispute is that Slough had been the oldest person in the United States since April, when 113-year-old Mary Dorothy Christian died in San Pablo, California. |
 | | Slough, who was born Elena Rodenbaugh in a log cabin in Horsham, Pennsylvania, lived through 21 presidents and seven U.S. wars. |
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