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	Encyclopedia: Sarah Knauss
		Sarah DeRemer Clark was born in a small coal mining town, Hollywood, Pennsylvania (which no longer exists), and died in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
		Sarah Knauss (September 24, 1880 - December 30, 1999) was considered the "world's oldest person" by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998 until her death in 1999.
		Sarah DeRemer Clark was born in a small coal mining town, Hollywood, Pennsylvania Hollywood, Pennsylvania was a short-lived "mining patch" settlement that ultimately wound up within the boundaries of Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sarah-Knauss (1583 words)

	Sarah Knauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At 117, Sarah set the record for the oldest "new" titleholder (which corresponds to the highest "valley" on a graph of the oldest living persons over time).
		Her daughter, Kathryn Sullivan, who was 96 at the time of Sarah's death, once explained Knauss' three-digit age by saying:""She's a very tranquil person and nothing fazes her.
		In 1995, when asked if she enjoyed her long life, Knauss said matter-of-factly: "I enjoy it because I have my health and I can do things." Her passions were said to be watching golf on television, doing needlepoint, and nibbling on milk chocolate turtles, cashews, and potato chips.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarah_Knauss (464 words)

	Sarah Knauss, world's oldest person, 119
		Knauss, who was 20 when the 20th century began, apparently died of natural causes at about 3 p.m., said Marcella Moyer Schick, executive director of the Pheobe-Devitt Homes Foundation.
		"Sarah was an elegant lady and worthy of all the honor and adulation she has received," said Joseph Hess, an administrator at the nursing home.
		Knauss is survived by her daughter, several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00607.html (380 words)

	Obituary: Sarah Knauss, World's oldest person was tranquil, 'elegant'
		Knauss, who was 28 when Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908, apparently died of natural causes at about 3 p.m., said Marcella Moyer Schick, executive director of the Pheobe-Devitt Homes Foundation.
		Knauss, who was born Sept. 24, 1880, and lived a quiet life as a homemaker and insurance office manager, was catapulted into the international spotlight when the Guinness Book of Records declared her the world's oldest person in 1998 upon the death of Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur of Quebec, who was 117.
		Knauss is survived by a 96-year-old daughter, Kitty Sullivan of Allentown, who described her mother in a 1988 interview as a tranquil person.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/19991231knauss9.asp (310 words)

	Old Woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Knauss, who was born Sept. 24, 1880, and lived a quiet life as a homemaker and insurance office manager, found herself in the international spotlight after the Guinness Book of Records declared her the world's oldest person in 1998 upon the death of Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur of Quebec, who was 117.
		Knauss, born in the coal town of Hollywood, Pa., lived through seven U.S. wars, the sinking of the Titanic and Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic.
		Knauss, who died two days before the start of 2000, is survived by a 96-year-old daughter, Kitty Sullivan of Allentown, and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
	www.derbydeadpool.co.uk /deadpool1999/obits/knauss.html (279 words)

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		Knauss, listed as the oldest person in the Guiness Book of World Records, spent a decidedly quieter birthday Friday than the one two years ago, after it was determined she was the oldest American.
		Knauss' grandson is in his early 70s (the third generation of Social Security in the same family), her great-granddaughter has approached her 50s, her great-great granddaughter is in her late 20s, and her great-great-great grandson is four.
		Knauss -- decked out in an ivory crocheted dress, ivory cashmere sweater and pearls -- was given a lunch of crab patty, mashed sweet potatoes, cole slaw, and creamed corn.
	www.grg.org /knauss119.htm (843 words)

	FPA Journal - A Life Well Lived and an Equity-Based Future
		Sarah was 23 when Orville Wright made the first airplane flight in 1903—all of 120 feet in 12 seconds.
		Sarah was considered elderly at age 78 when National Airlines inaugurated the first domestic passenger jet service between New York and Miami in 1958.
		Sarah Knauss, who in 1995 said, “I enjoy longevity because I have my health and can do things,” is survived by her 96-year-old daughter, Kitty.
	www.fpanet.org /journal/articles/2000_Issues/jfp0500-art9.cfm (2012 words)

	"Henry I" Johan Henrich Knappenberger Family (1744-1818) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sarah A. Bittner was born 26 August 1852 and died 27 March 1884 in Lehigh County, PA. She married Charles B. MAYBERRY who was born about 1843 in PA. In the 1880 census, Charles was a deputy sheriff in Allentown and they lived in the hotel his father-in-law ran.
		Sarah Ann Eisenhart born 1 February 1840 in Lehigh County, PA and died 9 June 1845 in Lehigh County, PA. She is buried in Solomons UCC Churchyard.
		Sarah was born 21 January 1791 and died 15 March 1861 in Allentown, Lehigh County, PA. J.
	www.knappenberger.net /2-henry.htm (5389 words)

	OBITUARY of Sarah Knauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sarah Knauss held the title of the world's oldest living person (according to The Guinness Book of Records) for a little over two years when she died at the age of 119.
		Knauss lived through seven U.S. wars, the sinking of the Titanic and Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic.
		In addition to her daughter, Knauss is survived by several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.
	www.grg.org /knaussobit.htm (301 words)

	Mass. News: Scientists studying organs of deceased 119 year old woman
		Sarah Knauss, who lived her last nine years at the Phoebe Home in Allentown, was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest person.
		Knauss' daughter, Kitty Sullivan, 96, said the family agreed to participate in the Harvard study.
		Knauss was known throughout her life for her patience.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2000news/2_22_sb2.htm (505 words)

	The Cynic's Sanctuary
		Knauss was born, Billy the Kid still walked the planet, as did Dostoyevsky, Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Victor Hugo, General Grant, Richard Wagner and Sitting Bull.
		Knauss was born before Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Picasso, Ty Cobb, Al Jolson, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Pope John XXIII, Cecil B. DeMille, Fanny Brice, Babe Ruth, Hitler, Charlie Chaplin, Harry Truman and Grand Duchess Anastasia (21 YEARS before Anastasia, as a matter of fact).
		Knauss is "a very tranquil person and nothing fazes her." In fact, when informed that she was now the world's oldest living person, she nonchalantly replied, "So what?" She craves milk-chocolate turtles and potato chips.
	www.i-cynic.com /june_98.asp (2050 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| World's oldest person misses millennium
		Sarah Knauss, whose claim is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records, died on Thursday at the age of 119, just missing the new millennium.
		Mrs Knauss died of natural causes in a nursing home in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
		As one of very few people who have already seen one century roll over to the next, she would probably not have made a fuss about the arrival of the year 2000.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/584685.stm (335 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Don't worry - be happy (and 117)
		Sarah Clark Knauss, a former seamstress, was formally given the title by officials from the Guinness Book of World Records, according to staff at the Allentown nursing home at which she lives.
		Relatives, who include a daughter in her 90s and a 48-year-old great-granddaughter, say she has been known to eat pounds of chocolate, potato chips, pretzels and candy while avoiding anything remotely resembling a vegetable.
		Knauss was named the oldest living person after the death of a Canadian woman, Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur of Corbeil, Ontario, who was older by less than four weeks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/americas/80119.stm (216 words)

	Sarah Bornstein Biography
		In her work for-pay, Sarah is Administrative Director for the Junior League of Chicago, a omens organization dedicated to community service through trained volunteers.
		In her volunteer work, Sarah has been Chair of Health Evaluation and Referral Service, one of the CWLU groups that outlived the Union; and Chair of the Illinois Caucus on Adolescent Health, whose Executive Director is Jenny Knauss, a long-time CWLU member.
		She is also a member of the Omens Advisory Council of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations and serves on the working group for balancing work and family that is part of the Governors Commission on the Status of Women.
	www.cwluherstory.com /CWLUNew/Bornstein.html (210 words)

	N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
		Johann Heinrich Knauss, born June 06, 1769 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania; died 1833 in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; married Ana Marie Engler; born Abt.
		Catharina Knauss, born July 03, 1776 in Emmaus, Lehigh, Pennsylvania; died December 19, 1838 in Shoeneck, Northampton, Pennsylvania; married John Adam Romig; born February 27, 1776.
		Michael Knauss, born February 03, 1773 in Upper Milford Lehigh Pennsylvania; died January 12, 1857 in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; married Mary Mackley; born May 12, 1783; died January 14, 1856.
	www.thetintypeshop.com /family/Douglas/Surnames/JtoL/Kanouse/kanousehistory.html (786 words)

	NewStandard: 12/31/99
		HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Sarah Knauss, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest person, died yesterday at the age of 119, according to a spokeswoman at the Allentown nursing home where she lived.
		Knauss, who was 20 when the 20th century began, apparently died of natural causes at about 3 p.m., two days before the start of 2000, said Marcella Moyer Schick, executive director of the Pheobe-Devitt Homes Foundation.
		She was 28 when Henry Ford introduced the Model T and 88 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in July 1969.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-99/12-31-99/zzzddobi.htm (1779 words)

	Richard Van Boskirk's Daughter, Hannah Van Boskirk Lincoln (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He first married Sarah Jones, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Whitman) Jones, and married second Mary Gannett, widow, of Scituate, Massachusetts.
		The youngest son, Thomas Lincoln -- the President's father -- was born in 1778 in North Carolina and died in 1851 in Macon County, Illinois.
		James married Sarah J. Knauss (born 1866), a daughter of Daniel Knauss.
	members.aol.com /VanBoskirkFamily/richardshannah.html (2988 words)

	A Balanced Life - 2001 Annual Report - FRB Dallas
		The age-adjusted rate for homicide is at its lowest since 1964—declining from 10.5 per 100,000 in 1980 to 5.8 in 2000.
		When she died in 1999 at age 119, two days short of the millennium, Sarah Clark Knauss (shown above with her great-great-great grandchild) was the oldest American ever.
		When Sarah was born in 1880, average life expectancy in the United States was 43.
	www.dallasfed.org /fed/annual/2001/ar01f.html (1364 words)

	O.B.E. Bulletins for 1999
		Sarah is on a number of 1999 lists and quite a few 2000 lists.
		Sarah who, with her sister, wrote of their experiences growing up as a fl women in the south, died Monday at the age of 109.
		What makes Sarah kinda neat is that she started getting recognition as a writer with books she wrote from the age of 104 and on.
	home1.gte.net /svogl/99/9bullet.html (5695 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Spotlight
		HARRISBURG (USA), December 31 (API) — Sarah Knauss, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest person, has died at the age of 119, according to a spokeswoman at the Allentown nursing home where she lived.
		Knauss, who was 28 when Henry Ford introduced the Model T in 1908, apparently died of natural causes.
		BERHAMPUR, December 31 (PTI) — At least eight persons were killed and 15 others were injured in Thursday’s clash between tribesmen and the police at Majhiguda village in Orissa’s Gajapati district, official sources said on Friday.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000101/spotlite.htm (408 words)

	Learn more about Supercentenarian in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sarah Knauss (September 1880 - 1999, Pennsylvania): April 1998 - December 1999
		Joan Riudavets (born December 1889), oldest European, world's oldest man; he rode a bicycle to age 110, on Minorca
		Sarah Knauss (September 1880 - 1999), oldest in United States history, oldest in world 1998-99
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/su/supercentenarian.html (848 words)

	30 Dec History: This Date (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bruises on her body showed that she had been beaten to death.
		The Guinness Book of Records: 1999 declared Knauss the oldest person in the world, on the 16 April 1998 death of 117-year-old Marie-Louise Febronie Chassé-Meilleur of Québec, born 29 August 1880.
		Knauss ate chocolate every day and rarely got angry.(the longevity record-holder is still Jeanne Louise Calment of Arles, France, born 21 February 1875, who died on 04 August 1997, who also was partial to chocolate, and drank wine).
	www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /history/h4dec/h4dec30.html (9124 words)

	Elder Care/Phoebe Ministries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An annual celebration is held for Phoebe's best-known resident, Sarah Knauss.
		it's for my mother!" To the delight of everyone, several months later, her mother Sarah Knauss joined Phoebe and became a resident, where she has lived since.
		She is truly a model of inspiration to all her neighbors at the home.
	www2.cedarcrest.edu /cityguide/html/phoebe.htm (2208 words)

	News in brief
		Felicie Cormier, who was a year older but had no birth certificate - and so was not eligible for consideration as a record-breaker - died earlier in Crowley, Louisiana.
		Guinness Media Inc, based in Stamford, Connecticut, said yesterday that it now recognised Sarah Knauss, 117 and born a month after Mrs Meilleur, as the world's oldest person.
		Mrs Knauss lives in Pennsylvania and was born on Sept 24, 1880.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/04/18/wbull18.html (395 words)

	CNN - How will we age? - October 29, 1999
		Perls and his colleagues have been collecting blood samples and mapping the genes of centenarians around the country.
		"We have one woman who's the oldest person in the world actually, Sarah Knauss who's in our study at age 118.
		She has a great-great-great grandchild." To pinpoint longevity genes in humans, scientists are turning to nematodes -- or tiny worms.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/cnntime/stories/aging (661 words)

	and beyond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A few years ago he met the person believed to be the oldest in the world at the time.
		Her name was Sarah Knauss, from Allendale, Pa., and she was 119 before passing away less than two years ago.
		Part of doing the study is verifying the centenarians' ages, a difficult task with some, but not Mrs.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20010211/LI_001.htm (1282 words)

	Knauss Family
		Johann Ludwig Knauss was born in 1685 in Düdelsheim, Büdingen, Hessen, the son of Lucas Knauss and his wife, whose name is unknown.
		Joseph Knauss moved with his family to NC about 1780.
		This page was revised on May 12, 2001 and on March 1, 2004.
	www.fmoran.com /knauss.html (227 words)

	The Longevity Meme -- Live Healthily, Fight Aging, Extend Your Life
		He is also a founder of Centagenetix, a Boston company that is hoping to find medicines to retard aging.
		He points to a photo of Sarah Knauss who, before she died in 1999, held title to being the oldest woman in the United States.
		In all, six generations of Knausses sat still for a single snapshot.
	www.longevitymeme.org /articles/printarticle.cfm?article_id=22 (2153 words)

	Peronsals
		Guinness verified her age through her certificates of birth and baptism, census records, two marriage certificates and other documents.
		Not far behind is American Sarah Knauss of Allentown, Pa., who has documents to prove she will be 117 on Sept. 24.
		Staff at a Pensacola, Fla., nursing home plan to celebrate the 121st birthday of their most senior resident, Agusta Watts, on Friday.
	www.news-star.com /stories/081597/life1.html (490 words)

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