Sarah Knauss

About

At the time of her death at age 119 years and 97 days, she held the Guinness World Record for the oldest living person. As of June 2023, she remained the third oldest documented person of all time. She was not known to have suffered from any illness at the time of her death. 

Before Fame

In her early adulthood years, she worked as a seamstress and office manager and later became a homemaker.

Trivia

She lived through the administrations of seven United States Presidents. She is the oldest documented living person from the United States. 

Family Life

The daughter of Amelia and Walter Clark, Knauss (born Sarah DeRemer Clark) lived and died in Pennsylvania. She outlived her husband Abraham Lincoln Knauss by more than three decades; the couple's one child, Kathryn Knauss Sullivan, died in 2005 at the age of 101.

Associated With

During their lifetimes, Knauss and French supercentenarian Jeanne Calment (who died in 1997 at age 122) held the distinction of being the two verified, oldest-living people in the world.