She is 115 years, Jeralean Talley is now the world's oldest person after Monday's death of fellow American Gertrude Weaver, who would have turned 117 on July 4, Talley is the oldest person recorded by the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
She is an African American, born in the Southern US state of Georgia at the tail end of the nineteenth century on May 23, 1899.