How many people born in 1800s

George Washington was the president of the United States at the time. Neve died a month before her th birthday, in the springtime of During her honeymoon, she and her husband visited the field of Waterloo, where the famous battle had been waged just years before. There, according to newspaper accounts, she found a belt buckle from an Imperial Guard soldier. We used data collected from government agencies such as the U.

Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis to create the list. Because of greater access to health care, which has improved dramatically over the last century, life expectancy has increased significantly. The average person born in lived to By , the average life expectancy had increased to Okawa was married in and had three children, two of whom are still living and are in their 90s. She also has four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

The daughter of sharecroppers who witnessed the Civil War, Gertrude Weaver was born in southwest Arkansas near the border with Texas and was married in , according to the Associated Press. She and her husband had four children, all of whom have died except for a son, now in his 90s.

According to an article in Time magazine , some of the highlights of Weaver's week are manicures, Bible study and "wheelchair dancing," which she does three times a week. She is also visited regularly by friends and her granddaughter Gradie Welch, who is nearly So how has she lived so long? Also, she says, it helps to have strong religious beliefs. Don't follow anyone else," she told the local Camden News.

I've followed Him for many, many years and I ain't tired. Born Jeralean Kurtz, one of 11 children in in Montrose, Ga.

Seeking better economic opportunity, she moved to Inkster in where she married Alfred Talley and had one child, Thelma, who was born in Talley and her husband were wed for 52 years before he died in at the age of She has three grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

Life expectancy in general has increased massively over the past years. The USA's National Institute on Aging observes that "although most babies born in did not live past age 50, life expectancy at birth now exceeds 83 years in Japan — the current leader — and is at least 81 years in several other countries.