Miriam Sparks Bannister née Voisey (19 March 1817 – 9 April 1928) was an English woman, who was one of the earliest recognized

supercentenarian A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is a person who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of major age-related diseases u ...

Biography

Miriam Voisey was born in Sidmouth and baptised soon after in Salcombe Regis, Devon, England, to John and Hester Voisey. She married contractor John Bodman Bannister in London in 1850, at the age of 33. She moved to the United States in 1854. Her daughters Rose and Bertha were born in the United States in 1855 and 1858. She also had two sons, Ferd and Edward. She was widowed in 1878. In St. Louis, she was a member of the Church of St. Philip the Apostle. She had impaired vision from cataracts in old age, and was unable to read. In her later years, she was consulted for commentary and advice. "The present generation isn't bad, it's just different," she declared in 1925. "And so is everything else in the world." She attributed her

longevity The word " longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography. However, the term ''longevity'' is sometimes meant to refer only to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas ''life expectancy'' is always d ...

and good health to "simple foods, avoidance of overeating and abstinence from worry". When she died at her home in St. Louis, Missouri, she was 111 years 21 days old."'Grandma Bannister' Dies Peacefully at St. Louis"
''Journal Gazette'' (10 April 1928): 4. via Newspapers.com She was never the oldest living person due to the longevity of American woman

Delina Filkins Delina Filkins (née Ecker; 4 May 1815 – 4 December 1928) was an American supercentenarian, and the first person verifiably to reach the age of 113. Noted during her own lifetime for her advanced age in the local and national press, she lived ...

. She was congratulated by George V as "the oldest living British subject" shortly before her death.

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Chronological list of verified supercentenarians

– Gerontology Research Group (GRG), published 5 January 2018. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bannister, Miriam 1817 births 1928 deaths English emigrants to the United States British supercentenarians People from Sidmouth 19th-century English women 19th-century English people 20th-century English women 20th-century English people Women supercentenarians English centenarians British women centenarians

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