Longevity Milestones
- 11 December 2006, Tillman became the oldest living person in the United States upon death of Elizabeth Bolden.
- 18 January 2007, Tillman became the oldest living woman and second oldest living person in the world after death of Julie Winnefred Bertrand.
- 24 January 2007, Tillman became the oldest living person in the world following death of Emiliano Mercado del Toro.
- 28 January 2007, Tillman died, therefore breaking the shortest tenure of the title of oldest living person, set by Florence Knapp of 15 days.
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“Every thing teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)