The oldest woman in the Unites States is believed to be 113 years old and living in suburban Cleveland.
Lessie Brown was born in 1904 in Atlanta and moved to Cleveland when she was 18. She married, had five children and now has more than 50-grand children, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
The previous oldest American, Delphine Gibson, died last week in Pennsylvania at the age of 114.