THE OLDEST PERSON IN NEW YORK DIES AT 116

Susannah Mushatt Jones, the oldest person in the world, has died at 116 years in New York.
She died the night of May 12 in a house of senior housing in Brooklyn, her home for the past three decades, Robert Young, senior consultant for Gerontology Research Group based in Los Angeles told the Associated Press.
She had been ill for the last 10 days, Young said.
In July 2015, Jones became the record holder for the Guinness World Records as the oldest living female. She received the file on his 116th birthday.
What was his secret to a long life? And sleep, bacon, Jones said in 2015. She kept a steady diet of bacon, eggs and grits for breakfast. A sign in the kitchen reads: "Bacon makes everything better."
Jones, one of 11 siblings, was born in 1899 near Montgomery, Alabama. After high school in 1922, she worked in the family business picking crops. She then worked as a nanny in New Jersey and New York.
In New York, Jones started a scholarship for African-American women to go to university. She was also involved in the construction of the patrol public housing tenant of her until the ripe age of 106.