World’s oldest person dies aged 117 in Jamaica

The oldest person in the world who was the last living subject of Queen Victoria and worked for 'masters' on a Caribbean sugar plantation has died aged 117 in Jamaica.

Violet Mosse Brown also known as‘Aunt V’ to friend, died at around 2.30pm on Saturday. 

Violet Mosse Brown, was born in Trelawney on March 10, 1900 and lived there all of her phenomenally long life.

She became the world's oldest person on April 15 this year at 117 and 38 days, taking the title from Italian Emma Morano, who was the last person whose life spanned three centuries, from 1899 to 2017, and had an more unusual recipe for long life – staying single and eating raw egg every day. 

Really and truly, when people ask what me eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken, and I don’t drink rum and them things, Violet told a local paper after celebrating her 110th milestone.

You know, sometimes I ask myself, “Am I really 110 years old?” because I don’t feel like 110.

Violet was still living in the same house she was born in when she died. 

Queen Elizabeth II sent Violet a plaque to commemorate her longevity when she became the oldest citizen of the Commonwealth – and as well as that, she held the record as the last living subject of Queen Victoria.

In her early life, Violet worked as a plantation worker cutting sugar cane and working as a maid as a survivor of ‘post slavery’ according to the family.

As time went on she purchased her own property and became an entrepreneur, owning the only bread depot in the district.

A staunch contributor to her church, she said ‘My faith in serving God, and believing strongly in the teaching of the bible’ helped her reach such a long age.