Elsada Duncan

Elsada Miriam Day (née Duncan) (born 15 January 1908) is a Jamaican-American supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She may be the second-oldest living person born in Jamaica behind Amy Johnson, who is three months older.

Biography
Elsada Day was born Elsada Miriam Duncan in Brainerd, St. Mary, Jamaica on 15 January 1908 to parents Charles and Grace Ann (née Pinnock) Duncan, who were local farmers. She was the seventh child out of 13 the couple had. She started school at the age of eight, but financial difficulties meant she had to leave when she was 15.

Two years later, Elsada moved to Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, and joined a church to devote her life to Christ. She took up dressmaking, and often created entire outfits for wedding guests and church-goers. She later married a man with the surname Day and had a daughter, Norma (born June 1940), with him. She also adopted her niece and then her niece’s son in 1942.

Elsada and her children were active members of the Bethel Apostic in Jones Town, Jamaica, and later joined the Born-Again Church of Jesus Christ-Apostolic, where Elsada was appointed an Evangelist. She was also one of the founding members of that church and was respectfully referred to as "Mother Duncan".

Her daughter, Norma, bore Elsada six grandchildren, but the eldest two died in infancy. Elsada’s faith in God helped the family cope with the losses. In 1980, Elsada broke her ankle, and in 1997, she broke her hip, but she made a full recovery from both injuries. She started to use a walker as a nonagenarian.

In the early 1990s, Elsada emigrated to the USA with her family, first settling in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, but moved to Milton, Georgia, USA in 1995. By the time Elsada was 100, she had outlived all of her siblings. On her 100th birthday in 2008 and on her 110th birthday in 2018, she received visits from the Mayor of Milton, Joe Lockwood.

Elsada Day currently lives in Milton, Georgia, USA, at the age of. She is currently the second-oldest living person in Georgia behind Maggie Kidd.