Narcissa Rickman

Narcissus Rickman (September 13, 1855 – October 21, 1968) was an American supercentenarian who is currently unverified. She was born as Narcissus Elizabeth Jane Nicholson in a log cabin in Rosman, Henderson County, North Carolina, to parents Evan Pearson Nicholson and Rebecca Elizabeth Nicholson. She married Nicholas Rickman in 1882. She was a Sunday School teacher. Nicholas passed away in 1901.

On her 112th birthday, it was mentioned that she was four feet tall. She lived with a granddaugther at the time. She was still sociable and mentally alert in 1967. However, she fell and broke her hip that year in June. She had broken her hip already when she was 95 years old. Rickman was subsequently taken to hospital, where she stayed for 13 days. She became wheelchaired. She also fractured some ribs at another occasion. Her eyesight was said to be poor at 112, and she couldn’t read books any longer. She liked to read the Bible and encyclopedias. She attributed her longevity to ”the good lord”.

She spent her 113th birthday at a hospital for a case of common cold.

Rickman died on October 21, 1968, at the age of 113 years. She was the oldest living person in the world at the time of her death.