Emma Begay

Emma Bodie Begay (3 November 1887? – 6 April 2007) was a Navajo-indian, who was claimed to be 119 years old. Begay was born in a hogan in the Mariano Lake area in the late autumn of 1887, according to her granddaughter, Rosita Smith. She said her grandmother worked as a weaver, sheepherder, farmer and homemaker. Begay had twelve children, three of whom were alive when she died and 20 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren, as well as fourth- and fifth-generation descendants. Begay was widowed in 1974 when her husband, Santiago Begay of Alamo, N.M., died.