Nancy Merriman

Nancy Merriman (December 19, 1841 - January 14, 1954) was an American unverified supercentenarian. She was born in Illinois. Nancy Merriman was the first known coloured person to become a supercentenarian when she turned 110 in 1951.

She married her husband Sylvester Merriman in the 1870s and had seven children together with him. She became a widow in 1916. At age 108 she was still up and doing chores around the house.

She outlived six of her seven children and died on January 14, 1954, at the age of 112 years and 26 days, She was the oldest living person in the world at the time of her death.