Mattie Ivy

Mattie Ivy (née Prater; 14 January 1903 – 7 May 2013) was an American supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She was one of the oldest known people in the US state of Georgia at the time of her death.

Biography
Mattie Ivy was born Mattie Prater on 14 January 1903 in Crawford County, Georgia, United States as the only child of her parents John and Elberta (née Worsham, formerly Marshall) Prater. Her mother had five children from a previous marriage.

On 22 February 1928, aged 25, Ivy married her first husband Esop Wilcox, a widower at the time. Ivy herself had become a nurse shortly prior to her marriage. On 1 February 1930, Esop witnessed the lynching of James Irwin, a black man accused of murder, by an angry mob who were members of the Ku Klux Klan. Esop Wilcox passed away in 1971 after 43 years of marriage. Ivy retired from nursing in 1973 after the death of her employer.

Frederick Ivy was Mattie’s second husband, whom she married in 1976. The couple moved to New Jersey and lived there until Frederick’s death in 1994. Ivy remained in New Jersey until 2001, when she moved back to Ocilla, Georgia. She had no children with either of her husbands. In 2011, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ocilla-Irwin Chamber of Commerce.

Mattie Ivy passed away on 7 May 2013 in Ocilla, Georgia, United States at the age of 110 years, 113 days.