Emma Begay

Emma Begay
Birth:	3 November 1887? Mariano Lake, New Mexico, USA
Death:	6 April 2007 Prewitt, New Mexico, USA
Age:	119 years, 154 days?
Country:	USA
Longevity claimant

Emma Bodie Begay (3 November 1887? – 6 April 2007) was a Navajo-indian, who was claimed to be 119 years old.

Biography

Begay was born in a hogan in the Mariano Lake area, New Mexico, USA 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.

Begay died in Prewitt, New Mexico, USA on 6 April 2007 at the claimed age of 119 years, 154 days.