Jane Young

Jane (right) with her adopted daughter

Jane Leanora Young (née Smith; 22 June 1901? – fl. 13 July 2013) was a Jamaican supercentenarian who is currently unverified.

Biography

Jane was born in Milk River, Clarendon, Jamaica on 22 June 1901 to Alexander Smith and Johanna Dawkins. She was baptised in her centenarian years. She was a member of Sabbath Church and the Church of England. Jane says that she had good childhood when she was growing up with both her parents, who were themselves strict disciplinarians. Jane worked as a farmer and was considered the richest woman in the district of Sedge Pond in Clarendon where they lived at the time. She married Robert Nathaniel Young on 24 November 1946 in Clarendon, Jamaica. They had just one adopted child, Veronica Thompson.

She was last reported alive on 13 July 2013 at the claimed age of 112 years, 21 days.

References

• At 112, Jane Young loves Guinness stout