Elizabeth Francis says the key to living a long life is to ‘speak your mind and don’t hold your tongue’
We should respect our elders!
Headline is bullshit - she was no eye witness of the Titanic desaster.
She was at that Irish dance party tho, if you look real close you can see her in the back.
I bet she didn’t literally see the signing of the Treaty of Versailles either. /s
You can be witness to world events without literally being there and looking at them with your eyes.
She was… she was the iceberg.
And here for he to live long enough to vote in the first black female president and out live Trump.
Prove she wasn’t there!
How do you know she didn’t change her name? Maybe after witnessing the armistice in the rail car, she had to go into hiding because they all figured out she was a spy on the Titanic.
She fled the scene with her iceberg accomplice
I bet she wasn’t in the rail car for the armistice either.
One of the last things my grandfather told me before he died at 101 was “People aren’t supposed to live this long, why won’t God let me die?”
It made it easier to see him go. He was beyond ready.
I don’t ever want to be this old…
Did they have tv back then?
My sister once asked my dad why old tv shows were in black and white and he told her it was because people used to not be able to see in color. He then told her that his mom couldn’t see colors and it made my sister really sad for our grandmother.
The end.
enthusiastic but sparse applause
Calvin’s dad said the same thing
Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s
So no, not really.
If you believe the story told by someone who claimed to know him in the documentary about him, Leon Theremin invented a form of closed-circuit color television in the 1920s.
Yeah, I mean you could “well actually” my comment because a couple images had been transmitted over RF by then. But in the sense of “could this random 3 year old have learned about the Titanic from the 11 o’clock news?” it didn’t exist.
I wasn’t trying to do that. I was just trying to bring up something cool I learned that was related.
I didn’t think you were. We’re good.
She puts my teeth to shame. How do I get a smile like that? 😁
Have as much excess wealth as this lady does
When did you get a look at her bank balance?
Owned a coffee shop, took the bus to work. What a fat cat. She’s probably not even rocking $500, base model dentures like the rest of us centenarians.
Dentures
Title made me think she was on one of the life boats and saw the titanic sank.
Holy hell, that’s way older than I want to be. From the thumbnail, she appears to be smiling, so good for her.
Not going to lie. 115 years as a black woman in the deep south sounds like Hell
On the other hand, think of how many racist pieces of shit that treated her badly in her life that she outlived.
Yeah. A bigger deal than the titanic is that she most likely met people who fought for the south in the Civil War. It ended in 1965, only 44 years before she was born. An 18 year old soldier in the civil war would have been about 62 when she was born. They would have been old men, but she probably ran into a few of them in her life.
Aside from that, the Tulsa Race Massacre would have happened when she was a pre-teen. Her teenage years would have been filled with countless stories of lynchings. Then she would have had to deal with the great depression in her 20s, then WWII in her 30s.
You typoed the year the civil war ended by a hundred years.
