Maria Olivia da Silva, , Brazilian supercentenarian and oldest citizen claimant.

Maria Olívia da Silva of Brazil was a claimant to the title of world's oldest person ever. She died on Georgian woman Antisa Khvichava's claimed 130th birthday.

(claimed 28 February 1880 – 8 July 2010)

Life

Da Silva was born in Itapetininga, São Paulo, and lived in Astorga, Paraná.^[1] She was of Polish descent. She was married twice^[1], the first time allegedly in 1893, and has outlived all but three of her 14 children.^[1] Four of them were adopted. Da Silva lived with her 63-year-old adopted son, Aparecido H. Silva.^[1]

She was still in good shape at the time of her death, loved to talk, and still had a sharp memory.^[1] Da Silva ate rice, beans, and bananas every day.^[2] Reportedly, she walked every day to the city to prove that she was still alive, and to get her pension. Some in Astorga protested to the city administration, saying she was too old to be obliged to do this daily.^]

In March 2005 she was first claimed to be ten years older than any verifiably documented living person. At the time, the Guinness World Records website considered then 114-year-old Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, born 29 June 1890, as the world's oldest person, and later retrospectively accepted the claims of María Capovilla, who was then aged 116.

RankBrasil has only produced documents dating from the 1970s or later, including the birth certificate on its website indicating she was born in 1880, and a Brazilian ID with the same birthdate.

The oldest living person verifiably documented by Guinness is the French woman Eugénie Blanchard age &0000000000000114.000000114 years, &0000000000000169.000000169 days, who was born three years after da Silva was allegedly already married.

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