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World's Oldest Woman named Cruz Hernandez dies at the age of 128 years from her sleep.

She is an El Salvadorian woman borned during late 1800s or particularly 1878



A SALVADORAN woman believed to have been 128 years old and possibly the world's oldest person, has died, a family friend says.

Cruz Hernandez, whom national birth records show was born on May 3, 1878, in central El Salvador, passed away in her sleep on Thursday, neighbour and close family friend Margarita Ascencio said. Ms Hernandez died without being recognised by the book of Guinness World Records.

"She had been poorly for a few days, and yesterday, after eating a tamale and drinking some milk, she went to sleep and never woke up," Ms Ascencio said.

Ms Hernandez gave birth to 13 children and ended up with at least 60 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren and 25 great-great grandchildren.

Many who knew her attributed her longevity to her favourite drink of a beer with two raw eggs in it.

A midwife until she was 100 years old, Ms Hernandez died at her home in the town of San Agustin, having spent her last months unable to speak and mainly dozing.
About 200 guests celebrated her 128th birthday in May, and national birth registry officials sent her documents to the Guinness World Records organisation last year, but did not get a reply.

Guinness had American Emma Faust Tillman, 114, registered as the world's oldest person until she died in January.

The International Committee on Supercentenarians has 114-year-old Japanese woman Yone Minagawa listed as the world's oldest person.

Guinness said the longest any woman has lived is 122 years.

The oldest man was 120 when he died in 1986.

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