The world’s oldest person, Susannah Mushatt Jones, died in New York aged 116 on Thursday night at the Vandalia Senior Center, a public housing facility for seniors in Brooklyn.

Jones was born in U.S. state of Alabama in 1899 and was the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves.

After graduating from high school she moved in 1922 to New Jersey and then New York, where she worked as a housekeeper and childcare provider, according to Guinness World Records and the Vandalia Senior Center in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, where she lived.

Jones had said that lots of sleep is the secret to her longevity and that she had never smoked or drank alcohol.

Emma Morano, of Verbania, Italy, who was born on November 29, 1899, is now the unofficial world’s oldest person.

The oldest person ever was Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997 at 122 years and 164 days.