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Eunice Sanborn was a confirmed American supercentenarian who reached the age of 114 years and 196 days. She was born on July 20, 1896 and died on January 31, 2011. At the time of her death, it was believed that she was the oldest verified living person in the world.

Biography
Eunice Sanborn, daughter of Augustus and Varina Lyons, was born on July 20, 1896, in Lake Charles, Louisiana as Eunice Allen Lyons. At 17 years old, she married her first husband, Joe Orchin, in 1913. They had a daughter, Dorothy Sanborn, who lived to be 89 and died in 2005. Joe was killed in an accident in 1929. Eunice Sanborn remarried in the early 1930s to Wesley Garrett. Together, they moved to Texas, where she became a co-founder of Loves' Lookout. This is where they built the first concrete pool in Cherokee County. After Wesley's death, Eunice married for the third and the last time to Grant Sanborn. Grant Sanborn died in 1979. Eunice lived in Jacksonville, Texas, in which she died on January 31, 2011.

Death
Sanborn died of natural causes on January 31, 2011, in Jacksonville, Texas, where she lived for 75 years. Of her death, her caretaker David French, who had met her when he was 5, said, "The Lord just called her home. He had been using her as a powerful witness for 115 years. It was a very peaceful death. She was not uncomfortable."