Lessie Brown, a 114-year-old Ohio woman who was believed to be the oldest person in the United States, died Tuesday, her grandson said.

Brown, who had been living with one of her daughters, died at the home in Cleveland Heights, according to Ronald Wilson.

Brown said in 2013 it was God's will that she had lived so long. Others in her family attributed her long life to the fact that she ate a sweet potato nearly every day until she was well past 100.

"Oh I don't know. A lot of them say it's because I ate a lot of sweet potatoes, but I don't think that's it. I don't know, God's will," she told WJW-TV when she celebrated her 109th birthday.

Brown was born in 1904 in Georgia and grew up on a farm near Stockbridge, outside Atlanta. She was one of 12 children and moved to Cleveland with her family when she was 18.

She married about four years later and had three girls and two boys. Her husband, Robert Brown, died in 1991.
She attended Emmanuel Baptist Church in Cleveland for more than 70 years.

Brown's daughter, Verline Wilson, told Cleveland.com that her mother responded, "That's good," when she told her in May 2018 that she was the country's oldest person following the May 9, 2018, death of 114-year-old Delphine Gibson, of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

It was not clear who is now the oldest American.

The world's oldest person is believed to be 116-year-old Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman who lives on the southern island of Kyushu, according to the Gerontology Research Group in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
Brown turned 114 in September and celebrated the milestone with two of her daughters and grandchildren.
Brown's funeral will be at Emmanuel Baptist, but the arrangements have not been finalized, said Rhonda Pope, the church's administrative assistant.

Boston Marathon Survivor 'Broken' After Another Setback

She lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing, only to return to run the race again, as well as to dance. Now Adrianne Haslet has suffered another blow.

She was hit by a car Saturday evening in Boston and already has undergone surgery, reports TMZ. "Struck by a car on Commonwealth Avenue, while on a crosswalk," Haslet revealed on Instagram.

"Thrown into the air and landed, crushing the left side of my body." The Instagram photo shows her wearing a neck brace in a hospital bed.

"I'm completely broken," writes Haslet, who lost her left leg in the bombing. "More surgery to come."
Police cited the driver, who remained at the scene, for failing to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

The accident happened around 7:15pm, and the driver told police he never saw Haslet in the rain. Based on her previous social media posts, Haslet appeared to be in training to run the 2019 marathon.

She was one of 17 people who lost a limb in the 2013 bombing, reports Boston.com, but she ran the 2016 race with a prosthetic limb and also competed on Dancing With the Stars.

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