World's oldest person for 4 days dies

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Emma Faust Tillman, who was born to former slaves and lived to see 21 American presidencies, died at a nursing home just four days after becoming the world's oldest-known living person. She was 114. Ms. Tillman, who lived independently until she was 110, died Sunday night in the company of several family members, said Karen Chadderton, administrator of Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center in East Hartford. ''She went peacefully,'' Chadderton said Monday. ''She was a wonderful woman.''