Supercentenarian Profile

Cloa Gragg

Born:

1903-06-01

Putnam County, Tennessee

United States

Died:

2014-02-02

Lebanon, Tennessee

United States

Cloa Elizabeth Gragg (née Brown) was an American supercentenarian.

BIOGRAPHY

Cloa Gragg was born in Putnam County, Tennessee, USA, on 1 June 1903. Her parents were William Monroe “Bill” Brown (1879–1927) and Martha Banks “Mattie” Carr (1885–1982). She had five siblings: Ila Opal Keith (1905–1995), Ernest (1907–1908), Lona Lillian McBroom (1918–2007), Joe Kenneth (1922–2009), and Sarah Lois (1928–1928).

In 1922, she married Robert T. Gragg (1901–1958). She was a homemaker and of the Methodist faith. The couple had three sons: J. B. (1923–2005), Billy (1928–2009), and Arnold Allison.

Cloa Gragg passed away in Lebanon, Tennessee, on 2 February 2014, at the age of 110 years, 246 days. She had seven grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.