Jane Walton

BIOGRAPHY

Jane Walton was born in Feckenham, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on 9 March 1886 to parents Thomas and Annie Styler. She used to remember riding to school on a donkey and warming her bed with coal from the hearth.

At 24, she married Arthur Walton, and together they emigrated to Rhode Island, United States in 1910. They had one daughter, Marjery. The family lived in Cranston, Rhode Island. Arthur owned a jewelry store, while Jane raised their daughter, cooked, and tended a garden of English wildflowers.

Her husband died of a heart attack in 1942. Jane was widowed but carried on with her daughter.

She attributed her longevity to a fruit and vegetable diet, walking, a teetotal lifestyle, and her faith. Her main piece of advice was: “Don’t stay up late. Go to bed by 9 o’clock.”

Walton lived at home until she was 92, then with her daughter, and from age 108 until her own death on 6 January 1997 at the age 110 in a nursing home in Warwick, Rhode Island.

RECOGNITION

Her age was verified by Eli Logan from LongeviQuest in cooperation with Dr. Andrew Holmes from the European Supercentenarian Organisation (ESO), and validated on 25 September 2025.

ATTRIBUTION

* “Don’t stay up late” – Providence Journal, 11 March 1995

* “Centenarian Celebrities” – Providence Journal, 9 March 1996

* “Jane Walton, 110, of Warwick, Rhode Island’s oldest resident” – Providence Journal, 8 January 1997

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