http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth P. T. Barnum traveled with this person, whom he claimed was 161 years old. She

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth P. T. Barnum traveled with this person, whom he claimed was 161 years old. She was, in fact, about 80 when she died.