Nannie Watson (née Kelley; 20 August 1876 – 13 July 1988) was a verified American supercentenarian. Nannie Watson was born in King George County, Virginia, as Nannie Bryant Kelley. She was one of seven siblings and her father was a Civil War veteran. She met her future husband Frank Watson in 1898 in Washington when working as a nurse's aid in Washington. She had travelled there with a steamboat. Two years later, they married and moved to Brooke, Virginia. He worked as a farmer there while Nannie was a gardener. The couple had three children in total. Frank died in 1936. She continued living in the same house until 1960, when she started living with her daughter Marian Fitzgerald. In 1980, she moved to a nursing home. She neither smoked nor drank in her life. Her nickname was "Aunt Nannie".
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