After two seasons of wondering if The Ghoul’s ( Walton Goggins) family is alive – we’ve known for quite some time that his wife ( Frances Turner) and daughter (Teagan Meredith) were supposed to be ...

Edith Renfrow Smith became known in recent years for her advanced age and memory, which involved meeting important historical figures and witnessing major change. Mike Johnson gives update on Jan. 6 ...

Last year, for Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon spoke with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago, who has died at 111 years old. Edith Renfrow Smith died Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 111. In ...

Edith Renfrow Smith died Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 111. In addition to a notably long life — she was one of a very small number of "supercentenarians," or people who live to at least 110 ...

Edith Renfrow Smith was born in Iowa two weeks before the start of World War I. Her earliest memories involve the end of the war in 1918 and a neighbor who came home having lost both legs. She met ...

Jan 5 (Reuters) - Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who escaped bondage with a group led by abolitionist John ...

Edith Renfrow Smith, the granddaughter of slaves, died at the age of 111. In 1937, she became the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa. Grinnell College honored her by awarding ...

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Edith Renfrow Smith, the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher, remained mentally sharp well past 100, becoming the subject for medical ...

Every year at this time the outstanding movie channel, Turner Classic Movies, does a short feature called “TCM Remembers,” in which it sets to music a montage of film clips of actors and actresses who ...