Cousin Rick found this.    wikipedia has her parents & grandmother.    other articles pointers follow    Paul Le B  l'Ascension  Louisiane    ============================================  Rick Arsenault   P.E.I.-born oldest living American dies at 114    WESTMORELAND, N.H. — Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days.  She died Sunday at a nursing home in Westmoreland but was active until about two weeks before her death, her granddaughter Katherine Ray said.  "She just enjoyed life. She never thought of dying at all," Katherine Ray said. "She was planning for her birthday party."  Even with her recent decline, Ray managed an interview with a reporter last week, her granddaughter said.  Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second-oldest in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group.  Ray was born May 17, 1895, in Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island. She moved to the United States at age three.  Ray’s husband, Walter, died in 1967. Survivors include two sons, eight grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren.    =============================================    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Josephine_Ray    Born in Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada to French Canadian (Acadian) parents, Sabin Arsenault and Lydie Anne Blanchard, Mary Josephine moved to the United States at age three. Her father died when she was 7 and her mother also died when she was 15. Mary went out on her own, working in factories in Maine. Later she married Walter Ray (in the 1920s; he died in 1967) and moved to New Hampshire. Later, Mary Jo retired to Florida at age 80. She lived there on her own until 100, when her family brought her back to New Hampshire. At age 102, she moved into a nursing home when the family felt they could no longer care for her at home. Her paternal grandmother, Agnès Arsenault, died at the age of 97 in 1909.    ==============================================    other articles    http://www.thestar.com/news/obituary/article/776996--mary-ray-114-oldest-citizen-of-both-canada-and-u-s    http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/offbeat/new_hampshires_mary_josephine_ray_oldest_person_in_us_092009    http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Mary+Josephine+Ray    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6273ZB20100308