<p>Antisa Khvichava from western Georgia was born July 8, 1880, said Georgiy Meurnishvili, spokesman for the civil registry at the justice ministry.<br /><br />According to records, the woman, who lives with her 40-year-old grandson in a country house in the mountains, retired from her job as a tea and corn picker in 1965 when she was 85, the Daily Mail reported.<br />"I've always been healthy, and I've worked all my life - at home and at the farm," Antisa said. <br /><br />Sitting in a chair, Antisa spoke quietly through an interpreter - since she never went to school to learn Georgian and speaks only the local language, Mingrelian.<br />Her age couldn't immediately be independently verified. Her birth certificate was lost - one of the great number to have disappeared in the past century amid revolutions and a civil war which followed the collapse of the USSR.<br /><br />But Meurnishvili showed two Soviet-era documents that he says attest to her age. <br />Scores of officials, neighbours, friends, and descendants backed up her claim as the world's top senior.<br /><br />The Gerontology Research Group currently recognises 114-year-old Eugenie Blanchard of Saint Barthelemy, France, as the world's oldest person. The US-based research group is yet to examine Antisa's claim. <br /><br />Antisa has a son, 10 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and six great, great grandchidren.<br /></p>
<p>Antisa Khvichava from western Georgia was born July 8, 1880, said Georgiy Meurnishvili, spokesman for the civil registry at the justice ministry.<br /><br />According to records, the woman, who lives with her 40-year-old grandson in a country house in the mountains, retired from her job as a tea and corn picker in 1965 when she was 85, the Daily Mail reported.<br />"I've always been healthy, and I've worked all my life - at home and at the farm," Antisa said. <br /><br />Sitting in a chair, Antisa spoke quietly through an interpreter - since she never went to school to learn Georgian and speaks only the local language, Mingrelian.<br />Her age couldn't immediately be independently verified. Her birth certificate was lost - one of the great number to have disappeared in the past century amid revolutions and a civil war which followed the collapse of the USSR.<br /><br />But Meurnishvili showed two Soviet-era documents that he says attest to her age. <br />Scores of officials, neighbours, friends, and descendants backed up her claim as the world's top senior.<br /><br />The Gerontology Research Group currently recognises 114-year-old Eugenie Blanchard of Saint Barthelemy, France, as the world's oldest person. The US-based research group is yet to examine Antisa's claim. <br /><br />Antisa has a son, 10 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and six great, great grandchidren.<br /></p>