Adelina Engargiola Domingues (February 19, 1888 – August 21, 2002) was a Cape Verdean American supercentenarian born to Francisco Garjola, an Italian sea captain, and a Cape Verdean woman in Brava, Cape Verde, when it was a colony of Portugal, and married there by arrangement to Mr. José Manuel Domingues in 1906. She and her husband emigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1907, where she worked as a seamstress and raised four children. Domingues later moved to Southern California, following her husband's death in 1950. Outliving her own children, she would eventually succeed another immigrant, fellow 114-year-old Grace Clawson (who was born in England), as the oldest documented person in the U.S. when the latter died in May 2002.
Aged 114 years and 183 days when she died from congestive heart failure in San Diego, California, she was the last living documented person born in 1888.
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