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Betsy Russell Baker (Brington, England, August 20, 1842 - Tecumseh, Nebraska, October 24, 1955) was an American supercentenarian first listed in the 1966 Guinness Book of Records as possibly one of the oldest people ever, and this was confirmed by researchers in 2002. She died 65 days after her 113th birthday, having been only the second person to undisputedly reach that age. The first one was fellow American Delina Filkins in 1928. While Baker was born in England, she was an immigrant to the U.S. at age four. She is the second-oldest person to die in the state of Nebraska. Her record as Nebraska's oldest resident was only broken by Helen Stetter, who died at 113 as well, in 2007. Clara Huhn, who was born in Nebraska, died in California in 2000, aged 113 years and 327 days.
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