Beulah Mae Young

lived a lot of life in her 111 years.

She sat on the lap of "Buffalo Bill" Cody during one of his Wild West shows in 1907. She saw violence erupt in South Bethlehem during the Great Steel Strike of 1909. She met Woodrow Wilson's daughter during a chance encounter on a train ride to Chicago in 1920.

Young lived through the Great Depression, Prohibition and two World Wars. And she spent almost her entire life in the Lehigh Valley.

The supercentenarian died Monday at the

Gracedale

nursing home in Upper Nazareth Township, where she had lived for the past 11 years. She was the home's oldest resident.

Born on Aug. 18, 1900, Young saw the births of six children, 18 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and 10 great-great grandchildren.

Young was described as the third-oldest living woman in Pennsylvania by Guinness Book of World Records officials last year.

A supercentenarian is someone who lives to be 110 or older. There have only been about 800 documented in history, according to the American Health Institute, although there were likely many other undocumented cases.

About one in every 1,000 centenarians reaches the age of 110, according to the Institute.

Although Young had not been mobile for several years, Schlough said she was cognitive and in excellent spirits right up until the end.

Just last month, Young celebrated her 111th birthday at Gracedale with 35 friends and family.

On Thursday, Young she began to lose her appetite and stop talking. Her last words, Schlough said, were her reassurance to a worried family member:

"I do not have pain."

At the outbreak of World War I, Young worked at the Redington Fuse Co. in Bethlehem Township, Pa., where she helped make ammunition for soldiers in England and France.

There she met the late George Young, whom she married in 1917. He died in 1954 at age 56.

All six of Young's children were delivered in the

house where she lived, according to her granddaughter, Cindy Seiple.

Young also worked during World War II at Taylor Wharton, a factory in Palmer Township, where she helped make oxygen cylinders for medics.

Throughout her life, Young had lived in 32 different homes, almost all of which were in the Lehigh Valley, according to her grandson, Craig Young.

Some of the places she lived include

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, Saylorsburg, Belfast and

, which was her last home before Gracedale.

In her later years, Young had a good sense of humor about her age, Craig Young said.

At her birthday party last month, she quipped that she kept the Fountain of Youth in her backyard.

When asked how she stayed alive for so long, she imparted the advice:

"Stay away from the doctors. They'll kill ya!"