Besse Cooper from Walton County is recorded, Monday, January 31 as the world’s oldest person alive at 114 years and 158 days old. She is now staying at the Park Place Nursing Facility in Monroe.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said that the attending nurses at Monroe’s facility was not even aware that their resident has broken record.

Cooper earned the title when the current oldest person, Eunice Sanborn of Texas passed away Monday morning. Cooper and Sanborn are listed in the world’s supercentenarians, according to the Gerontology Research Group, adding they are referred as ‘supercentenarians’ following confirmation by the group as the ones to have lived at least 110 years.

Born on August 26, 1896 in Tenessee, Cooper moved to Georgia during World War I. AJC noted that Cooper, according to her son, chose to teach in Walton County in the 1940s because the pay was better for teachers in Georgia.

She had four children to husband, Luther whom she married in 1924. Her husband died in 1963 leaving her with 12 grandchildren and more than a dozen great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, all of whom celebrated with her on her 114th birthday, according to AJC. The oldest person in the world had her first child at 33.

Her lifestyle and genes are what Cooper’s family see as main reasons why she has stayed strong and well for more than a century.

"I mind my own business and I don't eat junk food," the world’s new oldest person was quoted as saying by the AJC.