A Man Called Wrinkled Meat: The Story of John Smith of the Chippewa Tribe Aged 138 Years
There is a small Catholic cemetery located in Cass Lake, Minnesota. Cass Lake is a tiny hamlet in north-central Minnesota with a population of just under 800 souls. It is known for its bitter cold winters, heavy snowfall and timber. The town sits along the edge of the Chippewa National Forest, right in the heart of the ancestral land of the indigenous Ojibwe people of the Chippewa Tribal Nation for which the aforementioned forest is named. Tucked away in a corner of that small cemetery in Cass Lake is a rather nondescript rectangular burial plaque. The plaque reads: JOHN SMITH BORN IN 1784 DIED FEB 6, 1922 138 YEARS OLD If true, then this unassuming plaque in a small rural Minnesota cemetery marks the final resting place of the oldest living person ever recorded in all of human history! John Smith, the man often called Chief John Smith in the historical record, lived to be a purported 138 (0r 137) the exact number is s...