An Ohio woman who was recognized as the oldest living person in the United States peacefully passed away at her Cleveland Heights Home.

According to The Associated Press, Lessie Brown passed away on Tuesday at 114 years old. The granddaughter of slaves, Brown was born in 1904 in Georgia and lived most of her adolescent years outside of Atlanta in Stockbridge. When Brown was 18, she and her family moved north to Cleveland, Ohio.

After meeting her husband, Robert, at a Halloween party in 1924, the two exchanged vows after just two months of dating, writes Cleveland Magazine. The couple remained married for 66 years until Robert's passing in 1991. During their union, Brown gave birth to three girls and two boys. Her family members famously referred to her as "Big Momma," according to the magazine.

The Associated Press reports Brown officially became the oldest living person in the country on May 9, 2018. Her daughter, Verline Wilson, recalls that when she informed her mother of her feat, she responded with "That's good."

As for her secret to living well into her 100s? Some family members claim a steady diet of sweet potatoes, which Brown said she consumed every day, but that it was ultimately “God's will," per The Associated Press.

"Oh, I don’t know. A lot of them say it’s because I ate a lot of sweet potatoes, but I don’t think that’s it. I don’t know, God’s will," Brown confessed.

A devout Christian, Brown was a lifelong member of Emmanuel Street Baptist Church in Cleveland for nearly 70 years. When she reached 110 years old, she stopped attending service in person and instead read her Bible at home.

"She may have not been present, but her faith never wavered," senior pastor David A. Cobb Jr. said to Cleveland Magazine in September 2018.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama recognized Brown on her 112th birthday. According to her grandson Ronald Wilson, they mailed his grandmother a letter. Growing up in the segregated South, Brown never imagined she would experience the opportunity to vote for the country's first Black president.

"That meant a lot to her because in the era that she grew up in, she never thought she'd be able to vote for a Black president. But she did — twice," Wilson said.

May she rest in peace.

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