Fig Tree John was a Desert Cahuilla chief of the Agua Dulce clan who lived at a spring near the Salton Sea—and he claimed he was born in the late 1700s. That would have made him around 130, or even older, when he died of the flu in April 1927.
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Fig Tree John was a Desert Cahuilla chief of the Agua Dulce clan who lived at a spring near the Salton Sea—and he claimed he was born in the late 1700s. That would have made him around 130, or even older, when he died of the flu in April 1927.