Anna Martin's husband was a ditch-digger in Oklahoma. While wealthy women with access to elaborate medical technology have given birth up to age 74, Anna and her husband used traditional time-tested procedures.
There are many factors to consider when documenting the oldest woman to give birth. Unscrupulous clinics have used extreme methods to produce babies in women up to 74 years of age. No names of such women will be provided in an effort to discourage these orphan-creating practices.
The oldest woman known to conceive and deliver via traditional methods that use no outside involvements (other than that of a man) is Anna Martin of Tulsa, Oklahoma who gave birth at age 57 years 4 months in November of 1972. She named her daughter Mary-Jane for unknown reasons.