Grandsons of tenth president John Tyler are STILL ALIVE...

This is kinda cool...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092227/US-president-John-Tylers-grandsons-STILL-ALIVE.html

I say! That is rather remarkable!

So old John had a son at 63 (with a 33yo wife). Sounds impressive until you see that Lyon had sons at 72 and 75 (with a wife that was 36/38). Frisky old goats.

... I thought his grandson was going to be Abe Vigoda

Amazing none the less.

Reminds me of the last Confederate soldier's wife that died in 2008.

In reply to MrJoshua:
...or, Julia and Sue each had a man friend.

RossD wrote: Reminds me of the last Confederate soldier's wife that died in 2008.

Insert joke about child brides and the South.

But that is damn impressive. How old was she at the time and how much older (no joke, serious Q) was her late husband. Did he marry later in life?

Adrian_Thompson wrote:

RossD wrote: Reminds me of the last Confederate soldier's wife that died in 2008.

Insert joke about child brides and the South. But that is damn impressive. How old was she at the time and how much older (no joke, serious Q) was her late husband. Did he marry later in life?

IIRC, she was 16 and he was in his mid 80's. I think she was marrying his pension. So not really a child bride (16 in the 1930's was not that young), but certainly not a normal relationship that allowed for it. She was born in 1914-1917ish.

DeadSkunk wrote: In reply to MrJoshua: ...or, Julia and Sue each had a man friend.

Definitely crossed my mind.

Cool article on NPR about such things

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/07/146534518/rasputin-was-my-neighbor-and-other-true-tales-of-time-travel

In reply to Adrian_Thompson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Martin

Really not that unusual, or perverted, or criminal in those days to have a much younger bride. My maternal grandfather had 4 wives (one at a time, you perverts) over 50 years or so, all of whom were in their early 20's when he married them, all of whom died in childbirth... He wound up with 11 kids, I think.

The women (girls) were marrying security, and the men were getting a housekeeper and nanny. Having married (and divorced) around the theory of romantic love, I'm not sure which is better.

As to creating the kids, its amazing what popsicle sticks and duct tape will do for a withered pecker.

Streetwiseguy wrote: As to creating the kids, its amazing what popsicle sticks and duct tape will do for a withered pecker.

Hopefully not spoken from experience!

Storz wrote: Cool article on NPR about such things http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/02/07/146534518/rasputin-was-my-neighbor-and-other-true-tales-of-time-travel

I find stuff like this fascinating.

As for me, I have very foggy memories of my great grandmother. She died when I was two and a half, but I do remember being in her house. I remember a very old woman in a wheelchair and I was afraid to go near her. She was born in 1882.

I have much clearer memories of my grandmother's uncle, who died when I was eight. He was a WWI veteran and Teddy Roosevelt style badass. He lived his life in Connecticut, but hunted in Alaska and Africa. He was born in 1884. I love thinking about the changes he saw during his lifetime.

In reply to Streetwiseguy:

Your grandfather must have had a huge head!

Woody wrote: I find stuff like this fascinating. As for me, I have very foggy memories of my great grandmother. She died when I was two and a half, but I do remember being in her house. I remember a very old woman in a wheelchair and I was afraid to go near her. She was born in 1882.

I have always liked listening to the stories of older folks. My maternal grandmother died in 1959 when I was 16. I still remember some of the stories she told my brother and I about how things were when she was growing up. And since she was born in 1863 some of them were fascinating.

But now I get to tell my great nieces and nephews about things like telephone "party lines" and reading or listening to the radio in the evening because there was no TV. And sometimes I think that they don't believe me.

Hell, kids at work look at me like a math problem when I tell them about the birth of CDs and the internet. God help you if you say TVs used to have knobs on them.

my cousin's 10 year old daughter didn't believe me when i told her a couple of weeks ago that we didn't have cell phones when we were kids in the 80's and 90's..

Saw a kid in his early teens look at an analog clock (the type with hands) and be completely confused about how to read it. This was in 1995 or so. Not sure who to blame...

I made a comment today which included 'more of (fill in the blank) than Carter's has pills...' and got a bunch of blank stares. Damn.

Curmudgeon wrote: I made a comment today which included 'more of (fill in the blank) than Carter's has pills...' and got a bunch of blank stares. Damn.

Yeah, I'm lost on this one.

I would have gotten it Curmudgeon!

Gearheadotaku wrote: Saw a kid in his early teens look at an analog clock (the type with hands) and be completely confused about how to read it. This was in 1995 or so. Not sure who to blame...

my 4 year old niece can read an analog clock but a digital one confuses her... they taught her how to read one in preschool..

Curmudgeon wrote: I made a comment today which included 'more of (fill in the blank) than Carter's has pills...' and got a bunch of blank stares. Damn.

I get that from SWMBO everytime I use it. She's only two years younger than me. I think it might also be a regional thing as well as an age thing...

EastCoastMojo wrote: I would have gotten it Curmudgeon!

I certainly would hate to have a 'torpedoed', er, 'torpid' liver whatever that is. I also wonder why they used a black raven in their ads, seems to me that would scare people off.