Posted on 01/07/2018 1:58:31 PM PST by Gamecock
More than 150 years after the death of their grandfather, a pair of grandson's belonging to the 10th President of the United States John Tyler are still alive.
They are both the son's of of Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr., the presidents fourth son.
To put that in perspective, that means three generations of Tyler men have managed to span 227 years and counting.
Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. was born in 1924 to Lyon Gardiner Tyler, the son of the late president and still lives in Tennessee.
John Tyler, born in 1790, grew up on a Virginia plantation, became a lawyer, and went on to become the nation's tenth president after the death of his predecessor, William Henry Harrison in 1841.
His first wife, Letitia Christian Tyler, died a year later while he was in office.
Tyler married Julia Gardiner, a woman from a wealthy Long Island family, on July 23, 1844, towards the tail-end of his one-term presidency.
She was 30 years his junior at 24. He was also the first president to marry while holding office.
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What about William Henry Harrison?
That’s quite something to think about. I was always amazed that I could talk to my Grandmother and hear second-hand stories from her mother, about the Civil War.
Thats amazing
I am 66 , but my mother’s father was born in 1868 just three years after the end of the civil war.
He was 51 when my mother was born in 1919.
Van Buren’s grandchildren demand a recount.
So did Martin Van Buren have any grandkids?
Yes!
I dated one of his descendants in the early 70s. She was gorgeous.
My GG Grandfather who rode with Boylstons Mississippi cavalry at Vicksburg etc had a late in life family and his last of 23 total children just died a few years ago in her early 90s
Thomas Raspberry Byrd had three of his last children in his 70s pre ED dope
Three wives he outlived the first two
saw an article on this a year or two ago. The remarkable thing to me is that John Tyler was born in the late 1700’s.
Not many people alive can claim to have a grandparent from that century.
Maybe just The Van Buren Boys!!
Jefferson Davis was married to a daughter of John Tyler, but she died.
Hes still dead.
So what. My nephew is the 12th generation male in one line in the U.S. 365 years across the generations.
Have a kid, break the record!
My Dad was born on 1892 and my son was born in 1999. Grandfather and grandson have already lived in three different centuries and, if God wills it, we could hit four different centuries.
Hmm, those are old grandsons
1700s...
1800s
1900s
2000s
That’s 4 centuries.
What was the most advanced technology of the 1700s? The typewriter? Horse and buggy?
We still have people living lifestyles like in the 1700s, up in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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