Posted on 05/28/2019 7:23:58 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Not phishing for Doxing so if you are not comfortable don't reply or fudge the numbers by a few.
There is such a wealth of history held by the posters on FR. I was thinking how my own father was alive when Lindberg crossed the Atlantic and when the Hindenburg burned and My grandfather was teen when the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk.
My grandfather would be 129 years +- today. How about yours?
118. He was the oldest man on his ship during WWII. Volunteered the night of Peral Harbor at the age of 40. Survived getting kamikazied and lived to be 92.
115...my dad is still living at 92
They didn’t keep accurate records where my grandfather was born, so I’ll just stick to my Dad. He would be nearly 123 if alive today. Woodrow Wilson was President when he arrived in Ellis Island.
(And I’m not that old—it’s a long story.)
No lie - my maternal grandfather was born in 1854, 107 years before I was born.
My maternal great-grandfather was born in 1799.
Lots of May/December weddings back then.
135
132
134. He was born in 1885. His father was 50 at the time, so my grandfather’s dad was born in 1835.
One would be 128, the other 125. Both died when I was a baby, so the only grandpa I knew was my great-grandfather, born in 1876. He died when I was ten.
Mine would be 120. The thing is, I had a lot of good conversations with my great-grandfather when I was little. He was born in 1865, the last year of the Civil War, and was a great source of information about the war since he grew up immediately in the aftermath. He died in 1963 at 98 years old. My ancestors were Scottish/Welsh immigrants that came here in the mid-1700’s so my family has always had good oral history that they passed down to the kids in the family. I also have Danish (Viking) ancestors that did the same thing.
133 and 155
My grandfather born in England 1883 would be 136 years old.
Mine would be 134
My grandfather was well into his teens when the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. I watched the first moon landing with him.
I challenge younger people to compare what they are doing with what their parents and grandparents were doing at that same age.
1879 =140 Gramps
1919 =100 Dad
Dad’s dad would be 135, dad would be 97. I’m a young’un, adopted when dad was 43.
Considering my parents moved us to California when I was young, I rarely saw her or my cousins growing up. The only time I spent several days together with cousins was nearly 50 years ago, and we hardly stay in contact.
I have only one grandchild, and he just finished up second grade. I am so lucky that he lives near us, close enough that we're his "daycare" after school. He'll have good memories of our times together as he grows up, to include walking to and from school several times a week.
I certainly cherish those moments.
Jimminy Christmas! Your great-grandfather.
Now that would have been a treat for me.
Wow! Just curious, where were they born?
Can’t look up mom’s dad, because his name was Woods, and anytime you search ‘Woods’, you get nothing but Tiger Woods.
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