Many of the soldiers were very young and I guess a few could be long-lived and if their kid was also long-lived, I suppose it is possible
I would guess that he is one of the last.
The last of the widows just died off a few years go.
I absolutely loves me some history.
I watched the patriots earlier tonight and saw some names from the revolution that I’d like to research.
Salem Poor (black)
Prince Eastabrook (black)
James Armistead Lafayette (black)
John Honeyman (white)
Sybil Ludington (white)
Peter Fransisco (white)
Betty Zane (white)
Around 1996 I was camping at a state campground near Vidalia, GA. I had a little 5 inch TV but it would only pick up a single UHF station.
I was watching it and they were interviewing a 100 year old Black lady. One of the more interesting things about her was that her Father, a Black man had served in the Confederate Army.
She recalled how when she was a child, he took a trip by railroad to Chattanooga. He was gone for a week and she learned he had attended a reunion of Confederate veterans.
I am sure she is gone by now.
I’m five generations out. The last of the sons of the Civil War veterans in my family died in the Sixties. I remember one of them from when I was three or four. He popped us some popcorn on the wood stove in his basement, where his wood shop was. I still have a couple of items he turned on his lathe.
I read that and said “no way”, and then I did a little math. If a vet serving in his teens had sired a child in his 70’s and that child had a long life, then I’ll be dipped in spit, it absolutely could happen. Wow.
RIP.
Escaped from Demorat Party slavery only to see most of his people slip into Demorat Party slavery by other means. Socialism then and now.
“Luke Martin Sr., who died at age 84 in 1920 when the son was just a few years old...”
Wow, Hugh Hefner before there was a Hugh Hefner. Still getting lucky at 83...long before Viagra.
I only have to live 11 more years to beat that record.
Im 76 now ao I have a good chance of making it since I can count on my 2 hands all my relatives that have died before 90 in the last 200 years.
A spouse, who was still receiving a pension check, passed away only a few years ago. Soldier married a young woman early in the 20th century and she lived into the 21st.
When we moved to GreenAcres 10 years ago, I was remarking to a new business colleague and brother in The LORD just how much I was enjoying being smack in the midst of a treasure trove of Civil War history, including being not far from the RR line where The General ran.
This brother, warmly but firmly (with tongue planted solidly in cheek) responded in his warm southern voice, "...son, we don't refer to it as 'The Civil War'...in these parts here, it's known as The War of Northern Aggression..."
Still makes me smile today and I'm proud to be the "token Yankee" friend of many area natives...
Nice find.
John Wayne was also the son of a Civil War veteran