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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Parachutes? Batteries?
What were the batteries powering back then?
Parachutes? In anticipation of jumping out of airplanes. For jumping off bridges or cliffs?
Her mother descended from John Tyler, and her father descended from Meriwether Lewis. Good American stock.
Calling Lazarus Long, calling Lazarus Long.
Is Gardner the namesake of Gardner’s Island in Long Isand Sound?
10th US President John Tyler was also elected to the Confederate Congress. But died before he could take his seat.
I’d imagine the parachutes were simply a style statement of some sort of extra baggy pants. And the batteries were as usual used for storing a charge. Pretty basic stuff.
“What about William Henry Harrison?”
Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too
Harrison died a month after taking office making Tyler President.
Harrison’s grandson Benjamin Harrison was elected the 23rd President.
The excerpts from his journal are quite interesting. He was involved in the Pequot Wars. Also seems to have made several crossings, also involved with Governor Winthrop and the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
We have a photo with 5 generations and the great great grandfather holding me. He was born in 1862 and missed the moon landing by a few months. Still really weird to consider the change he experienced.
These two gentlemen can truthfully say "When our grandfather was born, George Washington was the President of the United States."
My wife’s grandma passed along a cool family story. She was born in 1919 and passed away 2 years ago last month. Anyway, the family story is that grandma’s grandmother had bounced on the knee of the family lawyer as a baby when they were at his office doing business in Springfield Illinois. That lawyer was Abraham Lincoln.
Long Island was part of Saybrook Colony....
Minor correction to the article - John Tyler married Julia Gardiner on June 26, 1844, not July 23, according to Wikipedia and other sources. They were married at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue at the corner of West 10th Street in Greenwich Village. The church still exists today and the building is (of course) a landmark.
Bump for later.
Time Enough for Love!
After the Civil War, so many eligible young men had died during the conflict that it was not unusual for young maidens or a young widowed women to marry much older man, or remain single. There were consequently many young folks with very old grandpas.
OK thanks...
Storing a charge? What was the charge used for?
Five generations! My kids only got to know two of their grandparents. My mom and dad were pretty old (45/44)when they had me (surprise!). And I was fairly old when we started having kids (33/30).
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