67 was pretty good for back then, Pelham. What was the average life-span, 32 or something?
And who wants to live to be 90 if you gotta have wooden teeth?
Not me. They didn't even have jello, so whaddya gonna eat?
Think about it.
67 was pretty good for back then, Pelham. What was the average life-span, 32 or something?
And who wants to live to be 90 if you gotta have wooden teeth?
Not me. They didn't even have jello, so whaddya gonna eat?
Think about it.
“67 was pretty good for back then, Pelham. What was the average life-span, 32 or something?”
John Adams lived to be 90 and Thomas Jefferson lived to be 83. Ben Franklin was 84.
My dad had maternal g-grandparents born around 1809. They both lived around 80 years. The g-grandfather might have lived longer but he was hit and killed by a locomotive as he walked home along some RR tracks. Deaf. His unfortunate death resulted in a lawsuit that made it to the Mississippi State Supreme Court, which is the main reason that I know the details of his demise. IIRC his father had been an Elector for Andrew Jackson, which has nothing to do with the rest of my story.
They might not have had jello, but they had...