“I was only a young boy, but I thought - how cool! I know a man, who knows a man - who met George Washington!”
It is interesting how a single life can bridge eras. The great-grandmother that held me as a baby sat in Robert E. Lee’s lap!
As a teenager, my Dad was fascinated listening to his great-grandfather - who lived to be 99 - talk about going downtown (Philadelphia) to see Lincoln’s funeral train. Dad became a lifelong Civil War buff. In this case, nobody was over 35 when their kids were born.