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?
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Yes, my great-grandfather and I’ll be 65 in October. Between he and my grand-father I learned a lot of real history, not the revisionist sanitized history they teach today. I have tried to pass what they told me down to my daughter and grand-daughter and I hope they were paying attention. I’m the closest thing they will ever have to first/second hand information about the War.
My Great grand father, Patrick McCloskey, was born in 1848 and came to America at 16 in 1864 settled in the Anthracite Coal region of North East Pa. He passed in 1930.
My Grandfather, Hugh McCloskey, was born in 1882 was a coal miner, became a steam shovel operator (yes, real steam) and traveled all over the country as a demonstrator for the Bucyrus Shovel Co. and the Marion Steam Shovel Co. ended up in NYC and NJ as a shovel runner and met my Grandmother Mary Murphy. He passed in 1970 at 88.
My Father, Robert McCloskey, was born in Christ Hospital in Jersey City in 1932 and was a Electrical Contractor. He passed in 2018 at 86.
I was born in 1955 and am still going at the moment....
I noticed everyone is offering only one date and I’m wondering which grandpa you’re thinking of. Mom’s, Dad’s, or just the grandpa you knew?
I didn’t know either of mine, but I guess Mom’s would be about 120 and Dad’s somewhere near 140.
That reminds me of a Reader’s Digest article I read 30 or so years ago.
The writer was reminiscing about his father taking him to the confederate old folks home when he was a young boy to meet one of the old timers. When the old timer was a young boy his father had taken him to meet an old man who as a boy fought in the American Revolution.
The title of the article was “I shook the hand of a man who shook the hand of one of our Founding Fathers”.
Not enough fingers and toes to calculate my grandfathers projected age....
Not enough fingers and toes to calculate my grandfathers projected age....
Dad’s dad: 140
Mom’s dad: 126
My father remembered the flight of The Spirit of St. Louis. Speaking of airships, one of his most vivid memories was of the visit of the German airship Graf Zeppelin to Los Angeles International Airport in 1929--an event that caused a sensation throughout Southern California. The Graf Zeppelin was the world's longest airship at the time and one of the world's biggest aircraft.
IIRC, there’s a steam museum in NC that has a working Bucyrus steam shovel.
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My paternal grandfather came west in a covered wagon.
My grandfather was born in 1895.
The first plane he ever flew in was a Curtiss JN4 in France in 1918. The last plane he flew in was a Boeing 747.
We watched the 1969 moon landing at his house with him.
If he were alive he would be 124.
My paternal GF would be about 133, I think. He was a few years older than my grandmother, who was born in 1890.
Maternal GF would be 136. He died only a few months short of 100 in 1986. Saw a lot of history during the time he lived. He was 64 when I was born.
Paternal GF would have been 128, but he died at 50 from alcohol induced disease on Jan 1 1942, 8 years before I was born.
The best thing for a kid is to know and talk to their grand-parents.
I can remember asking my GG-father about the war and if any of my ancestors fought for the Confederacy. He said they did but they didn’t want to. They stayed out of it as long as they could. They didn’t believe in slavery. They were mostly poor farmers with a lot of kids and their priority was to farm and feed the family...until the Yankee’s attacked them, burned their farms, ruined what crops they had, and stole their livestock. After that they joined the war and fought for the Confederacy. The Union soldiers that came through didn’t know or care that not everybody in the South supported slavery. My ancestors fought for their lives and their family, not for slavery. The story my GG-father told me could have been a page out of the movie Mel Gibson was in about the Revolutionary War. The sad thing is, I’d be willing to bet that most of the Confederate soldiers that fought and died during the Civil War were not fighting for slavery.
My family has always been Republican and I remember asking my grand-mother why I couldn’t bring my Black friend home with me after school to visit since we walked home together anyway. She said it was OK to walk home with her and be friends at school but not to let her inside the gate. My grand-mother was one of the most loving people I ever knew so I didn’t understand. This was in Chattanooga in the 60’s during the civil right’s protests. She said that she didn’t have anything at all against Black people but if “some” people saw her at our house that they would burn the house down. That was my lesson on “Southern Democrats” and racism.
I never knew any of my grandparents. They all died before I was born in 1947.
My Grandfather, Thomas Jefferson (Redacted) was born on the 4th of July, 1979.
His first wife died in the Spanish Flu. He married my grandmother shortly thereafter. She was 25 years younger than he.
Oh, the stories I could tell....
My maternal grandfather, James Clark, who died before I was born, was also born in 1883, I think.
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