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?
Oldest would turn 122, the youngest would be 112. The former was a WW1 vet, the latter a WW2 vet.
I’m in your “old” category too. My paternal grandfather was born in 1850 (would be 169), my maternal grandfather in 1870. Both great grandfathers fought in the Civil War, one in the Texas CSA cavalry and the other in the Army of the Potomac.
129
126.
118 for my father’s father, who ran from Russian Communism at age 22, and made a life for himself and his family here while struggling to send as much back to his family in Russia as possible.
112 for my mother’s father, who came here at age 13 not speaking a word of English and graduated as valedictorian of his high school class 5 years later. He later became a doctor, despite not being admitted to many schools because he was Jewish, and went on to volunteer for service at age 35 in WW2 because he felt that he owed it to this country. Well after the war, he studied for the Florida medical boards at age 70 and passed the first time.
God, I so miss both of them!
D@mn...just imagine.
Maternal GF would be 119 and Paternal GF would be 112. My paternal GF’s sister died last month at 104.
My Grandfather was born on September 11, 1894. He would be 125.
No, he’s only my cousin. He doesn’t return my calls.
I’m the only one left to tend his grave, and I often sit beside him and wonder about what we have become.
My paternal GF was 35 but and he enlisted 12-08-41. They called him 'old man' on his ship. He didn't live long after the war though. Died of lung cancer in 1959.
The title of the article was “I shook the hand of a man who shook the hand of one of our Founding Fathers”.
Want to see photos of some of the Revolutionary War vets? Here:
https://www.varsitytutors.com/earlyamerica/rare-images/last-men-revolution
116. He tried to join the army at 14 for world war I. His mom found out and dragged his butt off the troop train (after boxing his ears for the trouble). Later became a lumberjack in the U.P.
CC
Born in 1886 so he would be 133.
I believe you about your grandfather and GG GF - it just takes somewhat unusual/fortuitous circumstances, and it could happen.
In fact, if 2 of the grandchildren of President John Tyler (born 1790) were FReepers, they’d certainly “win” the contest for oldest grandparent:
Wow, 1850! That’s the earliest on the thread so far. (I think)
Both of my grandfathers were born in 1893, one in June and the other in December.
My grandparents were all WWI vintage. They had their issues (Depression, WWII) before they got around to issuing their boomer babies, who were very distracted and didn’t get around to issuing me until the 1990’s.
History is a passion of mine so I’ve mined the parents’ memory banks. I would say their grandparents had the most interesting lives — and apparently they never got over the shock of the 20th century. Born before the airplane or the radio or the motion picture or the short skirt. Both a full supermarket and a moon landing could bring them to tears.
If 91 yr old Harrison Tyler is a Freeper....
his grandfather, President John Tyler, would be 229 yrs old.
My dad’s mother was born in 1876, she’d be 143. Born in a log house that still exists. Ulysses Grant was President. Two of her uncles had been Confederate soldiers.
He was born in Georgia and moved to Texas with his parents. My father was born in 1896 (when his father was 46) and I was born when my father was 48. So there are some long stretches in there with men having kids in their middle age.
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