Posted on 10/04/2020 10:46:24 AM PDT by Borges
And a younger brother survives!
Think about this for a moment: he can say, with complete honesty, “When my grandfather was born, George Washington was the president”.
The grandson (yes, grandson, not great grandson, not great great grandson, but grandson) of President John Tyler - John Tyler was born in 1790.
“Tyler” as in Tippecanoe and Tyler too?
President John Tyler was twice married and sired fifteen children. Lyon Tyler’s own father was a septuagenarian when he was born in 1924 (approximately sixty-two years after his grandfather’s death).
Former President Tyler was working for the Confederacy at the time of his passing in 1862.
Where you goin’ with that shotgun, Johnny?
Pardon me while I whip out this (sounds of a crowd gasping) context!
Oh boy, are we going on a Blazing Saddles lines contest?......ROTFL
Pardon me while I whip out this (sounds of a crowd gasping) context!
Oh boy, are we going on a Blazing Saddles lines contest?......ROTFL
He had a kid at 63. That brings us to 1853.
That child had a kid at 75. That brings us to 1928.
That “kid” is 92 now :)
Lyon Tyler is deceased.
Harrison Tyler is still alive.
I left out some of the middle names.
Incredible story.
Correct me if i’m wrong.
YES! DO IT!
I was totally stumped by the name John Tyler, thinking it was someone in our modern culture and asking myself WHY, WHY did this name not register with me! Then- finding out who the inference was meant for, our 10th US President, I realized context was needed for Simpletons like me to comprehend the import of the original posters intentions.
The Blazing Saddles reference came out of the blue. Pinky swear. (oops)
We’re talking a span of 230 years!!!
That can potentially be 10 generations!
In some neighborhoods. 15 generations :)
He died in the 1860’s...I want to say that he sired his youngest child late in life. Now if the grandson was born in 1928, the son must have sired the grandson late in life too.
See my post 29. I did the leg work :)
Truly incredible
Looks like Harrison needs to begin the begat while the begattin’s good!
Lol
This was his father. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon_Gardiner_Tyler
About eight years ago I was having my watch serviced at Rowland jewelers in Rockford, Illinois. Like many decaying, formerly industrial cities in the rust belt, Rockford, has had an unusually large number of real artisans who grew old, but never left.
This jeweler looked to be well into his ‘90s, and one of the documents on his wall belonged to his grandfather. It seems he was a Canadian who went south to join the Union army at the age of 17. He apparently married a much younger bride long after the war, and I was having my watchband replaced by his grandson.
That is at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA. I visited there last year and it is the same cemetery where two other Presidents James Monroe and also (of the Confederate States of America) Jefferson Davis are buried. During that trip, I got to also see gravesites of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, so six presidential gravesites in total.
My great grandfather was born in 1853 and did not marry until 1889. He did not father my grandfather until 1909 (when he would have been in his middle fifties) and he lived until 1941 (run over by a car of all things). Therefore, as a kid, I got to hear a story or two from my grandfather about a man who was born some years before Canada became it’s own independent country in 1867.
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