Posted on 03/12/2009 8:47:00 AM PDT by Edit35
As a boy, Harrison Tyler never gave much thought to his grandfather, John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States. "I grew up during World War II," he told Subaru Drive Magazine in 2002, "and surviving the war and the shortages was what was on everybody's mind. Being related to a president was never a thought."
Such a view may seem astonishing, but President Tyler died in 1862, 66 years before his grandson was born. In fact, Harrison Tyler's father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853 and died in 1935, so there were very few first-hand accounts of the president to inspire Harrison.
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Here earlier today: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205004/posts
Oh, I don't know. A lot of family lore that's passed down the generations gets muddled along the way. Doesn't make it a lie. Does any of this invalidate that Morton was your ancestor? There's actually an organization you can join for the descendants of signers of the Declaration. You could find relatives you never knew you had.
Are they all idiots? Try google if malaria hasn't rotted your brain too much to understand how.
BTTT
Very interesting article...
Hey coward, you never answered my question.
(P.S. You are so dang dumb, malaria is not a big problem in Panama.
Denge yes. But you would not know that. Denge is a name for new breed of kitty cat.
I remember reading about two years ago that the last person receiving veterans benefits from the Civil War had just died.
Seems that around 1918 a soldier who had fought in the Civil War (he was about 80 in 1919) had married a 17-year old young girl, and thus she was entitled to the veterans benefits paid to wives of soldiers.
She eventually passed away around 2003 at age 105 or so, but was the last person in America still receiving benefits DIRECTLY from civil war action.
I remember reading a story in the newspaper about two years ago that the last person receiving veterans benefits directly from the Civil War had just died.
Seems that a soldier who had fought in the Civil War was about 81 when he married a 17 year old girl around 1918.
He died soon after but she was entitled to the benefits that go to the wife of a Civil War soldier.
She eventually passed away around 2003 at age 105 or so, but was the last person in America still receiving benefits DIRECTLY from civil war action.
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