[passionfruit]

I just found this reference in Wikipedia: “As of March 2011, Tyler has two living grandsons through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853–1935). Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr., was born in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. Harrison Tyler maintains the family home, “Sherwood Forest.”

Perhaps you meant that he has two living grandsons?

[constitutiongirl]

My family and I love to take walks in Hollywood Cemetary. We were showing some tourists John Tyler's grave and my eldest daughter struck up a conversation with a woman there. The lady works for the Virginia Historical Society and she told us that she personally knew one of John Tyler's grandsons. I was completely blown away. It seems like a long time ago but it really isn't.

I'm 41 and my grandmother (who passed away 2 years ago) recollected all the stories her grandfather told her about his father who fought under Gen. Lee.(My older children are 19 and 18 and they spent their young lives hearing my grandmother tell these stories, too.) My grandmother and her family also lived a stone's throw from Jubal Early and his family and I remember being 6 or 7 and my 90ish year old great-grandmother talking about how much her father disliked Early.