Reading the article... Her husband’s parents were slaves. She was born 1911. Say her husband was 20 years older, that would put him born in 1891 Her husband’s parents would have to have been 26 years older than her husband for it to work. Possible.
Say you had a man who was old enough to remember being a slave, would have had to have been born in 1845. Say they lived to be a hundred, that would be 1945. Someone old enough to remember them as an adult would have been born about 1925, and be nearly 90 now.
This lady must be one of the last people around who knew someone who was a slave. If there’s 40 years between her and her husband, her husband would have been born in 1871, and her husband’s father would have been about 26 years older than his son. Or 33 and 33 would work as well.
my great grand father was a confederate soldier i knew him he lived til i was 19.
Knew one named Laura. She supposedly 7 or 8 in 1861. She
lived in a house on our place. She told me about the Indians
that came to the red clay hill for 6 days or so every year
until the late 1930s. She said everyone around had to pen up their chickens when they were present. Hill was on our place
and was less than a 1/4 mile from her house.
She told me this in 1946 to 48 time frame, I was born in 40.
My grandmother was born in 1896. She heard about the War of Northern Aggression from her grandparents who endured Sherman’s “March”.
In 1995 I read the obituary of Percival Hopkins Spencer, an aviation pioneer who had just died at the age of 97. His pilot’s license had been personally signed by Orville Wright. His father, Christopher Miner Spencer was 64 when he was born and was the inventor of the Spencer repeating rifle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Miner_Spencer
“Although the Spencer rifle had been developed as early as 1859, it was not initially used by the Union. On August 18, 1863, Christopher Spencer walked into the White House carrying one of his rifles and a supply of cartridges. He walked past the sentries, and into Abraham Lincoln’s office. After some discussion, he returned the following afternoon, when Spencer and Lincoln were joined by Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War and other officials, and the group then proceeded to walk out on the Mall. Near the site of the Washington Monument, they engaged in target shooting.”