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12-29-2024, 03:35 PM
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Ok, speaking of old people (and way off topic), but I was shocked to find out that our tenth President, John Tyler, still has a living grandson. Look it up!
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12-29-2024, 03:48 PM
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Appropo of nothing, other than the foregoing discussion of deceased former ballplayers, but I saw a post earlier today that Charlie Maxwell had passed over the weekend. He was 97 and perhaps the oldest - then living - former ML player.
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12-29-2024, 04:30 PM
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John Tyler was the 10th President and died in 1862. He had his youngest child when he was 63, who then went on to father a child when he was 75. Today, there is still one living grandson of a president who ended his term in 1845.
Ah just saw someone beat me to it. Last edited by packs; 12-29-2024 at 04:32 PM.
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12-29-2024, 04:32 PM
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12-29-2024, 04:37 PM
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Not too many people today can say their grandfather was born in 1790. I believe the grandson, who is 96, is also related to Pocahontas on his mother's side. 234 years in three people. It's astonishing.
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12-29-2024, 04:40 PM
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There are plenty of people today who have a living great-grandparent. I tell people that my maternal great-grandfather was born in 1817. His little village in Poland was probably still cleaning up after the Napoleonic Wars!
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12-31-2024, 09:06 AM
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Back to Tyler. I'm big into family history and my own first/last name has a long history, though it was Johannes originally, not the Americanized John. In comparison to someone who has a grandfather born in 1790, my great-great-great-great grandfather Johannes was also born in 1790. So Tyler's grandson only has me beat by four generations.
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12-30-2024, 01:37 AM
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