John Tyler, America's tenth president, was born in 1790. He has two living grandchildren.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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John Tyler, America’s tenth president, was born in 1790. He has two living grandchildren.

Yes, grandchildren.

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Another way to think about this: There are people who could look at you today, in 2018, and say: “Yeah, my dad was 8 years old when the war started.”

“World War 2?”

“Ha, nope.”

“Oh wow, World War 1?”

“The Civil War.”

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[Sophia4]

1. Amazing!

[NBachers]

2. That's interesting!

[underpants]

3. Very interesting

[Wounded Bear]

4. Well, anybody over 60 or so...

has been alive for about 1/4 of American history.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. The history of the United States of America, maybe.

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The first English settlement of the U.S. that lasted was established in 1607, at Jamestown, Virginia. I hear there were people here already.

[Kaleva]

9. America didn't exist before the arrival of whites

Many native tribes referred to North America as Turtle Island

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Wow!

[sdfernando]

6. Well he did have 15 children /nt

[LeftInTX]

11. My 3rd g-grandfather had 24 kids who lived to adulthood

He was never married.

He fought in the Revolutionary War.

His son became a senator in NC and managed to get the whole brood legitimized by the NC legislature.

[GulfCoast66]

13. It was a small world back in those days

And we might well be kin. Family came into Isle if Wight VA in the 1650s and many moved to NC soon after. And they had lots of kids.

Ended up in Alabama on a plantation the family got for service in the revolutionary war. That was where my dad was born in the early 30s.

[crazycatlady]

8. This makes me wonder about Trump

The man fathered a child at 60.

[csziggy]

12. That's nothing - one of my ancestors remarried at the age of 74

And had 3 more kids. John Tucker and his first wife were both born in 1798 and had 8 children who lived to adults. The first wife died in 1870. After the war he remarried a 28 year old woman and they had another batch of kids.

His oldest son, George Washington Tucker, had 23 children by two wives - all those children were older than George's half siblings.

My great great grandfather was his youngest son. He only had one child and never saw him. He left his pregnant wife to enlist in the Confederate Army and died when his son was only six weeks old.

[3catwoman3]

10. How very interesting.

Those Tyler men must have randy old dudes.

[Oneironaut]

14. My mind was just blown.

This is a good reminder that the United States is a really young country. It's one thing to read about history, but another to see living people who experienced it at the time (or are related to people who did).

[ashling]

15. If you accomanied these descendants to see lions and tigers and bears

you would be taking a

trip to the zoo with Tyler's two


I'll go to my room .....