Interesting Factoid From Sportsradio

[ProfessorGAC]

Yeah, it was on sportsradio.
The grandson of John Tyler, who was president from 1841 to 1845, is still alive.
His name is Harrison Ruffin Tyler.
Apparently Tyler had a son at age 68. That son had a son at age 73. And Harrison is 96 or 97.
So, there's a living grandchild of a guy who was POTUS 180 years ago!
Just thought this was an interesting historical nugget.

[brooklynite]

1. There was a concept of Civil War widows, some of whom lasted into the 21th Century...

...basically very young women who married very old men.

[mitch96]

6. "basically very young women who married very old men." I wonder if that's b/c

All the available young men were killed in the war?
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[Ex Lurker]

7. It was during the great depression

it was a way to get a pension. I believe the last one died just a few years ago.

[mitch96]

13. OOps. wrong time frame... nt

[panader0]

2. Did Harrison Ruffin Tyler have children?

[Mr.Bill]

3. My great grandfather

arrived in the USA in 1852. I am only the third generation born here.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Harriet Tubman lived in the same worlds as Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan.

[iemanja]

8. Reagan, how so?

She died in 1888.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. She died in 1913.

[iemanja]

10. Okay, so what's the connection to Reagan?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. He was born in 1911. Her life overlaps Jefferson's and Reagan's.

[iemanja]

12. I see. nt

[Tomconroy]

5. And this:

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