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re: Who is the earliest born person you have ever met?
Posted on 6/8/25 at 7:19 am to Bard
Posted on 6/8/25 at 7:19 am to Bard
Great grandma. When I was a small child she still lived in the family homestead. There was a well for water and a honey bucket for bathroom service.
I also used to mow yards and help take care of a poodle for an old lady across the street when I was a child. She lost relatives in WWI, WWII, Korea. She told me if they ever come to draft me, to run like hell.
She used to love to talk, and I loved to listen to her stories about growing up in a cabin in Kansas.
I really enjoy old timers stories. Its a microcosm of life we will never see again.
I also used to mow yards and help take care of a poodle for an old lady across the street when I was a child. She lost relatives in WWI, WWII, Korea. She told me if they ever come to draft me, to run like hell.
She used to love to talk, and I loved to listen to her stories about growing up in a cabin in Kansas.
I really enjoy old timers stories. Its a microcosm of life we will never see again.
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Posted on 6/8/25 at 7:44 am to LSUGrad9295
Yea, typo…. More likely auto-fill at work. This was my great-grand mother.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 7:49 am to UFFan
It is odd sometimes to think there are conceivably people alive and walking right now who knew people born in the early-mid 1800s.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 7:55 am to UFFan
My mind can't figure this out. Did I meet somebody born in the 1700s? I fricken don't know.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 10:37 am to aTmTexas Dillo
My great-great grandmother was born in 1896. I’ve got a pic of her holding me as a baby in 1984 with my great grandmother (born in 1913), mamaw and mom. Pretty cool five generation picture.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 10:39 am to Barrister
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My great-grandfather was born in 1868
That’s crazy to think he was born right after the civil war.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 10:54 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
My great grandmother was born in 1870. When she was 40 she was pronounced dead on an operating table. When she was being taken to the morgue she sat up and asked what was going on.
She was also mean as a snake.
She was also mean as a snake.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 10:58 am to UFFan
I met a man in his 90s who was born in 1893.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 11:00 am to Knocksville
My Great grandma was born in 1900 and died in 1994. We have a 4 generation picture.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:06 pm to UFFan
1911. My maternal great-aunt.
She passed in '04. Two weeks from turning 93. My grandma, her sister, passed in '09, she was 93.
She passed in '04. Two weeks from turning 93. My grandma, her sister, passed in '09, she was 93.
This post was edited on 6/8/25 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:08 pm to OlGrandad
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My great grandmother
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was pronounced dead on an operating table.
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When she was being taken to the morgue she sat up and asked what was going on.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:10 pm to Circle K Beggar
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There was a relative on my dad’s side who lived until 108. He was born in 1892 and died in 2000
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:15 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
My paternal grandmother was born in 1883. I knew her pretty well and she was a sweetheart. She was half Cherokee.
My MiL and her sister knew their grandfather well because he lived to be 96 and lived close by. He was born in 1844 and spent 4 years marching around Virginia and Pennsylvania with Robert E. Lee, then walked back to south Alabama from Appomattox.
Our past is not that distant.
My MiL and her sister knew their grandfather well because he lived to be 96 and lived close by. He was born in 1844 and spent 4 years marching around Virginia and Pennsylvania with Robert E. Lee, then walked back to south Alabama from Appomattox.
Our past is not that distant.
This post was edited on 6/8/25 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:19 pm to SpotCheckBilly
Harrison Ruffin Tyler died last month, his grandfather was President Tyler born in 1790. FDR paid his tuition ,since he was friends with his late father.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:20 pm to UFFan
my great-grandfather was one of the last 50 (so I was told) civil war veterans left alive. he was born in 1845 - died in 1948. I have few memories of him since nobody made a big deal out of his service - he was just another "old man" - but I do have a few memories of some of his tales - He talked about a 'blue belly' that they captured a couple of times - thought he was getting 'caught on purpose' because they had shared their whiskey with him before they let him go. I think it was the 'blue belly' remark that makes me remember it.
I was 10 when he died - don't know what he died from but he was real active even in his later years. When I was about 6, he walked by our house on 3rd street in Leesville - on his way home which was about 10 miles out on Kurthwood Rd - close to Silver Creek. He would have been about 102 then.
I sure wish now had spent a lot more time with him.
I was 10 when he died - don't know what he died from but he was real active even in his later years. When I was about 6, he walked by our house on 3rd street in Leesville - on his way home which was about 10 miles out on Kurthwood Rd - close to Silver Creek. He would have been about 102 then.
I sure wish now had spent a lot more time with him.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:31 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
My grandmother was born in 1915 and died in 2000.
Her grandfather on her mother’s side was wounded at Shiloh.
He died in 1929 and she was very close to him and me.
It always seems weird that someone I knew very well knew someone very well who fought in the Civil War.
Her grandfather on her mother’s side was wounded at Shiloh.
He died in 1929 and she was very close to him and me.
It always seems weird that someone I knew very well knew someone very well who fought in the Civil War.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:36 pm to UFFan
Grandfather 1896
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:39 pm to UFFan
I met a Civil War vet
Posted on 6/8/25 at 12:44 pm to UFFan
All four of my grandparents were born in the 1890's. One grandmother told me she hadn't trusted the Russians since the revolution, that got my attention. It was in 1917 so she would have been close to 20.
An uncle of a grandmother was born in 1875 and I do have memories of him, and my great aunt. They would buy us ice-cream, so we loved visiting them. He was in the artillery in WW1 (a bit old but they took him). He had artillery casings all through the house (I think the casings were WW2 vintage, not sure how he got them, probably a younger army buddy). I wish I had asked him about his service but I was too young to know much.
An uncle of a grandmother was born in 1875 and I do have memories of him, and my great aunt. They would buy us ice-cream, so we loved visiting them. He was in the artillery in WW1 (a bit old but they took him). He had artillery casings all through the house (I think the casings were WW2 vintage, not sure how he got them, probably a younger army buddy). I wish I had asked him about his service but I was too young to know much.
Posted on 6/8/25 at 1:05 pm to UFFan
When i was little my grandparents grandparents were still alive. I don't remember them well but they were born in the 1890s. My Great granparents i do remember well were born in 1908, 1910.
Now i only have one grandparent left. My moms dad born 1939.
Now i only have one grandparent left. My moms dad born 1939.
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