RIP to President John Tyler's grandson

[dorndawg]

Born in 1790 just a few months after George Washington took office, John Tyler was America’s 10th president, serving from 1841-1845. Harrison Ruffin Tyler, Tyler’s last living grandson, died this past weekend at the age of 96.

Time is bonkers

 

[dawgstudent]

That's crazy.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

All kidding aside we all respect & wish for that man's virility.

 

[John Deaux VII]

All kidding aside we all respect & wish for that man's virility.

This is a sad fact, but I can probably quote at the most 2 or 3 bible verses in full from memory.

I can probably quote this entire movie word for word....

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

This is a sad fact, but I can probably quote at the most 2 or 3 bible verses in full from memory.

I can probably quote this entire movie word for word....

My wife walks out of the room if it’s on TV because I’ll sit and quote the entire movie.

 

[HailStout]

My wife walks out of the room if it’s on TV because I’ll sit and quote the entire movie.

Have you tried telling her that you will be her huckleberry?

 

[She Mate Me]

Born in 1790 just a few months after George Washington took office, John Tyler was America’s 10th president, serving from 1841-1845. Harrison Ruffin Tyler, Tyler’s last living grandson, died this past weekend at the age of 96.

Time is bonkers

You started this, so bear with me.

What's probably more bonkers than time is the Tyler family's penchant for having lots of kids, and at very advanced ages.

This grandson's father was born to the former president in 1853. John Tyler the Prez was 63 at the time.

Harrison Tyler, the presidential grandson in question, was born to John Tyler the Prez's 13th child, Lyon Tyler, in 1928. Lyon Tyler (who shoulda been called Old Frisky) was 75 when Harrison was born.

That means that Harrison's Old-Grandad John Tyler the Prez had been dead for about 66 years when our recently departed grandson was born in 1928. There ya go. Stranger than fiction.

 

[Barkman Turner Overdrive]

This story reminds me of how just a few years ago the United States made its final survivor benefit payment to the last Civil War veteran’s widow.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Battling a toddler now, so can't look it up, but Google Germany's last payment from the Treaty of Versailles.

ETA: 10-3-2010. 8 years, 1 month, & 8 days shy of a century since The Great War ceased fire.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

My wife walks out of the room if it’s on TV because I’ll sit and quote the entire movie.

"Darlin', it appears we must redefine the nature of our association..."

 

[GloryDawg]

I know a guy right now who's grand dad was born a slave. This guy is my age. His granddad was born in 1862. His dad was born was born in 1920. Both his dad and granddad were hitting it when they were older.

 

[Herbert Nenninger]

We are on a DC trip right now. We’ve been to multiple museums. We had a detailed tour of the capital. And just this afternoon, we toured the president section of the American History Museum.
…And yet, I just learned this fact via a Mississippi State sports message board.
My wife finds that fascinating.

 

[The Peeper]

My wife walks out of the room if it’s on TV because I’ll sit and quote the entire movie.

My wife is the same way if she sees me watching Andy Griffith or M°A°S°H because I sit there and say the lines before they do

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

My wife is the same way if she sees me watching Andy Griffith or M°A°S°H because I sit there and say the lines before they do

I can about do it with MASH too

 

[mcdawg22]

You started this, so bear with me.

What's probably more bonkers than time is the Tyler family's penchant for having lots of kids, and at very advanced ages.

This grandson's father was born to the former president in 1853. John Tyler the Prez was 63 at the time.

Harrison Tyler, the presidential grandson in question, was born to John Tyler the Prez's 13th child, Lyon Tyler, in 1928. Lyon Tyler (who shoulda been called Old Frisky) was 75 when Harrison was born.

That means that Harrison's Old-Grandad John Tyler the Prez had been dead for about 66 years when our recently departed grandson was born in 1928. There ya go. Stranger than fiction.

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I got all of my Tippacanoe and Tyler too knowledge from a Parks and Rec episode.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Lyon Tyler (who shoulda been called Old Frisky) was 75 when Harrison was born.

That means that Harrison's Old-Grandad John Tyler the Prez had been dead for about 66 years when our recently departed grandson was born in 1928. There ya go. Stranger than fiction.

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That means Lyon may not be the baby daddy as well.

 

[She Mate Me]

That means Lyon may not be the baby daddy as well.

You thinking the grandson du jour shoulda had the last name Johnson??

 

[John Deaux VII]

My wife is the same way if she sees me watching Andy Griffith or M°A°S°H because I sit there and say the lines before they do

I have probably seen each episode of the Andy Griffith Show 100 times, but every time I watch one again its just as funny as it was the first time I saw it.

 

[The Peeper]

I have probably seen each episode of the Andy Griffith Show 100 times, but every time I watch one again its just as funny as it was the first time I saw it.

Same here. If I read a book, I'll never ever read it again, but, I've watched each episode of Andy and also MASH soooooooo many times. I've been watching Andy since I was a little kid (in my 60s now). Been watching MASH since Spring of '82 when I came to MSU. My suitemates in Suttle got me hooked, we would watch it at 6:00 p.m. and as soon as it was over we'd trudge up the hill to The Perry for dinner.