When Did the Last Surviving T206 Subject Pass Away?

[gregndodgers]

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!

[pclpads]

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.

[packs]

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.

[piecesofthegame]

Originally Posted by packs

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.

This is simply mind-blowing!

[Peter_Spaeth]

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.

[akleinb611]

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!

Alan

[toppcat]

1952 Topps is down to less than a nickel pack's contents:

Bobby Shantz (99)
Tommie Brown (97)
Bob Ross (96)
Vern Law (94)

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

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.

I've told people about that John Tyler fact for years because it's crazy to think someone alive now has a grandfather born in 1790. There's also a grandson (edited to add a granddaughter is also alive) of Grover Cleveland alive. Cleveland was born in 1837, so that's a big difference from John Tyler, but the grandson is 24 years younger than Tyler's grandson, so that cuts away some of that difference.

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.

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by gregndodgers

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!

Also quite possibly the last living grandson of a Confederate Congressman.