President John Tyler has two living grandsons (Indian, family tree, free)

[STLCardsBlues1989]

I found this on Mental Floss's Twitter and had to look it up.

Here's John Tyler's family tree
Genealogy of John Tyler at Sherwood Forest Plantation - Home of President John Tyler

John Tyler was 63 when his son Lyon was born. Lyon was 71 and 75 when his last two sons were born (he had a son when he was 78, but that son died in infancy). Those two sons, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. (born 1924) and Harrison Ruffin Tyler (born 1928) are still alive apparently.

I just thought that was pretty interesting. It's strange the stories that genealogy can tell.

[Gnutella]

Dam.

[bjh]

^
Not sure what that has to do with an embankment.

But that is cool to know. I remember visting an elderly relative many years ago and thinking that her dad, my ggf was born in the 1860s!

[AnnieA]

Mine is a similar tale. I am almost 70 years old. My father and grandfather married close to middle age. My great grandfather (paternal) was born in 1814 and my father knew him. My gggrandfather was born in probably mid to a little later 17oo's...when records were more scarce and it is a brick wall. We know the gggrandfather was born in NC, went to KENtucky then into GA by 1810 but where in NC and Kentucky.......? With one of the most common surnames, it is a needle in a haystack......

[BuffaloTransplant]

Not really that odd if you are the youngest of the youngest in a big family or if there are multiple marriages of older men with younger wives ( quite common in the past when women died in childbirth)..... you have longer generational gaps. I cannot claim all the longevity as the ones cited, but I understand it... My maternal g-grandfather was born in 1822; he had 3 wives and my grandmother was the youngest child when he was 58. She had her youngest child (my mother) at 36. My mother had me at 35. It wasn't much different on my Dad's side: My great grandfather was born 1838, my grandmother in 1878, my Dad ( her youngest) in 1916; I was born when he was 35. My husband's family is much the same: he has 4 3rd g-grandparents who were born in the 1770s-1790s; their fathers (4th g-grands) were born as far as 50 years before and 1 was fighting in the French and Indian War and 3 in the Revolutionary War. [All of those are documented; I didn't bother with ones I have no provable dates for]

[nei]

Harrison Tyler owns his grandfather's old plantation:

Sherwood Forest Plantation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

from wikipedia:

Harrison Tyler is a retired businessman who owns his grandfather's Sherwood Forest Plantation in Charles City, Virginia and oversees its charitable foundation. In January 2012, he denounced Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich as a “big jerk,” citing his discomfiture with Gingrich's three marriages. Harrison told Politico that his older brother Lyon, Jr., lives in Franklin, Tennessee.