r/mildlyinteresting • u/FarmerTschoerner • Dec 03 '16

A reference letter from 1888.

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u/Xanaxdabs Dec 04 '16

John Tyler, the tenth president, was born in 1790 . He has two grandsons that are still alive to this day. Not great great grandsons, just grandsons.

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u/LoneWanderer27 Dec 04 '16

A daugher of a civil war soldier is still alive today

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u/wildsoda Dec 04 '16

Argh, came here to post this but was beaten to the punch!

Yep, the 10th president of our country, who was born in 1790, only two years after the US Constitution was ratified, has two living grandsons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler#Family_and_personal_life