DID you ever personally know anyone born in the 1800's ?

[rondog]

I know my paternal grandpa was born in 1899, my grandma was born probably 1896-1897. Had them around until the 1980's. Don't have any cool stories though.

[Mtn.man]

I also was given handgund from my greatgrandpaws who were both LEO's.
One, a retirement S&W nickle plated .38 special K frame with a 1" barrel. Given to the officers upon retirement never issued or made for public.
He was a motorcycle cop in Macon GA. Wore the funny pants and rode a Harley, got pics of him on that old bike. He taught me how to shoot crows and boil p-nuts, and catch catfish. BD roughly 1888

My other greatgrandpaw was a cop and later a detective in all places Chicago. He retired to Tampa where we lived later and I only got to know him a little while befroe he passed. But he left his Colt Police Positive to my Dad who passed it on to me. It has the Chicago emblem and his name and time of issue to him. BD approx 1880

[Bailey Guns]

My great grandmother, Sarah, was born in 1879. She was born and lived in the same house in northern Alabama her entire life. The house never had indoor plumbing until my dad and I installed a sink in the kitchen in 1973 while other family members connected it somehow to the water supply (a well). She was 94 then and that was the last time I saw her. She died, at home, while I was in Japan in 1980 or 81. I heard from relatives the last thing she did was cook breakfast at about 0400 just like she'd done practically every morning of her adult life. Her biscuits were the stuff of legend. Everything she cooked she cooked in bacon fat.

Grandfathers and great-grandfathers all passed before I was born or old enough to meet and/or remember them.

[sniper7]

My great grandmother was born in Germany sometime in the late 1800s. Came over from Germany after ww1. On my dad's side my great grandmother was a Cherokee Indian I believe was born 1898.

[rockhound]

you youngsters wont

all of us old guys will have known someone, My great Grandmother died in 1998, she was born in 1897

[Katastrophic]

My great aunt was born in 1899 and died in 2003. She was an amazing woman. Her memory was sharp until the end and to be able to listen to her stories of growing up on the Colorado prairie was an amazing gift.

I wish I had thought to ask her what her favorite inventions were...

[streetglideok]

My great-grandmother was born in 1888 in Missouri. She actually crossed part of the state as a child in a covered wagon. Another relative on my mother's side, went by "aunt dolly", was my mother's great aunt. I believe her to have been born before 1900, but not by much. Those are the two relatives that were living in my lifetime. Now my oldest sister was around when all my great grandparents were alive, and all of them were pre-1900.

[gnihcraes]

My Great Grandmother - 1893-1991 = 98.

Knew her for about 22 years. Awesome lady.

Somewhere there is a photo of her and grand grandfather in a Model A here in Colorado on a "Trip", that must have been a heck of a trip back then.

Photo of her on the right - 76 years old riding a bike around town with a friend.

[Dlesh123]

All my grandparents born before 1900. Their siblings, my great aunts and uncles. One great grandfather.

[Hummer]

I knew my great grandmother, born in the 1870's, died in the mid 1960's. She was a Daughter of the American Revolution, as a descendent.

All my grandparents were born in the 1800's. My paternal grandfather emigrated to the USA on a ship from Holland with his parents and sister. He met Thomas Edison as a kid and was inspired to become an electrical engineer. He built a battery factory supplying windmill powered farm light batteries to farms across the mid west before rural electric lines were extended.

Two of his sons, my uncles, earned their PhD's in physics, both worked on the Manhattan Project, one at Los Alamos, the other at the Univ. of Chicago. One designed the first IBM supercomputer and continued working on the "big brother computer" into his 80's. Both are still living in their '90's.

I'm not that old but I have met Roy Rogers, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon.