"Y'all got a problem with that, boy?" .... Senator Strom Thurmond, circa 1978
Posted on 03/12/2009 8:47:00 AM PDT by Edit35
As a boy, Harrison Tyler never gave much thought to his grandfather, John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States. "I grew up during World War II," he told Subaru Drive Magazine in 2002, "and surviving the war and the shortages was what was on everybody's mind. Being related to a president was never a thought."
Such a view may seem astonishing, but President Tyler died in 1862, 66 years before his grandson was born. In fact, Harrison Tyler's father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853 and died in 1935, so there were very few first-hand accounts of the president to inspire Harrison.
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Quite incredible - especially to me, an amateur genealogist. President Tyler was born in 1790, his son in 1853 when he was 63, and the son’s son in 1928 when he was 75. Most folks become grandparents in their 50’s or 60’s, with the last grandkid born before they are 85 or so. This grandchild was born 148 years after his grandfather! Heck, I thought it unusual that my grandfather would have been 89 when my youngest cousin was born a few years ago - but that pales in comparison to this.
He’s now 80 or 81 - I wonder if he’s fathered any kids of late?
BTW, President Tyler is the only President with whom I share a birthday, so I’ve always been a bit more interested in him.
"Y'all got a problem with that, boy?" .... Senator Strom Thurmond, circa 1978
“Do the math. This grandson must be older than dirt, or his old man is the poster boy for some forgoten natural organic viagra!”
And you are an ass.
P.S.
Forgive me. I meant to say you are “a DISPICABLE ass.”
I think its great!
He’s working. Like he oughta be. What he’s supposed to be lying around going my ancestor was President?
Whats your problem gramps? Sticker wont peck up?
Given this proclivity, I'm surprised there aren't a lot of NFL players named after him.
Not to argue with your grandmother’s story, but John Morton died on his farm in Chester, PA (a suburb of Philadelphia today) in April 1777 of tuberculosis. He was the first signer to die. He left the farm and a few slaves to his wife and children, who were forced to flee to New Jersey when the British captured Philadelphia that fall.
“Whats your problem gramps? Sticker wont peck up?”
Please explain in explicit detail what that phrase means. I live in Panama and have no knowledge of the meaning of that phrase.
I am waiting.
I think its great!
It seems that, back in those days, Senator Bob Dole was having .... ummm .... "problems" in a certain department relating to married life. So, he went to his friend, the much older Senator Thurmond, for advice.
"It all has to do with circulation!", said Senator Thurmond. "Ya got to get the blood circulating down there. So, before I get into bed, I drop down and give the old boy fifty, just like back in boot camp. And I count 'em out real fast 'One! Two! Three' Four!....' When I get to fifty, I'm ready to go!"
So, next Friday night, Bob Dole came home after some late night Senate business, got ready for bed, turned off the lights, dropped down on the floor and started started counting out real fast, "One! Two! Three' Four!....
Mrs. Dole then sat up in bed and whispered into the darkness, "Strom? Is that you, Strom?"
The calander can do strange things to family lines. My grandmother made horse collars for the Confederate Army and my grandfathers brother my grand uncle?...fought for the Confederacy and was captured at the Battle of Vicksburg. I am 72.
P.S.
Should you send me your reply by FReep mail, you need not worry. I will share it with everybody else. I know there are a lot of folks who will want to know your reply; and therefore, I will put it on the public FR ping list.
He was also the first president born after the adoption of the Constitution and the only president to participate in rebellion against the U.S. - he was elected to the confederate congress but died before he could be sworn in.
Just the fact that you live in Panama is proof enough that you have no knowledge. Not much else needs be added.
Hows your skeeter problem?
Lyon Gardiner Tyler was the youngest child and was also married twice and had six children. He had been President of the College of William and Mary. He was also a notorious lost causer, the author of A Confederate Catechism.
It's good that the grandson was able to achieve something with his life. Both the Tylers and the Gardiners (who held a patent from Charles I for Gardiner's Island off Long Island) were old families who had some difficulties adapting to today's world.
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Assuming ‘51 in the picture means that he was a member of the class of 1951, I would imagine he’s at least in his 80s.
“Hows your skeeter problem?”
What is a “skeeter Probblem?” We in Panama do not know what that means.
Please share with all of us...you coward.
sorry about that I guess i had the story wrong all these years, I guess she was tracing back how she ended up in Ohio the daughter of a steam powered riverboat pilot and I got the story fuzzed up..
grandma died when I was young she was in her late ninetys I believe. Dont know how I got it that mixed up,
well that made my day, finding out what i thought I knew turned out to be a lie, dammit
well it doesn't matter anyway my whole family is gone now, no one to even left to ask about it
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