A thread for the older users of the forum to share any memories of 1800's born relatives, loved ones, or even celebrities.

We lost the last living 1800's baby, Emma Morano about a year ago.  :\'(

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/04/15/worlds-oldest-person-last-known-born-1800s-dies/100501238/

I have a great grandfather i met in 2015 during a road trip who was like 96 born in the 1900s (decade)

I have a great grandfather i met in 2015 during a road trip who was like 96 born in the 1900s (decade)

What you said implies your great grandfather was born in 1996???
WHAT!?!?!?
Did you mean 1906?

What you said implies your great grandfather was born in 1996???
???WHAT!?!?!?
Did you mean 1896 or 1906?

No  ;D I meant he was 96,BORN in the 1900s I forgot to to put a comma between 96 and born and no he's not a 1896,1996 or 1906 born he was possibly born between 1907 or 1908 but probably 1908

Oldest person I know was my grandad born 1919.

There was another thread where LyricBoy talked about his grandparents born in the 1800s. It was pretty interesting.

I remember when I was in elementary school in 2007, our grade went to the nursing home to celebrate a lady's 114th birthday, which means she would've been born in 1893. :o

Also, wouldn't 114 be pretty close to one of the oldest (verified at least) people to live ever? I remember thinking back on this like there's no way she could've actually been 114, could she? I skimmed through Wikipeida's top 100 verified oldest women and didn't see anyone born 1893 from the US, the oldest woman lived to 122 and the 100th oldest lived to 114 years, 85 days.

Nope.

The oldest people I know personally are my grandparents who were born in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Only one of them is still living though :\'(.

No,I don't know anyone born in The 1800's but the last person I knew was my grandmother who lived to 100 years old and she had passed away in January of natural causes.  :\'(

My great-grandfather & my great-grandmother were both born in 1883 (in Russia). I remember going to their 60th anniversary. He died in 1970 & she died in 1971.


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The oldest person that I used to know was my neighbor Louise, who was probably about in her late 70s or 80s when she died in 2008.

The oldest person I know just turned a 100 about 2 months ago at my church. It's crazy because she was preaching sermons in her 90s.

The oldest person I know just turned a 100 about 2 months ago at my church. It's crazy because she was preaching sermons in her 90s.

Wow so she was born in 1918? She will defintely feel really old around 2018 borns.

My paternal grandfather was likely born in the late 1800's - I barely remember him, as he passed away when I was 7.  (I have to dig through some records to find out exactly when he was born.)

My maternal great-grandmother was also probably born in the late 1800's - as with my grandfather, she passed away when I was 8 so my memories of her are faint - but fond.

That's about all I can come up with.

The oldest person I knew was a great uncle born in 1918.

He died in 2012 at the age of 94.

I would have to check the family tree to be sure of the exact dates.  I recall meeting one of my great grandmas in the early 1970s, and she was in her 90s.  She would have been born in the 1870s or 80s. I do not remember very much as I was only aged about 4.  She lived some distance from us so we didn't visit all that often.

My other great grandma must also have been born in the 1800s.  She was 96 I believe when she died and that was in 1983 I think.  I can remember her a bit more as she lived in a village near us. I can recall her house and that she came to us for Christmas dinner one year.  I also visited her a couple of times when she moved into an old peoples home.

My fiances grandfather was born in 1914 i met him a few weeks ago, still has a pretty good memory.. his dad was born in 1882 i think.

My grandfather back home was born in 1917 but he passed away a few years back, my dad, aunts & uncles were close with their grandparents who were born in 1884 & 1886

I know that my maternal grand mother was born in 1881 and died at 97.  She lived in the town in Puerto Rico (Guanica) where the US forces landed in 1898, and witnessed the landing.  The story is quite fascinating. Her husband was even older.  I suspect that my paternal grand parents were also born in the 1800

I never personally met anyone born in the 1800s, but I knew my maternal grandpa born 1921 and my paternal great grandpa and great grandma born 1911 and 1912 who had parents born In the 1800s.

Yes.  My paternal grandmother was born in 1876.  She died in 1971 when I was almost 5.  My paternal grandfather was born around 1853 (nobody seems to know the exact date or even the year), but he died long before I was born.  I think he died during or a little after WWII.  He arrived in Hawaii in 1869 when it was still a kingdom under the rule of Kamehameha V.  My father was born in 1916 but I believe some of his approximately dozen siblings were born in the 1800s.  My maternal grandfather was born in 1894 and died in 1983.  My maternal grandmother was born about a dozen years later and she died in 1994.

At the time I was born, it was not that unusual to meet people born in the 19th century.  A number of famous people born in the 19th century were still alive, including Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, Omar Bradley, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Claude Rains, Edward G Robinson, James Cagney, Boris Karloff, Spencer Tracy, George Burns, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Pu Yi, Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling, Margaret Chase Smith, Pope Paul VI, J Edgar Hoover, J Robert Oppenheimer, Louis de Broglie, Jiddu Krishnamurti, AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Pablo Picasso, Juan Trippe, Carl Orff, Aaron Copeland, EM Forster, Agatha Christie, Helen Keller, Georgia O'Keeffe, to name a few.

Yes.  My paternal grandmother was born in 1876.  She died in 1971 when I was almost 5.  My paternal grandfather was born around 1853 (nobody seems to know the exact date or even the year), but he died long before I was born.  I think he died during or a little after WWII.  He arrived in Hawaii in 1869 when it was still a kingdom under the rule of Kamehameha V.  My father was born in 1916 but I believe some of his approximately dozen siblings were born in the 1800s.  My maternal grandfather was born in 1894 and died in 1983.  My maternal grandmother was born about a dozen years later and she died in 1994.

At the time I was born, it was not that unusual to meet people born in the 19th century.  A number of famous people born in the 19th century were still alive, including Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, Omar Bradley, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Claude Rains, Edward G Robinson, James Cagney, Boris Karloff, Spencer Tracy, George Burns, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Pu Yi, Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling, Margaret Chase Smith, Pope Paul VI, J Edgar Hoover, J Robert Oppenheimer, Louis de Broglie, Jiddu Krishnamurti, AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Pablo Picasso, Juan Trippe, Carl Orff, Aaron Copeland, EM Forster, Agatha Christie, Helen Keller, Georgia O'Keeffe, to name a few.

My mom as a child in the 1960s had a few teachers who were born around the late 1890s and early 1900s. I bet that most of the 1890s borns were retired by 1970. By the year 1993 those who were still around  were ages 93 and up and the early 1890s borns would have been centenarians. In the senior citizen group they were I bet a minority and the seniors born in the 1910s and 1920s were in the majority

So would you guys be interested in my grandmother's account of the US invasion of Puerto Rico?

So would you guys be interested in my grandmother's account of the US invasion of Puerto Rico?


Story time!

So would you guys be interested in my grandmother's account of the US invasion of Puerto Rico?

Yes.

My great grand father was born in 1892 and died in 1992.

My great grand father was born in 1892 and died in 1992.


Did he have a long illness? ???

Ok guys here's the story:

On July 25, 1898 my 17 year old grandmother was doing whatever when the church bell rang and all the townspeople, no more than 750 people, gathered in the plaza and were met by the few Spanish soldier who maned the lookout post.  Guanica is a town that sits in a valley between to mountain spurs that run down to the Caribbean (google it), with a good harbor.  The troopers told the people that the gringos were coming and that the women and children to run into the hills and hide, and the men to converge on the "malecon" while they went to the nearest town for muskets and reinforcement.  When they returned they found that the men had run into the hills and were hiding and the women and kids were congregating on the beaches waving white handkerchiefs at the Yankees who were rowing ashore.  The troops fired their muskets in the air, thew them down, and themselves ran away to hide.

Post script 1:  While in the National Archives doing other research I looked up General Miles report of the invasion.  He wrote something like "We overcame stiff resistance on the beaches of Guanica and the town is ours.  Casualties include 2 broken ankles, and one concussion.  There were no fatalities".  Stiff resistance?  Really?  I guess the women and kids just wouldn't get out of the way.

Post script 2:  To this day the town celebrates July 25 as a local holiday,  with dancing in the town plaza, fire works, and of course speaches by local dignitaries.

Post script 3:  It was at just such a celebration that my parents met, Dad being stationed at the Guanica light house (google it), and like any sailor, always ready to party

Ok guys here's the story:

On July 25, 1898 my 17 year old grandmother was doing whatever when the church bell rang and all the townspeople, no more than 750 people, gathered in the plaza and were met by the few Spanish soldier who maned the lookout post.  Guanica is a town that sits in a valley between to mountain spurs that run down to the Caribbean (google it), with a good harbor.  The troopers told the people that the gringos were coming and that the women and children to run into the hills and hide, and the men to converge on the "malecon" while they went to the nearest town for muskets and reinforcement.  When they returned they found that the men had run into the hills and were hiding and the women and kids were congregating on the beaches waving white handkerchiefs at the Yankees who were rowing ashore.  The troops fired their muskets in the air, thew them down, and themselves ran away to hide.

Post script 1:  While in the National Archives doing other research I looked up General Miles report of the invasion.  He wrote something like "We overcame stiff resistance on the beaches of Guanica and the town is ours.  Casualties include 2 broken ankles, and one concussion.  There were no fatalities".  Stiff resistance?  Really?  I guess the women and kids just wouldn't get out of the way.

Post script 2:  To this day the town celebrates July 25 as a local holiday,  with dancing in the town plaza, fire works, and of course speaches by local dignitaries.

Post script 3:  It was at just such a celebration that my parents met, Dad being stationed at the Guanica light house (google it), and like any sailor, always ready to party



Where the invasion took place: 

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2612/4075154631_d59a16f492.jpg



Cat

Where the invasion took place: 

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2612/4075154631_d59a16f492.jpg



Cat


The stone was placed by the Daughter of the American Revolution

My paternal grandparents. I don't remember much about them, we weren't really close, but they were both born in the 1890s. She died in 1969 & he died in 1978.

My paternal grandparents. I don't remember much about them, we weren't really close, but they were both born in the 1890s. She died in 1969 & he died in 1978.


What did they die from? ???

What did they die from? ???


My grandfather died from cirrhosis, he was an alcoholic. And my grandmother died suddenly of a brain aneurysm.

Not me, but my parents. When working in a nursing home in the early 70s he knew an old Cossack - a guy who proudly had fought in the Russian Civil War on the side of the Whites - funny, lively guy. He taught my father how to shave, said you Americans all shave the wrong way.

My mother knew to a small extent her great grandfathers. One was an Italian immigrant born in 1883. He was a big family man but like many men of that era valued male children more than females, I think. My grandfather had had three daughters in a row; my mother was expected to be a boy. When she was born my great grandfather said to my grandma, "What'sa-matter you, you only know to make girls?" He had grape vines and made his own wine in gallon jugs which we still have. He also grew tomatoes. One summer day, my aunts were picking the tomatoes and handing them to each other. He shouted, shaking his cane, "I'ma gonna get you!" at them. He didn't mean it of course - just a playful threat. His son, my grandfather, was a bad gambler, so my grandparents often had money problems. My great grandpa would hand my grandmother money on the sly and say "take-a this, go buy your daughters clothes and shoes." He wanted to disinherit my grandfather, feeling my grandfather would gamble away any inheritance he got - but his eldest son, Giovanni, encouraged him to keep my grandpa in the will, saying "Poppa, you're only gonna hurt his children if you do that." He relented. He could never hurt his grandkids.

My Irish great grandfather was a complex man. Born in 1888 here in NYC. Had his first job at age 12. He despised Irish "from the other side." He also despised Italians, who he called "inside out n-gers." He was a drunkard, but also a respectable businessman who owned a bar and also owned a fleet of chauffer cars. He refused to pay for my grandmother's marriage to my grandpa because she was marrying an Italian. He told her "if this was the old neighborhood, you would've gotten a beating" for being with an Italian. He was also very religiously pious. He wouldn't allow my grandmother to see a Sunday matinee unless she had been to Church first. He insisted my grandmother be "Churched" (an old Catholic blessing) after the birth of each of her children. He was a mean man in a lot of ways, gentle in others, but scary looking. A wiry, tough old Irishman who I honestly wouldn't wanna meet in a dark alley.

My Irish grand-grandfather with my grandma, June 1963
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My Great-Uncle was born in 1898.  He died when he was 92.

I did actually meet one person I know for sure was born prior to 1900. Most likely 1899, because he was 90 in 1989.

My grandparents were born  during the 1890s and told
Me stories from WW1 and before .

My great grandparents were born in the 1800s...I never met them. My grandparents were born in the 1920s and 30s, and my mother was born in 1957. My dad in 1958.

My Grandparents were born In The early 1910's but I'm pretty sure our family might have some ancestors born In The 1800's.

My Grandparents were born In The early 1910's but I'm pretty sure  our family might have some ancestors born In The 1800's.
My grandparents were born around the same time as you, and I never got to meet my great-grandparents.

My grandparents were born around the same time as you, and I never got to meet my great-grandparents.

My Grandfather died in 1989 at the age of 77 and My Grandmother died at the age of 100 in 2017.

My grandparents were born around the same time as you, and I never got to meet my great-grandparents.

I did get to meet one of my great-grandparents, namely my mother's mother's mother. She was the youngest of my great-grandparents, and the only one born in the 20th century...but not the only one born in the 1900s, because my father's mother's mother (who was also alive at the time I was born, but I never met her, because she lived out of state, and passed away a year after I was born) was born in the year 1900. (My other six great-grandparents were all born in the 1800s, and they all passed away before I was born; in fact, two of them passed away before either of my parents were born.)

The oldest person I've known was my great-grandmother who was born in 1914. I have met a few other relatives who were born in the 1910s, and several who were born in the 1920s. It's definitely possible that I may have seen someone when I was a baby who was born in the 1800s, but not very likely because they would have been at least almost 100 years old.

I did get to meet one of my great-grandparents, namely my mother's mother's mother. She was the youngest of my great-grandparents, and the only one born in the 20th century...but not the only one born in the 1900s, because my father's mother's mother (who was also alive at the time I was born, but I never met her, because she lived out of state, and passed away a year after I was born) was born in the year 1900. (My other six great-grandparents were all born in the 1800s, and they all passed away before I was born; in fact, two of them passed away before either of my parents were born.)


My Great Grandfather died a year before I was born so I never got a chance to see him, it's a shame. :(

My Great Grandfather died a year before I was born so I never got a chance to see him, it's a shame. :(

All of my great-grandfathers passed away before I was born so I didn't get to see any of them. However, one such man did get to see a few of his great-grandchildren (namely a few of my second-cousins who were born before 1976, the year he died).