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Re: Your oldest grandparent… [Re: beaverpeeler] #8607967
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My dad Eric Mervin Barnhurst was born 2/5/1906. His dad Jens Christian Barnhurst was born 8/18/1865 in Circleville Utah.


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Re: Your oldest grandparent… [Re: beaverpeeler] #8607977
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That’s amazing Dan!


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Re: Your oldest grandparent… [Re: beaverpeeler] #8607982
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Keith, my grandfather Fred Sodergren was born May 22, 1880 in or near Kewanee, Illinois and moved as a child to Mitchell, SD. He died in 1942 in Graham, Washington.

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Re: Your oldest grandparent… [Re: Larry Baer] #8607984
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Originally Posted by Larry Baer
My Grandpa was born the year Geronimo got captured, 1885. He had some great stories. Died in 1987 @ 102.
My grandpa was 45 when my dad was born. My dad was 45 when I was born. I'm 59 and have a 3 year old, 2 year old and one 7 months old. Hope I pass on some wisdom I didn't have when I was young.

This is my great grandpa about 1910 in Loysville PA. He caught these rats on Sherman's Creek. He was born in 1860. I still shoot his shotgun that is in this picture. He didn't have waders to get these rats. Wish I had some of his traps.


so you were like 50 and got yourself a 30 year old wife?

good for you

I thought it would be weird to date women 20 years younger since my kids are that age.

my parents were 46 when my oldest was born , my grandparents were 46 when I was born


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Re: Your oldest grandparent… [Re: beaverpeeler] #8607985
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Green, my parents were both 47 when I was born… the last of six.


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Re: Your oldest grandparent… [Re: beaverpeeler] #8607987
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My grandpa, William Blake Staton was born 11/27/1899

Re: Your oldest grandparent… [Re: beaverpeeler] #8607991
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Grandparents on my fathers side.
Their wedding pics around 1910 or so.
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Re: Your oldest grandparent… [Re: beaverpeeler] #8607993
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My grandpa was born in 1901 in Indian territory, later known as Oklahoma, according to his birth certificate.

Re: Your oldest grandparent… [Re: beaverpeeler] #8607997
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Does it have to be a grandparent? I’ve got an “autograph book” from a great aunt (maybe great great aunt?) that is dated 1865, and that is when she was a young adult. Not quite sure what year she was born.

All 4 of my grandparents (now deceased) were born in the late 1800s. Those of you with grandparents born in the 1920s are just youngsters! My parents were born earlier than that! LOL


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Re: Your oldest grandparent… [Re: beaverpeeler] #8607998
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My maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather were both born in 1874.
That's two years before the Custer Battle of the Little Big Horn.

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