John Tyler was born in 1790, during George Washington’s first term as the first President of the United States. Tyler would later become the 10th President of the United States, from 1841-1845. He was originally elected vice president to William Henry Harrison, who, as The Simpsons song goes, died in 30 days. (Technically it was 32). After Tyler’s first wife died early in his presidency, he married a 24-year old a few months later. Tyler himself was 54. (You can imagine just how that would fly in today’s media.) Tyler would father seven children off his second wife, including Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who was born in 1853. Lyon Tyler became a noted educator and historian, but his wife died in 1921. And, like his father, he would, late in life, take a young woman as his second wife. She bore him three children, including Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., and Harrison Ruffin Tyler, both of whom are still alive today.
So, the grandsons of the 10th President of the United States, who was born in the 18th Century, before the Napoleonic Wars and when George Washington was president, are alive, today, in the 21st Century.
Crazy.
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