Bertie Harris passed away in 1970. Delia Harris passed away in 1968. Another fun fact: their grandmother lived to see both revolutionary war and civil war
@@bigskygemsmontana9464 And that's the way I like to measure time. Puts things in perspective. Trends and fads come and go in a lifetime. The War of Independence happened just over three of our lifetimes ago.
Carol Burnett, who is still alive today in 2022, spoke with someone whose immediate relative (of which a grandfather is one) fought in the Revolutionary War. Crazy to think about, but also a reminder of how young our country really is.
You say "our" as if only Americans can see this comment. Kind of cocky, eh? I don't know if cocky is even the right term for that, but I needed to form a question for the "eh" so you'd know. You know. Even though that didn't start here.
consider we are in the year 2000 AD. the peak of Rome was more or less around 1 AD and Egypt had its peak around 1500BC. The idea of "the usa" is such an infant and new concept compared to the whole of human civilization. And to think the progress we've made in this short amount of time is mind blowing.
As a kid in the 80s, i used to ride my bike to the nursing home to see my granddad. His roommate was a WWI vet born in 1892. This guy was very sharp, mentally. I sat for hours listening to this man tell me stories. He was around before cars, before flight. His father fought on the Civil War. He also told me the horrific stories of the battles he and his unit were in in France. I never forgot this guy. He made it to 101 years old. I went to his funeral in 1993. At the time i was in the Army - 82nd Airborne Division. One of the proudest moments in my life was standing in front of his flagged draped casket, in uniform with the Honor Guard and rendering the sharpest salute I've ever rendered. You are missed Mr. Harper!
We had a gentleman who was 97 when I was in High School named Carlie Hahn - from our Methodist church come to several thanksgiving and Christmas dinners - he had lived from before electric light till well past landing on the moon and the age of the micro computer- I asked him in frustration after many mundane events - Mr. Hahn , in this great expanse of history is there nothing truly remarkable you can tell us? He paused looking down and suddenly looked up with delight “well, my father voted for Abraham Lincoln.” 😮❤😂
My Great Grandmother was born in 1893 and passed in 1992. One of my cousins asked her the same question, knowing she had seen the coming of cars, airplanes and landing on the moon. He said Nannie, what’s the most amazing thing you’ve seen in your life? She responded “Butter in a squeeze bottle” 🤣 True story.
There is a video of a guy on RUclips who was alive when Lincoln was elected president and how the civil war started. Remastered video. It's about 18 minutes long. I think the interview was done in 1942 and the guy died in 1948.
My Granddad, born in 1909, told me about how he remembers meeting Civil War veterans in the 1930's. He also told me about how some of these veterans knew veterans of the Revolutionary War. Just a couple of handshakes away. Amazing really. I'm 56.
A grandson of John Tyler, (10th president of the United States, 1841-1845), is still alive!. His name is Harrison Tyler and he is 94 and in a nursing home. His brother, Lyon, died in 2020 at the age of 96. There are interviews of these two on RUclips.
I was born in 1981. I had a retired school teacher who substituted for the younger grades, and she was born in 1893. She was 93 when I first had her. In my first neighborhood, we had an elderly neighbor whose parents were former slaves. I knew people who, in turn, knew Civil War veterans. And, to top it off, I was close to my great-grandmother, who was born in 1897 and died in 2000. She still remembered going to her great-grandparents house and sitting on the lap of her great-great-grandmother...who was born in 1798 and died in 1901. So, I sat on the lap of a woman who lived to see the age of Playstation 2, and she sat on the lap of a woman who was born when Washington was still living. These people and events were not from a long time ago. We just don't live long enough to see how close it all really was.
All four of my grandparents were born in the 1890's. Except for my mom's mom, I wish I got to know the other three. The family history would have been amazing. My late mom and dad were born in 1923 and 1927 respectively, I sure do miss them. I was born in the 1960's.
My Great Grandmother was born in 1886 and I met her as she lived until 1984. Great Grandfather was born in 1877 & unfortunately wasn't able to see him. But I remember my Great Grandmother's funeral and being amazed that the Date of her birth began with 18 instead of 19. Lesson: while these folks are Still alive get the stories about life from them and record them. They(the ppl & the stories) are truly priceless.
My great grandfather was born in the 1895, and got to see the town where he lived, grow bigger before he died in 1980's. I was young when I meet him, but my mom has a picture of us together, and I remember a funny old man with whiskers that tickled. His own father was born in 1865.
My great grandfather was born 1891 and I saw him for the last time in 1984. You are so right about getting the stories. Both of my grandparents are gone now, and I used to live to listen to them tell of their childhoods.
My grandfather was born in 1897 in KY. They moved to TX in 1912. In 1980 we visited the house they moved to in 1912 and left in 1914. He could still draw a floor plan of it and describe each room. Grandparents are a gift to be treasured.
It must have been strange to fight in the American revolution and then experience the civil war. There is a book about 6 men that fought in the American revolution, they were very young. They all lived to be over 100. Before they died their photographs were taken and they told their stories about the war. One of them had spoken with Washington another had fought under Benedict Arnold. They all lived to see the civil war. I have photographs of my 4th great grandparents. They were born in the late 1700's. They were elderly when the pictures were taken. But l was so amazed that I was looking at people who were alive when Washington was still around.
Frankly, the American Revolution was also a kind of "civil war", as a lot of the colonists were against independence from the Crown; so much so there were numerous Loyalist Militias throughout the colonies, and several of them even joined the Regulars. That led to literally brother fighting against brother, neighbour against neighbour, father against son. In his farewell speech as President, Washington warned against both a bi-partisan political system, and the divide between the Northern and Southern states that could lead to war (the latter part might have been in one of his letters, I can't quite recall). But even in Colonial times, there was a notable divide between the Northern and Southern colonies, as the Northern colonies often disparaged the colonies and colonists down South and treated them with utter disdain and contempt, like how they often referred to Gen. Washington as nothing more than "a dirty pig farmer from Virginia".
I am 54... My great-grandfather fought in the Spanish-American War, and my great-great grandfather fought in the Civil War. His great-great grandfather (my 6th grandfather) fought in the Revolutionary War, at the Battles of Trenton and Brandywine. When my grandmother was a little girl she met veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg, and she met Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of President Abraham Lincoln... She passed when I was in my early 30's, so I really got to enjoy her stories. Our country is so young!
I am not trying to be rude at all but the USA is not young nation, at the time if it's inception there was no nation of Germany or Italy or Ireland, 3 of the nations many Amercian's say they are from.
I'm 73 years old, and, I had two Great -grandfathers who fought in the American Civil War. Not my Great -great-grandfathers. My GREAT -GRANDFATHERS. My paternal Grandfather was born in 1872, and, my maternal grandmother was born in 1879. My father was born in 1901, and, my mother was born in 1918.
@@adchancellor1380 I am one generation behind you... My grandmothers were born in 1913 and 1917, and my grandfathers were born in 1898 and 1917. My father was born in 1947 and he is 75, and my mother was born in 1945. She would be 77 now if she were alive.
I am a 41 years old Jamaican, my 5th great grand father was an officer of Great Britain and fought the Americans in the war if 1812. His brother was a veteran of Anglo-Dutch wars for the Caribbean and he became the Governor General of Antigua.
My ancestor Johann Warner Buck was a hessian soldier at the battle of Trenton … captured by Washington soldiers and became enamored by the American cause and escaped and became an American citizen !
I remember one of Bruce Catton 's stories in Waiting for the Morning Train about one of the last Revolutionary War soldiers being called to speak during a 4th of July celebration. He started by saying 'he remembered when we surrendered at Yorktown' only to get heckled 'hey old man you didn't surrender at Yorktown.' He starts again by saying about 'how we laid down our swords' only to get heckled again. Frustrated, he blurts out 'I should know; I was one of Cornwalli's Hessians!'
The grandfather had a son in 1818 when he was 52 years old. The son had two daughters in the early 1890s when he was in his early 70s. The daughters appeared on the show in 1961. They appear to be in their late 60s or early 70s. It all makes sense.
@@eldermillennial8330: Idiotic for 55+ males to have children. That’s the problem we have today in the U.S. with women having children in their 30’s. As a rule they’re premature or not with defects! Don’t cackle to me about future advances in medicine. This is the cause of zero birth rate here and in Europe. This is the reason we’re overrun by third worlders! What’s the cause of all of this democracy. It needs to be gotten rid of. Two centuries ago it was a good idea but it doesn’t work any more!
What was so fascinating about this time in which the show was aired was that all of the old people still living had been born sometime in the 1800s. If I had been a young man at that time I would’ve loved talking to older people and asking them about their experiences as a young person in the 1800s. It would’ve been fascinating.
60 years from now, people will probably say the same thing about you, and all the interesting old people you could have been talking to. Every retirement home is full of old people who would love to tell you about the interesting times they lived through. Nothing is stopping you.
Of course, it wasn't that interesting at the time, because ... ALL the old people had those stories. It's when they're gone that it becomes interesting, unfortunately. When I was little, every adult had memory of WW2, one of my neighbors served in WW1, and another neighbor came west in a covered wagon as a child. The old people had second-hand memories of the Civil War era, having heard about those times from their grandparents.
@@Will-tn8kq Yes we can talk to the older people today about the Times when they were younger. I just think it would’ve been fascinating to have talked to someone who had lived in the 1800s before automobiles planes telephones radios etc. it was such a different world. And yes I did hear stories from my grandparents who lived through the Depression World War II and so on.
@@tobystamps2920 I agree. I am just saying that the people who lived before smartphones, social media and the singularity will probably appear equally as fascinating to our future grandkids.
Not as much processed food back then as there is now. If you look at videos of older people back then, a lot of them were still very sharp and vigorous even in their 70's and 80's. Not everybody ate junk and fast food places were non-existent or there were very few.
I’ve always been fascinated by how few generations our American history actually spans. My own grandfather was born in 1873, 3 years before Custer’s last stand. His father fought in the Confederacy during the Civil War from NC. My grandpa Barker passed when I was very young, but I remember him well singing “John Brown’s body lies a moldering’ in the grave…” I didn’t know who John Brown was at that time, but my grandpa must’ve heard his dad singing it as a kid. Years later, I met my grandpa’s younger half brother, who showed me a bayonet his dad had brought back to NC from the war in 1865. He said they’d used it as a fireplace poker for years. He remembered how my great grandfather told of being in a battle in Virginia where most of his company was killed and he was captured. The were taken to a prison camp he called “Pint Lookout” and “turned loose” some months later. After some research, I verified my gr grandpa John Barker had been captured near Burkesville, Va on April 6, 1865 and imprisoned at Point Lookout, MD Union prison and released on June 23, 1865.
In 1989 I met a man whose father fought at Appomattox. He told me everyone always corrected him and said, you must mean your grandfather. But it was his father he explained his father had been born in 1850, and he had kids in his fifties. It made sense. The man was in his 90s at the time. He showed me his father’s sword
@Grassy Sands Lots of child soldiers in places like Africa. 15 year olds fought in WWII on the German and Russian side as Flak gunners, and, at the end for the Germans, 12 year olds attacking tanks with Panzerfaust. My youngest soldiers were 18 and all modern armies are made up of kids 18-21. The gear and armor may make them look older, but they are very much just kids even at 20. It is unfortunate that Hollywood always portrays soldiers with actors in their late 20s; it doesn't hammer home that we send kids to fight our wars. If people understood that more viscerally, we might fight fewer wars.
My late grandfather who died in 2021 aged 85 told me a story that was passed onto him by a family friend during WW2, the family friend’s great grandfather when a young boy met an old Jacobite Solider who had fought at the battle of Culloden in 1746 😳
This was not only a great story by these 2 lovely ladies, but this clip also contained a young Carol Burnette and one of my relatives, Bill Cullen. AMAZING!
It’s interesting that 200 years ago couples were not afraid of having large families. In an agrarian culture everyone had something to offer even at a young age. Child mortality rates were high but large families were considered a blessing. Comparatively today, child mortality rates are very low but having more than 2.5 children is considered irresponsible, while swimming in exorbitant wealth is considered a prudent.
@@itsok2bwhiteendanti-whiteh548 on the contrary, it’s religion, christianity in particular, where the origin of all this self-destruction comes from, mixed with self-destructive roman legalism. europeans would most benefit when they not only stop being christian, but stop drawing all their morality that has christian and jewish origins. look to any leftist movements, and you can find origins in christian morality (socialism, communism, etc).
Having large families is not uncommon, especially in the 1800s! Looking through my family history, there are several distant relatives, that had 11 children! There was about 20 years from the 1st child born, to the last one.
My great grandmom born in 1877 lived until I was in HS - died in 77 at 100. She had witnessed the reconstruction and her parents had all lived thru the civil war years. She had many tales to tell of the things her parents and grandparents told about the war, slavery, and of voting for Lincoln and his subsequent death.
1776 seems a long time ago, but to watch this brings a sharp perspective that it was not that long ago in the grand scheme of things. My mind is blown.
I love how Gary Moore held the chairs for both ladies as they sat down and how both ladies wore the mandatory white gloves which were so popular in the 1950s. I’m old enough to remember wearing white gloves when I was a child and I still keep a pair in a drawer to this day.
My great grandfather fought in the battle of Utoy Creek under General Johnston during the Battle of Atlanta during the Civil War. He had a Minnie Ball in his leg which he carried as his "badge of honor" to his grave.
Wow! and Wow! to you both. And my Great Great Uncle was a Union General during the Civil War. General Nathaniel Lyon. He was the first Union General to die in battle.
My great grandfather joined the Confederate Army in 1861, aged 15. He was in the army all 4 years, even spent 9 months in a northern prisoner of war camp. He survived, was never wounded, and died in 1923, when my mother was 5 years old.
@@marysterling691 Thank you. He's my favorite ancestor. My mother and older aunts remembered him, and as I was born when mother was nearly 40, I heard their reminiscences about him.
Love hearing these stories. My great grandfather x 11, Adam Eichelberger, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, Infantry 3rd Battalion of York County, Pennsylvania. The announcement of his promotion was signed by John Morton, a speaker of the Pennsylvania Provisional Assembly and is one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
I was born in 1995. I have memories of spending time with my great-great grandmother, who was born in 1898, and was 105 when she died in 2003. she lived with my great-grandmother who died in her late 90s. My grandmother is currently 83. I feel so blessed to have been able to interact with family members from generations long before mine.
Great story! I'm 58, got to know great grandfather (1883-1980) His life spanned horse&buggies to Rocket ships! His Dad was 51yrs when he was born- too old fight in Civil war& lived in Michigan when it was western frontier& Indian attacks were frequent
I’m in my 20’s before my Grandpa died I would ask him numerous questions about the past unfortunately I didn’t record it. I wish I could go in a nursing home and just record all the elderly.
You could though. They let you do that. Usually the old people are happy to have someone to talk to. It's considered a public service to go talk to them.
I bet there would be people in most nursing homes who would love to have a conversation with you. It's a very good idea. Now I'm considering doing the same thing. 👍🙂
I volunteered in a nursing home in 1978. I used to spend time with a woman who was born in 1888. She told the most interesting stories! I still miss her to this day. 😢 💗
Well I had ancestors that fought in the American revolution but they were 5th great grandfather's and uncle's. One of them even had a conversation with George Washington. I'll give him a shout out even though he's long dead, Samuel Ellis. But it's this kind of thing that really shows that the American revolution wasn't that long ago even though it feels like it.
@@nickirows My 5th ggf was on duty one day when Washington rode up right beside him on his horse. Washington pulled out his spyglass, He was looking at the movements of the British. He then with great familiarity handed the spyglass over to my 5 ggf and told him to take a look. Quite a conversation then occurred. I don't know the specifics of what was said, but I would assume it would have been in regards to the British.
Was there anything handed down as to how Washington spoke, the sound of his voice, mannerisms, etc.? Because there was no video or audio recording then, I'm wondering if people would've paid more attention to those things.
Well when you're younger, 200 years can seem like forever. But when you're older, 200 years doesn't seem like that long really. Just think, the nation was only 200 years old in 1976. I was born just a few years after that. The U.S. is pretty young when you think about it.
My maternal grandmother, born in 1890, got a celebratory 'hug' from an old man in 1897 at the street party celebrating Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. What was special about it? Well, he had been a drummer boy at the Battle of Waterloo in June of 1815, and had been badly wounded. He survived the night under a cannon limber, kept warm by his father, one of Wellington's soldiers. He asked my grandmother to 'pass it on to her children'. She did so, to her daughter, my mom, and I passed it on to my daughter when she was seven, and to her daughter when SHE was seven, and so it goes on....
My great great grandmother lived to 99 back in 08, 3 months before 100. Her husband my great great grandfather was born 2 years earlier, but had past before her. Married over 80 years. Life goals
I'm watching this in 2023 and this is one of the most entertaining things I've seen on Television or RUclips in a long time. Good, clean, amusing television with fascinating information
My Grandfather survived the Battle of the Muse-Argonne and lived an adventurous life and settled down and had my father at the age of 72 . My Father had me at the age 33. At 29 I am one of the youngest Grandchildren of a World War 1 veteran in the world .
I love this stuff. Herb Caen, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for many years, wrote in his column during the 1980s about a reader at that time whose grandfather had been born in 1776.
It's something else that people can still have children in their 60s and 70s. That's like Clint Eastwood for example, it's crazy to me that he's 92 I think, and his youngest child is 24. It's crazy how short some generational gaps are compared to others. There are people like these two sisters who never met their grandfather because of the gap in years between their generations, and there are others like myself that got to spend a good amount of time with my great-grandmother.
Imo, I feel better thinking about senior men having extremely young children, than men marrying/having sex with prey teens which wasn't really uncommon 125+ years ago. And in fact child marriage is still legal in many parts of America, with sicko Tennessee trying to enact a law that allows men (or I guess women too) the right to marry literally as young as they want. Its a "free pass & loophole" for paedophiles.😡😤
I knew my great grandparents until I turned 13, my grandparents are alive and very well, they are in their late sixties and im 23. hopefully i have another 23 years with them. Yeah very young family 😅
@@kurtfrancis4621 🤦♂️😂🤣 *Nope, I was correct,* Tennessee got caught attempting to pass a bill that eliminated age limit for marriage, that is, until public outcry forced them to amend it. 🤷♂️ Here, I'll post an article, from a *local Tennessee News station about the once proposed bill,* AND I'll even *BOLD* the *IMPORTANT* points for you, since you are incapable of doing a 30 second search and finding that *I was indeed correct.* 💀😂🤣😂 *"A bill proposal making its way through Tennessee legislature* that would establish a common-law marriage between “one man” and “one woman," *"Opponents of the bill say it would eliminate an age requirement, opening the door for a coverup of child sex abuse."* 😏 "The bill’s sponsor, Tom Leatherwood (R-Arlington) says the law being considered would add a new marriage option for Tennesseans. “So, all this bill does is give an alternative form of marriage for those pastors and other individuals who have a conscientious objection to the current pathway to marriage in our law," says Leatherwood. *Missing from the bill are age requirements, opening the door for possible child marriages. Something the bill sponsor acknowledged during a Children and Family Affairs subcommittee.* 🤷♂️🤣😂 *“There is not an explicit age limit,” Leatherwood said."* 💀🤣😂 Let me know when you're ready to say sorry, ahahaha!😂🤣
If an elderly man was/is weathly enough, has the biology still working, and finds a much younger fertile woman to marry him then this sort of thing can happen.
My father was 63 when I was born he was born in 1900 my mother was 42 when I was born she was born in 1920. I was born in 1962 and I just turned 60. Life is so strange.
My family is quite similar. My great grandfather was the first of my dad's side of the family to be born in the states in 1847, his mother had been pregnant on the ship over from Ireland. My grandfather was one of the last of his children, being born in 1892, then My dad was the last of his children and he was born in 1942 and then I was the last of his in 1996. So I have a great grandfather that lived through the civil war, a grandfather who lived during the wild west and ww1 and a father that grew up during ww2 and the korean war who also went on to fight in Vietnam. I sadly did not get to meet either of my grandparents as they died in 72 and 88.
Their grandfather would have been well over a century old by the time they were born so he would have been a very old grandfather especially when you see how young a lot of grandparents are these days it's incredible just how old he was in relation to their age but their father was in his 70s when they were born so it was understandable really.
@@shirtless6934 True, but also, especially in the South in the 20s, it was not uncommon for an old Civil War vet to have his pick of young women ages between 15-20, as his pension was quite a bit in those days. The South was already poor, and during the Depression, the meager pension of an old Rebel was the high life!
@@crownprincesebastianjohano7069 Ones I know about married women in their 20s and 30s, 15 is pretty young but eh the Depression made for desperate times
This is why discovering your genealoghy is so fascinating! My husband's family always said that great grandfather was fully native American, but my daughter did a DNA test and found she had no native American DNA but 1% African DNA. (Her being blond and blue eyed we never would've guess). After searching we found that in 1720 a man was brought from Guinea Africa to Jamaica then to New York, he was my husband's 6th great grandfather! His son fought in the American revolution and his application for a pension had his fathers information, its very rare to be able to trace the actual story of how, were and when a African ancestor comes to America, also the application for the pension is in the national archives.
With only 1% African DNA, its not really surprising for the person to still have full blown Caucasian traits. You'd be surprised at how common it is for Caucasian's to have African DNA in them, albeit not much obviously. 😂🙃
Lots of white Americans have black ancestors they don't know about, having blonde hair and blue eyes means nothing those are recessive traits but you could have a full black grandparent and still be born with blonde hair and blue eyes just like at Meghan Markle and Prince Harry with their ginger kids. Also if your native American ancestor was from a very long time ago it might not even be in your DNA anymore, unless it's reintroduced it just gets less and less with each generation until ti's gone completely.
Well the DNA test when talking about ethnicity are maybe less accurate than predicting the weather. Look closely in the small print, they tell you it’s a guess and that over time with more samples they MIGHT become more accurate. Their DNA pools are new, and most everyone has had some mixture in their blood when their sample is donated. And ethnicity testing is looking at markers that only show up with the traits you show, not the same markers that determine if you’re related to another person or not. Also the further away you’re related, it’s less and less accurate because similar people from similar areas are going to have similar markers, so always take it with a grain of salt. And if they are promising you your ethnicity, and you’re ancestors aren’t always all from the same country, take a shaker full. Also odd numbers don’t exist in ethnicity percentages. So if anything says something like 37%, you are not 37% anything, you are showing markers like the ethnicity by 37%, not 37% of your blood is that ethnicity. And many ethnicities are similar to one another in traits because of similar climate, but are from opposite parts of the planet.
True. Anything below 2% though should not be taken seriously. Having said that, your whole comment seems irrelevant given looking thoroughly through family history, they found this man was really their ancestor, proving there was truth here. @@gdaholic
Their story gave me goosebumps. Seeing Carol made me smile. Even crazier is my family's surname is Harris. I'm sure I'm not related, but it would be pretty cool to think I have a distant relative who fought for this country's freedom from Great Britain.
So they left one more gift to their childrens, before they departed and thats the Second Amendment. They knew their children and childrens childrens will NEED it. That America may stand a fighting chance! "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED"
So very interesting!! My 5 times great-grandfather was Brigadier General John Sevier of Tennessee. He fought under George Washington in the Revolutionary War as well. There is a statue of him, unveiled by my Grandmother when she was 19, in the Rotunda at the White House. I miss these old programs. Lots of fun!!
@@analyticalhabitrails9857 thank you. 😊My great-great grandmother was an internationally known genealogist and kept our family heritage passed down over time. I appreciate stories passed down through generations. They can be so fascinating.
@@dangreene3895 your Grandfather was 83 YEARS OLD when your father was born???? Or was your Great Grandfather born in 1832? Or was he Great-Great Grandfather?
@@japantarzan3551 My Great Grandfather was born in 1832 , my Grandfather was born in 1880 , my Father was born in 1915 , I was born in 1954 , It seems to be a thing in my family the males have children later in life , I was 34 when my daughter was born , My brother was 36 before his first child was born
My favorite topic. I’m so glad I found your channel. My Grandfather was born in the late 1800’s. That’s hard for me to wrap my mind around. OMG! REVOLUTIONARY WAR! In my head I was thinking Civil War. Until they said Valley Forge.😳
My great grandmother is still alive and well she's 93 and still lives at home by herself. My son is 7 and is very close to her. Not to many kids get to meet there great great grandmother 👍
I still find it crazy that people are alive who experienced WW2, it wasn't as long ago as it feels, this is felt even more so when you think about how much has happened since the end of ww2 and that in one lifetime the world has changed so much. By the way I'm a millennial if your curious of my age. I was born before the end of the cold war.. which even to me feels so far away.
I had the opposite effect; for most of my life time periods like WW2 have always felt recent, given I had a grandfather in that war, and his father fought in WW1, born in 1889 - you can imagine the psychological effect that has on a young child, to talk to a living adult who could truthfully say their DAD was born 24 years after the Civil War... history really isn't far away at all! I'm classified in the generation below you by the way (Gen Z, c.1994-2010?). You only hit your 30s in about 2019, which was very recent, yet people born in the early 80s are in their 40s now... but when I was born, they were only in their teens... and I'm not 20 yet! It is weird how time works.
The main documentation for the claim is an application that their grandmother once submitted for benefits as a Revolutionary War widow. The application was based on what her late husband had told her about his experiences.
Iirc, the last widow receiving Civil War pension benefits died in the early 2000s. She had been the girlfriend of the veteran’s grandson, and as the vet neared death, she married him instead, got the pension when he died, and then married the grandson as planned. So she and the grandson were able to collect those benefits all during their married life, a nice little safety net for them. I just have to respect that kind of gaming of the system, lol, what a canny old vet.
Get this: If these two beautiful women had children at a late age e.g. 60s-70s, their children could easily still be alive today, hence they can say, "our great grandfather fought in the American Revolutionary War." That would be INCREDIBLE to hear from someone today. For perspective, as a 20-year-old, my own great grandmother only just passed away a month ago.
My 6th gg was born 1747, fought in the revolutionary war, was 89 when his last child, was born, he died at 106. She passed in 1923. Means she was alive 140 years after the war ended. If tv/this show was around in her last years that would have made a good episode.
My grandfather (several times over) fought under Washington in the Revolutionary War. One fought in every major war. I have WWII pics of my great uncles. One was Air Force and one was Army. I never used to be that interested in my family tree. When my parents passed away I found tons of papers and pictures. Old ones. I'm now fascinated by what I found. I suck at research but there's a lot I still want to know.
There’s a genealogy website called Family Tree that you can use for free. I’ve been able to map back my family to the 1300’s that way. It’s really wonderful and you don’t have to pay anything.
I was at a funeral last year and the priest announced that the deceased’s great-grandson would deliver a eulogy. A man in his late twenties/early thirties got up, carrying his toddler with him. He said “for those who don’t know, my son isn’t the great-grandson - I am”. He then spoke about how wonderful it was to get to live for so many years having his great- grand-mother in his life, and how thrilled she has been to spend a couple years with her great-great-grandson.
One of my biggest regrets is not asking so many questions of my grandparents who lived through two world wars and the depression among so many other things.
Did everyone see how YOUNG the two sisters acted. I'm in my 70"s and believe me all ths OLD people acted that way then. That's because their water, food and air was NOT poisoned like it is today. NOONE was on any medication then either! Think about how weak we are now compared to past generations!
My grand parents were all born in the early 1880's. It's remarkable that they all saw every invention and event through 1970, when the last one died. Went from candles and horse and buggy, to the moon landing.
Their generation was just checking out as I was checking in and growing up. I fondly recall conversations (and afternoon tea) with some of the neighborhood ladies that were fascinating to me even at that age. Would love to hear about their horses - most people still had their barns in the 1960s.
Simon Harris was born in 1766 in Greene, Georgia. He was the son of Walton Harris (1739-1809) and Rebecca Louise Lanier (1744-1818), and was the grandson on his father's side of Nathan Harris (1710-1793) and Catherine Walton (1720-1812). He was the maternal grandson of Thomas Lanier Jr. (1712-1757) and Elizabeth Chamberlain (1710-1780). He was married in Greensville, Virginia on March 22, 1796 to Rebcca Virginia Davis (177-1863), the sisters' grandmother. Simon Harris died on May 11, 1831 in Knox, Tennessee. PS: Simon, was related to the Washington family.
Scrolled down looking for this very comment. Last I'd heard, 10th US President John Tyler has two living grandsons......might just be one, now. Still absolutely mind-boggling.
@@MrSupernova111 wow, not the first thing i'd think of in such a historic time. i'm fascinated that low info cavemen like yourself manage to hammer out some silly comment like yours and think they are owning someone. hahaha.
This video is eye-opening. Although, in my opinion, the title takes away from the reveal, which would have made the surprise realization exponentially more fascinating! Still, it is a truly poignant marker regarding the individual American's relevant history. Great stuff, thanks!
the problem is that it wasn't entirely true. Since the girls were from tennessee we can assume their dad was as well, which means he would've been a southerner and 43 years old in 1861 and 47 in 1865 when the war ended, and before that happened (in february 17th, 1864) , the confederate gov increased the conscription(draft) age to include all white males aged 17 to 50. Nitpicking, I know..but isn't that the best kind of picking ;) ?
The Conscript missed a lot of people. They were like bounty hunters, especially toward the end, many people hated them and went to great lengths to avoid them. The "rich man's war, poor man's fight" attitude was very strong among the common folks, too. And he may not have been a Confederate sympathizer anyway. Tennessee was bitterly divided over the war; east Tennessee in particular had several pro-Union counties. Lincoln's vice-president in 1864, President Andrew Johnson, came from one of those counties.
@@malbuff and then there was also the horrible law "Twenty slaves law" (known by another name I won't use!) that let plantation owners that enslaved more than 20 people be exempt from the conscript. Insane times 😭😭 (and to clarify, insane that one person thought he could own another person, and have that act codified into law)
@@JacobLantz Northern slave states too, but they called them border states, trying to deflect people from thinking of northern slave states as northern slave states. And Lincoln the lawyer defending slave owners.
@@JacobLantz Most people over the course of history have naturally assumed one person could own another. It was the standard for thousands of years, accepted and practiced across all nations, cultures, and tribes. The idea that there's something wrong with it is quite new, and was greeted with fierce resistance everywhere it was promoted. BTW, the "Twenty Negro Law" (there is nothing at all wrong with the word "Negro", never has been, never will be) was the origin of the "rich man's war, poor man's fight" attitude I alluded to above. The mountain folk in the South were especially wary of helping out the rich plantation owners. Best estimates are that no more than 5% of Confederate soldiers owned slaves, and that includes the officers.
My grandfather was about the same age as Delia and Bertie. I don't know his birth year for certain, but it was in the late 1800s, probably 1890s. He was married to my grandmother before WWI broke out. I used to think my family was pretty stretched out over time, but the Harris sisters and President John Tyler's 94 year old grandson (Harrison Tyler) make my family time frame look rather pedestrian, lol.
I knew my great-grandmother quite well. When she was a little girl growing up in Florida, there were no cars, nor radio, no TV, no airplanes. None of that had yet been invented. When she died, it was ten years after men had already first walked on the moon.
Amaz8ng. I know a lady in my church who is close to 90 whose grandfather was born in 1819 so very plausible. It was so much fun to talk history with her going out to the camp on the bus for a service this past summer.
It's mindblowing to think that during the lifetime of those ladies' grandfather there were actually still public witch burnings in Spain and Germany had ecclesastical principalities.
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Bertie Harris passed away in 1970. Delia Harris passed away in 1968. Another fun fact: their grandmother lived to see both revolutionary war and civil war
Feels so recent honestly
@@tdoran616 indeed. Seemed like eons ago when I was young, but it really wasn't long ago at all.
Poor woman
@@blaircox1589 it was in the matter of lifetimes.
@@bigskygemsmontana9464 And that's the way I like to measure time. Puts things in perspective. Trends and fads come and go in a lifetime. The War of Independence happened just over three of our lifetimes ago.
Carol Burnett, who is still alive today in 2022, spoke with someone whose immediate relative (of which a grandfather is one) fought in the Revolutionary War. Crazy to think about, but also a reminder of how young our country really is.
You say "our" as if only Americans can see this comment. Kind of cocky, eh?
I don't know if cocky is even the right term for that, but I needed to form a question for the "eh" so you'd know. You know. Even though that didn't start here.
@@Anti-HyperLink she was speaking about Americans you pretentious prick. We Americans can be proud of our country as well as you
consider we are in the year 2000 AD. the peak of Rome was more or less around 1 AD and Egypt had its peak around 1500BC. The idea of "the usa" is such an infant and new concept compared to the whole of human civilization. And to think the progress we've made in this short amount of time is mind blowing.
@@Anti-HyperLink I see you've been successfully indoctrinated to be a Wokie. Are you a proud citizen of "the world"?
I was thinking the same thing. This fact is absolutely amazing!
As a kid in the 80s, i used to ride my bike to the nursing home to see my granddad. His roommate was a WWI vet born in 1892. This guy was very sharp, mentally. I sat for hours listening to this man tell me stories. He was around before cars, before flight. His father fought on the Civil War. He also told me the horrific stories of the battles he and his unit were in in France. I never forgot this guy. He made it to 101 years old. I went to his funeral in 1993. At the time i was in the Army - 82nd Airborne Division. One of the proudest moments in my life was standing in front of his flagged draped casket, in uniform with the Honor Guard and rendering the sharpest salute I've ever rendered. You are missed Mr. Harper!
how interesting
What an honor and privilege it must have been to meet and talk with him.
I'm just as blown away by how polite and wholesome american TV used to be. This is incredible.
Yep sure was.
Sad but true. Look how embarrassed Carol Burnett is when she forgot both ladies were referred to as "Miss".
And it will get more evil, repent and believe the gospel of Jesus Christ.
You must not watch many game shows. It’s still just as polite and wholesome.
@@nailartguy3363 not like it was back then.
We had a gentleman who was 97 when I was in High School named Carlie Hahn - from our Methodist church come to several thanksgiving and Christmas dinners - he had lived from before electric light till well past landing on the moon and the age of the micro computer-
I asked him in frustration after many mundane events - Mr. Hahn , in this great expanse of history is there nothing truly remarkable you can tell us? He paused looking down and suddenly looked up with delight “well, my father voted for Abraham Lincoln.”
😮❤😂
That was a moment, he had probably never been asked a question like that; thank you.
My Great Grandmother was born in 1893 and passed in 1992. One of my cousins asked her the same question, knowing she had seen the coming of cars, airplanes and landing on the moon. He said Nannie, what’s the most amazing thing you’ve seen in your life? She responded “Butter in a squeeze bottle” 🤣 True story.
There is a video of a guy on RUclips who was alive when Lincoln was elected president and how the civil war started. Remastered video. It's about 18 minutes long. I think the interview was done in 1942 and the guy died in 1948.
@@elizabethlinsay9193 What state is your family from????
@@Scape_The_Goat Denial
My Granddad, born in 1909, told me about how he remembers meeting Civil War veterans in the 1930's. He also told me about how some of these veterans knew veterans of the Revolutionary War. Just a couple of handshakes away. Amazing really. I'm 56.
The country's only 200 something years so major events happened pretty quickly all things considered.
"just a couple hand shakes away." I love how you put that into perspective!
Revolution happened in 1776 civil war was in 1862....bout 100 years...so math doesnt add up
@@calvinsuu1949 Actually, it does.
@@A_Black_Sheep94 yup
A grandson of John Tyler, (10th president of the United States, 1841-1845), is still alive!.
His name is Harrison Tyler and he is 94 and in a nursing home. His brother, Lyon, died in 2020 at the age of 96.
There are interviews of these two on RUclips.
Wow!!
Daddy and grandpa married twenty year old when they were in their 70s lol.
@D Sullivan lol definitely
John Tyler had a Grandson who was in Pickett's Division and was in the famous charge
John Tyler was born in March 1790 - his grandson is still with us today over 232 years later.
I was born in 1981. I had a retired school teacher who substituted for the younger grades, and she was born in 1893. She was 93 when I first had her. In my first neighborhood, we had an elderly neighbor whose parents were former slaves. I knew people who, in turn, knew Civil War veterans. And, to top it off, I was close to my great-grandmother, who was born in 1897 and died in 2000. She still remembered going to her great-grandparents house and sitting on the lap of her great-great-grandmother...who was born in 1798 and died in 1901. So, I sat on the lap of a woman who lived to see the age of Playstation 2, and she sat on the lap of a woman who was born when Washington was still living. These people and events were not from a long time ago. We just don't live long enough to see how close it all really was.
That's incredible... you met a woman who met someone from 1798! The furthest link to the past I have my is my grandfather, who born in 1934
My mind is expanded if not blown….from the start of the Industrial Age to now….amazing.
Amazing how recent all of the history we study truly is.
Wow that ran on.
But cool
My grandfather was born in 1893. My grandmother in 1901.
My college students were all born in the 2000s. They are amazed when I tell them all four of my grandparents were born in the 1880s.
Me too! My paternal grandfather was born in 1879 and died in 1922, 34 years before I was born.
All four of my grandparents were born in the 1890's. Except for my mom's mom, I wish I got to know the other three. The family history would have been amazing. My late mom and dad were born in 1923 and 1927 respectively, I sure do miss them. I was born in the 1960's.
My great grandparents on my father's side were born in the 1880's.
So strange. How old are you?
My grandma born in 1949
All four of my grandparents were born in the 1890s. Both my parents were the youngest in their families.
"I've Got A Secret" is a show they should bring back to television.
I don’t want to know what “secrets” people have today. These ladies are much more interesting.
Let’s just hope their secrets would be a bit more wholesome than modern day television still.
Unfortunately, today in the age of the internet and social media, nobody has any secrets anymore.
@Grassy Sands Most of them lie constantly anyway. It's a world of narcissistic fakers.
I think it would be great fun potentially popular with a lot of folks.
My Great Grandmother was born in 1886 and I met her as she lived until 1984. Great Grandfather was born in 1877 & unfortunately wasn't able to see him. But I remember my Great Grandmother's funeral and being amazed that the Date of her birth began with 18 instead of 19.
Lesson: while these folks are Still alive get the stories about life from them and record them. They(the ppl & the stories) are truly priceless.
Great advice, Igor!
My great grandfather was born in the 1895, and got to see the town where he lived, grow bigger before he died in 1980's. I was young when I meet him, but my mom has a picture of us together, and I remember a funny old man with whiskers that tickled. His own father was born in 1865.
A great aunt of mine was born in 1880. I met her before she died.
My great grandfather was born 1891 and I saw him for the last time in 1984.
You are so right about getting the stories. Both of my grandparents are gone now, and I used to live to listen to them tell of their childhoods.
My grandfather was born in 1897 in KY. They moved to TX in 1912. In 1980 we visited the house they moved to in 1912 and left in 1914. He could still draw a floor plan of it and describe each room. Grandparents are a gift to be treasured.
It must have been strange to fight in the American revolution and then experience the civil war. There is a book about 6 men that fought in the American revolution, they were very young. They all lived to be over 100. Before they died their photographs were taken and they told their stories about the war. One of them had spoken with Washington another had fought under Benedict Arnold. They all lived to see the civil war. I have photographs of my 4th great grandparents. They were born in the late 1700's. They were elderly when the pictures were taken. But l was so amazed that I was looking at people who were alive when Washington was still around.
Do you have a link to those pictures I'd like to see them
Do you recall the name of the book?
@@kentuckytropics The Revolution's Last Men: The Soldiers Behind the Photographs
War Between The States.
Frankly, the American Revolution was also a kind of "civil war", as a lot of the colonists were against independence from the Crown; so much so there were numerous Loyalist Militias throughout the colonies, and several of them even joined the Regulars. That led to literally brother fighting against brother, neighbour against neighbour, father against son. In his farewell speech as President, Washington warned against both a bi-partisan political system, and the divide between the Northern and Southern states that could lead to war (the latter part might have been in one of his letters, I can't quite recall). But even in Colonial times, there was a notable divide between the Northern and Southern colonies, as the Northern colonies often disparaged the colonies and colonists down South and treated them with utter disdain and contempt, like how they often referred to Gen. Washington as nothing more than "a dirty pig farmer from Virginia".
I am 54... My great-grandfather fought in the Spanish-American War, and my great-great grandfather fought in the Civil War. His great-great grandfather (my 6th grandfather) fought in the Revolutionary War, at the Battles of Trenton and Brandywine. When my grandmother was a little girl she met veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg, and she met Robert Todd Lincoln, the son of President Abraham Lincoln... She passed when I was in my early 30's, so I really got to enjoy her stories. Our country is so young!
I am not trying to be rude at all but the USA is not young nation, at the time if it's inception there was no nation of Germany or Italy or Ireland, 3 of the nations many Amercian's say they are from.
I'm 73 years old, and, I had two Great -grandfathers who fought in the American Civil War. Not my Great -great-grandfathers. My GREAT -GRANDFATHERS. My paternal Grandfather was born in 1872, and, my maternal grandmother was born in 1879. My father was born in 1901, and, my mother was born in 1918.
@@adchancellor1380 I am one generation behind you... My grandmothers were born in 1913 and 1917, and my grandfathers were born in 1898 and 1917. My father was born in 1947 and he is 75, and my mother was born in 1945. She would be 77 now if she were alive.
Bullshit.
I am a 41 years old Jamaican, my 5th great grand father was an officer of Great Britain and fought the Americans in the war if 1812. His brother was a veteran of Anglo-Dutch wars for the Caribbean and he became the Governor General of Antigua.
My ancestor Johann Warner Buck was a hessian soldier at the battle of Trenton … captured by Washington soldiers and became enamored by the American cause and escaped and became an American citizen !
That is fascinating. A lot of German (Hessian) soldiers stayed after the war was over. They formed German towns which still exist today.
I remember one of Bruce Catton 's stories in Waiting for the Morning Train about one of the last Revolutionary War soldiers being called to speak during a 4th of July celebration. He started by saying 'he remembered when we surrendered at Yorktown' only to get heckled 'hey old man you didn't surrender at Yorktown.' He starts again by saying about 'how we laid down our swords' only to get heckled again. Frustrated, he blurts out 'I should know; I was one of Cornwalli's Hessians!'
Greetings from Hessen! ❤🤍
One of my great-great-great Grandfathers was a Hessian soldier, and he stayed too. And the other side of the family fought with Marion’s men.
That’s fascinating! He serve anywhere else before?
The grandfather had a son in 1818 when he was 52 years old. The son had two daughters in the early 1890s when he was in his early 70s. The daughters appeared on the show in 1961. They appear to be in their late 60s or early 70s. It all makes sense.
The arithmetic is OK!
Thanks for doing the math so the rest of us don’t.
It’s never too late for a healthy man to start a family.
@@eldermillennial8330: Idiotic for 55+ males to have children. That’s the problem we have today in the U.S. with women having children in their 30’s. As a rule they’re premature or not with defects! Don’t cackle to me about future advances in medicine. This is the cause of zero birth rate here and in Europe. This is the reason we’re overrun by third worlders! What’s the cause of all of this democracy. It needs to be gotten rid of. Two centuries ago it was a good idea but it doesn’t work any more!
The daughters were born 1885, 1887, 1891
What was so fascinating about this time in which the show was aired was that all of the old people still living had been born sometime in the 1800s. If I had been a young man at that time I would’ve loved talking to older people and asking them about their experiences as a young person in the 1800s. It would’ve been fascinating.
60 years from now, people will probably say the same thing about you, and all the interesting old people you could have been talking to. Every retirement home is full of old people who would love to tell you about the interesting times they lived through. Nothing is stopping you.
Of course, it wasn't that interesting at the time, because ... ALL the old people had those stories. It's when they're gone that it becomes interesting, unfortunately.
When I was little, every adult had memory of WW2, one of my neighbors served in WW1, and another neighbor came west in a covered wagon as a child. The old people had second-hand memories of the Civil War era, having heard about those times from their grandparents.
@@Will-tn8kq Yes we can talk to the older people today about the Times when they were younger. I just think it would’ve been fascinating to have talked to someone who had lived in the 1800s before automobiles planes telephones radios etc. it was such a different world. And yes I did hear stories from my grandparents who lived through the Depression World War II and so on.
@@tobystamps2920 I agree. I am just saying that the people who lived before smartphones, social media and the singularity will probably appear equally as fascinating to our future grandkids.
@@Will-tn8kq True
Those elderly ladies hopped up and scurried off the stage like a couple 30 year olds. Different times.
Hahhahaha 😂. They could both probably crush our hands with a handshake
Not as much processed food back then as there is now. If you look at videos of older people back then, a lot of them were still very sharp and vigorous even in their 70's and 80's. Not everybody ate junk and fast food places were non-existent or there were very few.
They got up and walked across the stage. What's different?
@@obsidiana07 yeah and people back then thought DDT and asbestos were good for you. Pick your poison.
I play doubles tennis with guys in their late 60' and 70's....one is in his early 80's
I’ve always been fascinated by how few generations our American history actually spans. My own grandfather was born in 1873, 3 years before Custer’s last stand. His father fought in the Confederacy during the Civil War from NC. My grandpa Barker passed when I was very young, but I remember him well singing “John Brown’s body lies a moldering’ in the grave…” I didn’t know who John Brown was at that time, but my grandpa must’ve heard his dad singing it as a kid.
Years later, I met my grandpa’s younger half brother, who showed me a bayonet his dad had brought back to NC from the war in 1865. He said they’d used it as a fireplace poker for years. He remembered how my great grandfather told of being in a battle in Virginia where most of his company was killed and he was captured. The were taken to a prison camp he called “Pint Lookout” and “turned loose” some months later. After some research, I verified my gr grandpa John Barker had been captured near Burkesville, Va on April 6, 1865 and imprisoned at Point Lookout, MD Union prison and released on June 23, 1865.
I'm glad this film is available, Time is an amazing thing
With fucking Carol burrnnet too
And to see a young Carol Burnett on the show!! Bonus!
In 1989 I met a man whose father fought at Appomattox. He told me everyone always corrected him and said, you must mean your grandfather. But it was his father he explained his father had been born in 1850, and he had kids in his fifties. It made sense. The man was in his 90s at the time. He showed me his father’s sword
@Grassy Sands yeah, he would have been about 15, that was common for them days
@@mr.zondide2746 Likely a drummer or bugler.
@Grassy Sands
No.
@Grassy Sands Lots of child soldiers in places like Africa. 15 year olds fought in WWII on the German and Russian side as Flak gunners, and, at the end for the Germans, 12 year olds attacking tanks with Panzerfaust. My youngest soldiers were 18 and all modern armies are made up of kids 18-21. The gear and armor may make them look older, but they are very much just kids even at 20. It is unfortunate that Hollywood always portrays soldiers with actors in their late 20s; it doesn't hammer home that we send kids to fight our wars. If people understood that more viscerally, we might fight fewer wars.
@Grassy Sands There are much younger ones today.
My late grandfather who died in 2021 aged 85 told me a story that was passed onto him by a family friend during WW2, the family friend’s great grandfather when a young boy met an old Jacobite Solider who had fought at the battle of Culloden in 1746 😳
I only know what you're referring to because of Outlander!
Keep these historical pieces of history alive there informative educational for the past much appreciated
My Grandmother’s oldest sister was a widow of a Civil war veteran. Still got a pension check maybe till the 1950’s.
Wow. Thats so awesome to read. My Great Grandfather died defending Vicksburg
@@gavinculpepper9685 sorry about your loss 😢
This is one of my favorite channels on you tube!!! It’s like time traveling!! So fascinating!!
This was not only a great story by these 2 lovely ladies, but this clip also contained a young Carol Burnette and one of my relatives, Bill Cullen. AMAZING!
It's amazing how quickly time passes. Everything we learn of history seems so distant in the past, but it's so much closer than we think.
It’s interesting that 200 years ago couples were not afraid of having large families. In an agrarian culture everyone had something to offer even at a young age.
Child mortality rates were high but large families were considered a blessing.
Comparatively today, child mortality rates are very low but having more than 2.5 children is considered irresponsible, while swimming in exorbitant wealth is considered a prudent.
For such a young country, we have arrived at the doorstep of doom so early by our own hand. That’s what happens when a nations refuses God.
@@itsok2bwhiteendanti-whiteh548 on the contrary, it’s religion, christianity in particular, where the origin of all this self-destruction comes from, mixed with self-destructive roman legalism. europeans would most benefit when they not only stop being christian, but stop drawing all their morality that has christian and jewish origins. look to any leftist movements, and you can find origins in christian morality (socialism, communism, etc).
@@itsok2bwhiteendanti-whiteh548 that’s correct! Love your “name”!
Good points
Having large families is not uncommon, especially in the 1800s! Looking through my family history, there are several distant relatives, that had 11 children! There was about 20 years from the 1st child born, to the last one.
My great grandmom born in 1877 lived until I was in HS - died in 77 at 100. She had witnessed the reconstruction and her parents had all lived thru the civil war years. She had many tales to tell of the things her parents and grandparents told about the war, slavery, and of voting for Lincoln and his subsequent death.
1776 seems a long time ago, but to watch this brings a sharp perspective that it was not that long ago in the grand scheme of things. My mind is blown.
My heart beats with renew hope and nearly made this man shed many tears.
I love how Gary Moore held the chairs for both ladies as they sat down and how both ladies wore the mandatory white gloves which were so popular in the 1950s. I’m old enough to remember wearing white gloves when I was a child and I still keep a pair in a drawer to this day.
Amazing to see the manners of all involved. It makes one cry to think what TV has turned into since then....
A reason to learn history:
If you don't know how you got to where you are,
Then you don't know where you are.
My great grandfather fought in the battle of Utoy Creek under General Johnston during the Battle of Atlanta during the Civil War. He had a Minnie Ball in his leg which he carried as his "badge of honor" to his grave.
Wow. Amazing!! My Great Grandfather died defending Vicksburg
Wow! and Wow! to you both. And my Great Great Uncle was a Union General during the Civil War.
General Nathaniel Lyon. He was the first Union General to die in battle.
My great grandfather joined the Confederate Army in 1861, aged 15. He was in the army all 4 years, even spent 9 months in a northern prisoner of war camp. He survived, was never wounded, and died in 1923, when my mother was 5 years old.
@@hyacinth4368 Very interesting! 😊
@@marysterling691 Thank you. He's my favorite ancestor. My mother and older aunts remembered him, and as I was born when mother was nearly 40, I heard their reminiscences about him.
Love hearing these stories. My great grandfather x 11, Adam Eichelberger, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, Infantry 3rd Battalion of York County, Pennsylvania. The announcement of his promotion was signed by John Morton, a speaker of the Pennsylvania Provisional Assembly and is one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
I was born in 1995. I have memories of spending time with my great-great grandmother, who was born in 1898, and was 105 when she died in 2003. she lived with my great-grandmother who died in her late 90s. My grandmother is currently 83. I feel so blessed to have been able to interact with family members from generations long before mine.
My grandfather was born in 1899 but I never got to meet him, he died 10 years before I was born.
Good genes!
All these stories are fascinating! My own family history…..I was born in 1973, my father 1902, my grandfather in 1857 and great grandfather in 1814.
No one cares
@@jake8855 "No one cares"
You do, apparently.
@@everforward8651 Why? Cause I commented?
@@jake8855 I care, it is interesting for me
I care.
Great story! I'm 58, got to know great grandfather (1883-1980) His life spanned horse&buggies to Rocket ships! His Dad was 51yrs when he was born- too old fight in Civil war& lived in Michigan when it was western frontier& Indian attacks were frequent
I’m in a michigan history class at my school and had to learn all about the Native American battles in Michigan. That’s so cool! ☺️
I’m in my 20’s before my Grandpa died I would ask him numerous questions about the past unfortunately I didn’t record it. I wish I could go in a nursing home and just record all the elderly.
What’s stopping you from doing exactly that? Can you not locate a nursing home?
You could though. They let you do that. Usually the old people are happy to have someone to talk to. It's considered a public service to go talk to them.
I bet there would be people in most nursing homes who would love to have a conversation with you.
It's a very good idea. Now I'm considering doing the same thing. 👍🙂
I volunteered in a nursing home in 1978. I used to spend time with a woman who was born in 1888. She told the most interesting stories! I still miss her to this day. 😢 💗
I used to spend my early childhood visiting my grandma who was born in 1924. I wish I asked her what life was like in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Well I had ancestors that fought in the American revolution but they were 5th great grandfather's and uncle's. One of them even had a conversation with George Washington. I'll give him a shout out even though he's long dead, Samuel Ellis. But it's this kind of thing that really shows that the American revolution wasn't that long ago even though it feels like it.
These stories makes me quake and rejoice!
What was the conversation about?
@@nickirows My 5th ggf was on duty one day when Washington rode up right beside him on his horse. Washington pulled out his spyglass, He was looking at the movements of the British. He then with great familiarity handed the spyglass over to my 5 ggf and told him to take a look. Quite a conversation then occurred. I don't know the specifics of what was said, but I would assume it would have been in regards to the British.
Was there anything handed down as to how Washington spoke, the sound of his voice, mannerisms, etc.? Because there was no video or audio recording then, I'm wondering if people would've paid more attention to those things.
Well when you're younger, 200 years can seem like forever. But when you're older, 200 years doesn't seem like that long really. Just think, the nation was only 200 years old in 1976. I was born just a few years after that. The U.S. is pretty young when you think about it.
True. I'm 60 so I remember the Bicentennial at 14. My kids are 21 now but they will most likely see in the Tricentennial in 2076.
My maternal grandmother, born in 1890, got a celebratory 'hug' from an old man in 1897 at the street party celebrating Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. What was special about it? Well, he had been a drummer boy at the Battle of Waterloo in June of 1815, and had been badly wounded. He survived the night under a cannon limber, kept warm by his father, one of Wellington's soldiers. He asked my grandmother to 'pass it on to her children'. She did so, to her daughter, my mom, and I passed it on to my daughter when she was seven, and to her daughter when SHE was seven, and so it goes on....
My great great grandmother lived to 99 back in 08, 3 months before 100. Her husband my great great grandfather was born 2 years earlier, but had past before her. Married over 80 years. Life goals
I'm watching this in 2023 and this is one of the most entertaining things I've seen on Television or RUclips in a long time. Good, clean, amusing television with fascinating information
My Grandfather survived the Battle of the Muse-Argonne and lived an adventurous life and settled down and had my father at the age of 72 . My Father had me at the age 33. At 29 I am one of the youngest Grandchildren of a World War 1 veteran in the world .
Oh wow. My grandfather fought in WW1. I am 60 years old.
People have trouble believing this.
Nice to meet you ❤
My great-grandfather fought was in that same battle, the largest in WW 1.
I love this stuff. Herb Caen, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle for many years, wrote in his column during the 1980s about a reader at that time whose grandfather had been born in 1776.
Harrison Tyler (alive today at age 94) has a grandfather born in 1790 (President John Tyler).
It's something else that people can still have children in their 60s and 70s. That's like Clint Eastwood for example, it's crazy to me that he's 92 I think, and his youngest child is 24.
It's crazy how short some generational gaps are compared to others. There are people like these two sisters who never met their grandfather because of the gap in years between their generations, and there are others like myself that got to spend a good amount of time with my great-grandmother.
I spent 9 years with my husband's great grandmother. And our granddaughters had time with his mom til they were 9 and 14.
Imo, I feel better thinking about senior men having extremely young children, than men marrying/having sex with prey teens which wasn't really uncommon 125+ years ago. And in fact child marriage is still legal in many parts of America, with sicko Tennessee trying to enact a law that allows men (or I guess women too) the right to marry literally as young as they want.
Its a "free pass & loophole" for paedophiles.😡😤
I knew my great grandparents until I turned 13, my grandparents are alive and very well, they are in their late sixties and im 23. hopefully i have another 23 years with them. Yeah very young family 😅
@@jonhall2274 That's a lie about Tennesse.
@@kurtfrancis4621 🤦♂️😂🤣
*Nope, I was correct,* Tennessee got caught attempting to pass a bill that eliminated age limit for marriage, that is, until public outcry forced them to amend it. 🤷♂️
Here, I'll post an article, from a *local Tennessee News station about the once proposed bill,* AND I'll even *BOLD* the *IMPORTANT* points for you, since you are incapable of doing a 30 second search and finding that *I was indeed correct.* 💀😂🤣😂
*"A bill proposal making its way through Tennessee legislature* that would establish a common-law marriage between “one man” and “one woman,"
*"Opponents of the bill say it would eliminate an age requirement, opening the door for a coverup of child sex abuse."* 😏
"The bill’s sponsor, Tom Leatherwood (R-Arlington) says the law being considered would add a new marriage option for Tennesseans.
“So, all this bill does is give an alternative form of marriage for those pastors and other individuals who have a conscientious objection to the current pathway to marriage in our law," says Leatherwood.
*Missing from the bill are age requirements, opening the door for possible child marriages. Something the bill sponsor acknowledged during a Children and Family Affairs subcommittee.* 🤷♂️🤣😂
*“There is not an explicit age limit,” Leatherwood said."* 💀🤣😂
Let me know when you're ready to say sorry, ahahaha!😂🤣
If an elderly man was/is weathly enough, has the biology still working, and finds a much younger fertile woman to marry him then this sort of thing can happen.
Exactly. This is why one of John Tyler’s *grandsons* is still alive.
My father was 63 when I was born he was born in 1900 my mother was 42 when I was born she was born in 1920. I was born in 1962 and I just turned 60. Life is so strange.
@@livingintheforest3963 you got the age wrong he couldnt have been 63 when u were born
@Grassy Sands Rude a*sehole!
My family is quite similar. My great grandfather was the first of my dad's side of the family to be born in the states in 1847, his mother had been pregnant on the ship over from Ireland. My grandfather was one of the last of his children, being born in 1892, then My dad was the last of his children and he was born in 1942 and then I was the last of his in 1996. So I have a great grandfather that lived through the civil war, a grandfather who lived during the wild west and ww1 and a father that grew up during ww2 and the korean war who also went on to fight in Vietnam. I sadly did not get to meet either of my grandparents as they died in 72 and 88.
Their grandfather would have been well over a century old by the time they were born so he would have been a very old grandfather especially when you see how young a lot of grandparents are these days it's incredible just how old he was in relation to their age but their father was in his 70s when they were born so it was understandable really.
Of course a person does not need to be alive to have grandchildren.
@@shirtless6934 True, but also, especially in the South in the 20s, it was not uncommon for an old Civil War vet to have his pick of young women ages between 15-20, as his pension was quite a bit in those days. The South was already poor, and during the Depression, the meager pension of an old Rebel was the high life!
@@crownprincesebastianjohano7069 Ones I know about married women in their 20s and 30s, 15 is pretty young but eh the Depression made for desperate times
This is why discovering your genealoghy is so fascinating! My husband's family always said that great grandfather was fully native American, but my daughter did a DNA test and found she had no native American DNA but 1% African DNA. (Her being blond and blue eyed we never would've guess). After searching we found that in 1720 a man was brought from Guinea Africa to Jamaica then to New York, he was my husband's 6th great grandfather! His son fought in the American revolution and his application for a pension had his fathers information, its very rare to be able to trace the actual story of how, were and when a African ancestor comes to America, also the application for the pension is in the national archives.
With only 1% African DNA, its not really surprising for the person to still have full blown Caucasian traits.
You'd be surprised at how common it is for Caucasian's to have African DNA in them, albeit not much obviously. 😂🙃
Lots of white Americans have black ancestors they don't know about, having blonde hair and blue eyes means nothing those are recessive traits but you could have a full black grandparent and still be born with blonde hair and blue eyes just like at Meghan Markle and Prince Harry with their ginger kids. Also if your native American ancestor was from a very long time ago it might not even be in your DNA anymore, unless it's reintroduced it just gets less and less with each generation until ti's gone completely.
Well the DNA test when talking about ethnicity are maybe less accurate than predicting the weather. Look closely in the small print, they tell you it’s a guess and that over time with more samples they MIGHT become more accurate. Their DNA pools are new, and most everyone has had some mixture in their blood when their sample is donated. And ethnicity testing is looking at markers that only show up with the traits you show, not the same markers that determine if you’re related to another person or not. Also the further away you’re related, it’s less and less accurate because similar people from similar areas are going to have similar markers, so always take it with a grain of salt. And if they are promising you your ethnicity, and you’re ancestors aren’t always all from the same country, take a shaker full. Also odd numbers don’t exist in ethnicity percentages. So if anything says something like 37%, you are not 37% anything, you are showing markers like the ethnicity by 37%, not 37% of your blood is that ethnicity. And many ethnicities are similar to one another in traits because of similar climate, but are from opposite parts of the planet.
Those tests are just a way for the government to get your DNA on file.
True. Anything below 2% though should not be taken seriously.
Having said that, your whole comment seems irrelevant given looking thoroughly through family history, they found this man was really their ancestor, proving there was truth here. @@gdaholic
Absolutely bonkers. When you think about it, our country is only like 3 people old and that's wild. It has changed so rapidly.
Their story gave me goosebumps. Seeing Carol made me smile. Even crazier is my family's surname is Harris. I'm sure I'm not related, but it would be pretty cool to think I have a distant relative who fought for this country's freedom from Great Britain.
It's worth a month of ancestry membership to find out!
@@AccountInactive and with the name like Harris she'll probably find she has British ancestry.
Loved this! Thanks for sharing!
I've seen at least one other episode from this program, but this one was absolutely amazing. Thanks the work in bringing it to us.
2:29 That quick, "My name is MISS." 😂 Idk why this was in my feed, but it's awesome! Thx!👍
My great grandfather fought in the American Civil War. The town his regiment was from was Danville, Indiana. He was only 16 when he enlisted.
Wow, I was a year old when this show aired in 1961! What a fascinating history these two ladies had!
So they left one more gift to their childrens, before they departed and thats the Second Amendment. They knew their children and childrens childrens will NEED it. That America may stand a fighting chance!
"SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED"
I wasn’t even born for a few more years!
Imagine this today, people can't remember what happened last week..
So very interesting!! My 5 times great-grandfather was Brigadier General John Sevier of Tennessee. He fought under George Washington in the Revolutionary War as well. There is a statue of him, unveiled by my Grandmother when she was 19, in the Rotunda at the White House. I miss these old programs. Lots of fun!!
Well it is a relief that their childrens are still around and shating priceless stories. A testament to The Declaration of Independence.
@@analyticalhabitrails9857 thank you. 😊My great-great grandmother was an internationally known genealogist and kept our family heritage passed down over time. I appreciate stories passed down through generations. They can be so fascinating.
Amazing!!
I am 68 my great Grandfather was born in 1832 , my Grandfather was in the Spanish / American War , so I can see how this would have been .
It still all feels mind blowing. I’m 63. My great-grandfather lived through the 1871 great Chicago fire. That was 151 years ago! The magic of math!
When was your father born then?
@@japantarzan3551 1915
@@dangreene3895 your Grandfather was 83 YEARS OLD when your father was born???? Or was your Great Grandfather born in 1832? Or was he Great-Great Grandfather?
@@japantarzan3551 My Great Grandfather was born in 1832 , my Grandfather was born in 1880 , my Father was born in 1915 , I was born in 1954 , It seems to be a thing in my family the males have children later in life , I was 34 when my daughter was born , My brother was 36 before his first child was born
My favorite topic.
I’m so glad I found your channel.
My Grandfather was born in the late 1800’s. That’s hard for me to wrap my mind around.
OMG! REVOLUTIONARY WAR! In my head I was thinking Civil War. Until they said Valley Forge.😳
My great grandmother is still alive and well she's 93 and still lives at home by herself. My son is 7 and is very close to her. Not to many kids get to meet there great great grandmother 👍
I still find it crazy that people are alive who experienced WW2, it wasn't as long ago as it feels, this is felt even more so when you think about how much has happened since the end of ww2 and that in one lifetime the world has changed so much. By the way I'm a millennial if your curious of my age. I was born before the end of the cold war.. which even to me feels so far away.
I had the opposite effect; for most of my life time periods like WW2 have always felt recent, given I had a grandfather in that war, and his father fought in WW1, born in 1889 - you can imagine the psychological effect that has on a young child, to talk to a living adult who could truthfully say their DAD was born 24 years after the Civil War... history really isn't far away at all!
I'm classified in the generation below you by the way (Gen Z, c.1994-2010?).
You only hit your 30s in about 2019, which was very recent, yet people born in the early 80s are in their 40s now... but when I was born, they were only in their teens... and I'm not 20 yet! It is weird how time works.
The main documentation for the claim is an application that their grandmother once submitted for benefits as a Revolutionary War widow. The application was based on what her late husband had told her about his experiences.
Iirc, the last widow receiving Civil War pension benefits died in the early 2000s. She had been the girlfriend of the veteran’s grandson, and as the vet neared death, she married him instead, got the pension when he died, and then married the grandson as planned. So she and the grandson were able to collect those benefits all during their married life, a nice little safety net for them. I just have to respect that kind of gaming of the system, lol, what a canny old vet.
Amazing. And did you know that President John Tyler (our 10th President) has a grandson still alive today. Crazy!
Aunt Bea! "My name is Miss!"
Someone alive today, I saw here on the you tube, who's grandfather was in the Civil War. I forget the details, though
Get this:
If these two beautiful women had children at a late age e.g. 60s-70s, their children could easily still be alive today, hence they can say, "our great grandfather fought in the American Revolutionary War." That would be INCREDIBLE to hear from someone today. For perspective, as a 20-year-old, my own great grandmother only just passed away a month ago.
Makes a person wonder why neither of them got married
@@GermanShepherd1983 Who's to judge? 🤷♂
Could be a million reasons for that @@GermanShepherd1983
My 6th gg was born 1747, fought in the revolutionary war, was 89 when his last child, was born, he died at 106. She passed in 1923. Means she was alive 140 years after the war ended. If tv/this show was around in her last years that would have made a good episode.
The fact that he had a working Prostate at 88 is very impressive!
Hold on thats crazy! His child died almost 200 years after her fathers death.. my mind is blown i cant believe what i've just read
So my 6th gg born 1747 died 1853. Last child was born 1836 died 1923. I was pretty surprised too
My grandfather (several times over) fought under Washington in the Revolutionary War. One fought in every major war. I have WWII pics of my great uncles. One was Air Force and one was Army. I never used to be that interested in my family tree. When my parents passed away I found tons of papers and pictures. Old ones. I'm now fascinated by what I found. I suck at research but there's a lot I still want to know.
There’s a genealogy website called Family Tree that you can use for free. I’ve been able to map back my family to the 1300’s that way. It’s really wonderful and you don’t have to pay anything.
@@norissamelanie-jeanalleano1651 thank you. I'll look into it.
That's just incredible!!!
Great clip!!!
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
Beyond remarkable. Thank you for this upload. ❤
The dawn of the United States _almost_ being documented in film
The sunset nowadays certainly is.
1:55 Back in the days when one could conclude the relative was a man based on the process of elimination! Boy are those days leaving us fast.
I was at a funeral last year and the priest announced that the deceased’s great-grandson would deliver a eulogy.
A man in his late twenties/early thirties got up, carrying his toddler with him.
He said “for those who don’t know, my son isn’t the great-grandson - I am”. He then spoke about how wonderful it was to get to live for so many years having his great- grand-mother in his life, and how thrilled she has been to spend a couple years with her great-great-grandson.
One of my biggest regrets is not asking so many questions of my grandparents who lived through two world wars and the depression among so many other things.
My 5th great grandfather had five sons and all five fought in the Revolutionary War, all lived and had huge family's.
This really goes to show just how young the United States really is.
After my father died, I realized he was alive for one-third of the history of the Republic.
Yeah it's insane to think about.
And already in decline.
This video is extremely important.
How fascinating! I bet they heard some wonderful stories in their house growing up!
Did everyone see how YOUNG the two sisters acted. I'm in my 70"s and believe me all ths OLD people acted that way then. That's because their water, food and air was NOT poisoned like it is today. NOONE was on any medication then either! Think about how weak we are now compared to past generations!
My grand parents were all born in the early 1880's. It's remarkable that they all saw every invention and event through 1970, when the last one died. Went from candles and horse and buggy, to the moon landing.
Their generation was just checking out as I was checking in and growing up. I fondly recall conversations (and afternoon tea) with some of the neighborhood ladies that were fascinating to me even at that age. Would love to hear about their horses - most people still had their barns in the 1960s.
I live in England but find this fascinating. Ben Franklins son (William Franklin) fought on the British side and is buried I believe in London.
Simon Harris was born in 1766 in Greene, Georgia. He was the son of Walton Harris (1739-1809) and Rebecca Louise Lanier (1744-1818), and was the grandson on his father's side of Nathan Harris (1710-1793) and Catherine Walton (1720-1812). He was the maternal grandson of Thomas Lanier Jr. (1712-1757) and Elizabeth Chamberlain (1710-1780). He was married in Greensville, Virginia on March 22, 1796 to Rebcca Virginia Davis (177-1863), the sisters' grandmother. Simon Harris died on May 11, 1831 in Knox, Tennessee. PS: Simon, was related to the Washington family.
I think one of John Tyler's grandchildren is still living.
Scrolled down looking for this very comment. Last I'd heard, 10th US President John Tyler has two living grandsons......might just be one, now. Still absolutely mind-boggling.
I believe I heard one of them passed away a few years ago
@@Stevo935 one died in 2020 the other is in his 90s
so badass. it'd be incredible to hear about the type of stories old granddad had to tell.
Nothing like talking about soldiers getting maimed and killed in battle. What other fascinating topics you like discussing?
@@MrSupernova111 wow, not the first thing i'd think of in such a historic time. i'm fascinated that low info cavemen like yourself manage to hammer out some silly comment like yours and think they are owning someone. hahaha.
This is almost similar to John Tyler our 10th President born in 1790 when George Washington was President, having a GRANDSON still alive in 2022.
That's mind boggling quite honestly!
This video is eye-opening. Although, in my opinion, the title takes away from the reveal, which would have made the surprise realization exponentially more fascinating! Still, it is a truly poignant marker regarding the individual American's relevant history. Great stuff, thanks!
Someone on tv talking about a relative being part of the colonies' mutinying! And their father being too old for the 'civil' war, just as amazing!
the problem is that it wasn't entirely true.
Since the girls were from tennessee we can assume their dad was as well, which means he would've been a southerner and 43 years old in 1861 and 47 in 1865 when the war ended, and before that happened (in february 17th, 1864) , the confederate gov increased the conscription(draft) age to include all white males aged 17 to 50. Nitpicking, I know..but isn't that the best kind of picking ;) ?
The Conscript missed a lot of people. They were like bounty hunters, especially toward the end, many people hated them and went to great lengths to avoid them. The "rich man's war, poor man's fight" attitude was very strong among the common folks, too. And he may not have been a Confederate sympathizer anyway. Tennessee was bitterly divided over the war; east Tennessee in particular had several pro-Union counties. Lincoln's vice-president in 1864, President Andrew Johnson, came from one of those counties.
@@malbuff and then there was also the horrible law "Twenty slaves law" (known by another name I won't use!) that let plantation owners that enslaved more than 20 people be exempt from the conscript. Insane times 😭😭 (and to clarify, insane that one person thought he could own another person, and have that act codified into law)
@@JacobLantz Northern slave states too, but they called them border states, trying to deflect people from thinking of northern slave states as northern slave states. And Lincoln the lawyer defending slave owners.
@@JacobLantz Most people over the course of history have naturally assumed one person could own another. It was the standard for thousands of years, accepted and practiced across all nations, cultures, and tribes. The idea that there's something wrong with it is quite new, and was greeted with fierce resistance everywhere it was promoted. BTW, the "Twenty Negro Law" (there is nothing at all wrong with the word "Negro", never has been, never will be) was the origin of the "rich man's war, poor man's fight" attitude I alluded to above. The mountain folk in the South were especially wary of helping out the rich plantation owners. Best estimates are that no more than 5% of Confederate soldiers owned slaves, and that includes the officers.
My father remembered seeing old civil war soldiers marching (walking) in a parade in Superior, Wisconsin, 1940s.
My grandfather was about the same age as Delia and Bertie. I don't know his birth year for certain, but it was in the late 1800s, probably 1890s. He was married to my grandmother before WWI broke out. I used to think my family was pretty stretched out over time, but the Harris sisters and President John Tyler's 94 year old grandson (Harrison Tyler) make my family time frame look rather pedestrian, lol.
Valley Forge under Washington !! This man had seen Cornwallis surrender !! Absolutely incredible !!
I knew my great-grandmother quite well. When she was a little girl growing up in Florida, there were no cars, nor radio, no TV, no airplanes. None of that had yet been invented. When she died, it was ten years after men had already first walked on the moon.
Amaz8ng. I know a lady in my church who is close to 90 whose grandfather was born in 1819 so very plausible. It was so much fun to talk history with her going out to the camp on the bus for a service this past summer.
It's mindblowing to think that during the lifetime of those ladies' grandfather there were actually still public witch burnings in Spain and Germany had ecclesastical principalities.
I’ve already watched this lots of times on the ‘I’ve Got a Secret’ channel, but it’s always nice to see it again.
It's nice to see an intelligent game show again.