Did you know anyone from the 1800’s……..

[fat rat]

All my grandparents were born in the 1800’s and all immigrants from Italy,Germany and Ireland. They were all old school to the max. We had gardens with tons of canning. My great grandmother was born 1869 and lived to be 101. I learned plenty, from crushing grapes to maintaining a garden. I was probably 12 when the last one passed. Just a bit of my history.

 

[musicFunsun]

My grandma was born in 1900. Guess I may have known some other relatives when I was young, I’m sure some family members were born in 1898-99 . Interesting to think about.

 

[4Waters]

My great grandmother was born in 1899 and died in 1990 when I was 14

 

[Rennsport]

Great Grandma born 1895. Amazing the stories of all of the things she saw. All wars (except civil war of course) invention of the car, tv, telephone etc. she passed at 88. Always thought she would be the one in our family to hit triple digits. Sadly she did not. Tough woman!,

 

[boatpi]

My great grandmother, Austria.

 

[DILLIGAF]

My grandparents but i was very young when they passed on.

 

[Todd Mohr]

My grand parents on my dads side were born before 1900, My grandmother was born and raised in San Francisco, she would tell us about the big quake and fires destroying the city.

 

[jetboatperformance]

We have enorormous extended family here and in Missouri several still kicked Great stories

 

[DarkJuJu]

I wear my great grandfathers wedding band, inscribed the year of there marriage 1912. Lost my great grandmother when I was 16 but her daughter my grandmother is still kicking at 91. She is the last of my blood relatives other than my kids and and granddaughters.

 

[Flatsix66]

My mom was a pre war German, her dad worked on the railroad and was regularly captured by various forces and then a slave labor prisoner. From the French foreign legion fighting Arabs in Araibia, then the Russians in Siberia, then the Nazis. Then escaped back home to live his life out. His secret that I remember he told me was to always steal a bicycle and ride along side troop column road to avoid the Spifire machine guns. He often wondered home to the family in Northern Germany as the lone survivor of his group. My grandma would have an inclination that he was coming home and told the kids (my mom) to clean the house and prepare for papa. Crazy. My mom’s stories are amazing.

 

[Mandelon]

Grandfather was born in 1898 I believe, and grandmother in 1902. She told me about living through the San Francisco earthquake of 1907 when much of the city burned. She got a speeding ticket in a Model A ford in the 20's. Living through the depression. They owned a gas station so it wasn't too bad for them.
Their phone number in Los Altos was 3.
She bought her first house for $500 and a cow.
Grandpa owned a penny arcade in Capitola. He walked to work with a shotgun over his shoulder and bag of change. I inherited his old leather gunbelt. Not sure what became of it.
Imagine all they changes they saw in their lifetimes. From a total lack of indoor plumbing to a man on the moon. An amazing time to be alive. Two world wars, flight, telephone, radio, television, computers. Plastic, nylon, etc.

 

[Ziggy]

Unfortunately, I never knew any of my 4 grandparents. WWII, cancer and distance between the US west coast & europe prevented it. Only my moms mom did I meet as an infant, zero recollection.

 

[Bajastu]

My great grandmother was born in 1898 and I was able to see her live to 98 years old. She had super awesome stories about so many thing that weren’t invented and we as modern humans take for granted. I was born in 1977, so I was able to spend lots of time with her growing up. For 8 years we lived next door and after that we were only 5 miles away. Unfortunately her body declined as she became older but her mind was sharp as a tack. RIP Nana-Peg

 

[gottaminute?]

All my grandparents were born in the 1800’s and all immigrants from Italy,Germany and Ireland. They were all old school to the max. We had gardens with tons of canning. My great grandmother was born 1869 and lived to be 101. I learned plenty, from crushing grapes to maintaining a garden. I was probably 12 when the last one passed. Just a bit of my history.

great grandmother rode to california in a covered wagon and lived to see (via tv) man walk on the moon. a great life. hard at times. world wars. the depression. a great life, none the less.

 

[Deckin Around]

One of the things in my family history that stuck with me was that we had family split by the civil war with great great Uncles literally fighting brother against brother North and South.

 

[Willie B]

… both of my grandmothers were born well in to the 1800s… Never knew my grandfathers… My mother’s father was a doctor went to see his patients and a high wheeled horse and buggy… My mother did our entire family tree… I would have to pull it out to see who else I knew from the 1800s… I am the eighth grade grandson of President Buchannan

 

[TonyFanelli]

Cool thread! Great grandfather born in 1878

 

[Ricks raft]

Grandmother was born in 1899, passed in 2001. 3 centuries. outlived all of her 8 kids except my father. Imagine the changes they lived thru like horse and buggy being common to the space shuttle…

 

[Aqualung]

Grandparents and great Aunts and Uncles. My Grandfather was in the balloon corp in WW1. Stories about their time during the great depression were amazing.

 

[Rajobigguy]

All of my grandparents and great aunts and uncles were born mid to late 1800s and I knew most of them pretty well.
On my father’s side they were all immigrants from Sweden, late 1800’s to early 1900’s.
On my mother’s side they are a mix of English, Scandinavian and Central European. They have been here since before the American Revolution.

 

[sonicss31]

Never really gave it much thought til now but all 4 of my grandparents were probably born in the 1890’s. They all passed on in the early 1970’s. I have faint recollections of them all. Interesting thread for sure.

 

[F.U.IRS]

I had two great grandmother's born in the late 1800's. One lived to 99 years old the other 95.

 

[dezrtracer]

My great grandma was born in 1891 in Germany and lived to be 105 yrs old . I remember her telling me with a heavy german accent when she was in her 80's that she saw so much in her life she was ready for the bone yard . Such a cool lady that hiked 5 miles every day from 70 to her early 90's in Yucca Valley . I never got to meet my great grandparents on my Dads side or my great grandpa on my mom's side .

 

[Orange Juice]

My grandmother was born in 1893. She had my dad at the age of 40. She lived until 1992. She passed when I was 30.

She came from an era that started with horse and Buggies. She taught school until she was 70. Her father was a small town Doctor, in a small Iowa town the railroad passed through.

She would tell us stories about how she would go shopping 40 miles away, by boarding a train in the morning, and catching another in the afternoon going back.

She also referred to World War I as the “The Great War”

 

[spectras only]

My Mom was born in 1904. Grandma died at age 90, Grandpa at 88, you do the math!