Sandi, I hope I get more responses from the L-Garrard Gang, as I find this genealogical quirkinesses interesting. Your decuctions are good: My mother was last in the line, born when her mother was 43. I, however am the 1st of her 7, born when she was 26. She did have a child at age 40 which means my 50 year old sister has a grandfather b. in 1859. Now that really is impressive, I think. My grandmother was 20 but her husband was 30 when they married. I don't know how to look at those photos and don't have time, now. So, I hope Terry captured it on CD so we can all buy a copy and share. Sue Canavan ----- Original Message ----- From: <SandKatC@aol.com> To: <GARRARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [GARRARD] *Sue*Canavan* A brief biography. [Don't ask for the long version} > > In a message dated 6/17/03 8:59:37 PM, canavania@earthlink.net writes: > > << * I am curious. I seem to have grandparents born long before most of my > > contemporaries. Can anyone top this? > > My grandfather, Charles Chesley Stevinson, was born in MO in 1859. My > > grandmother b. in CA in 1869. >> > > Sue: > > WOW! Can't top that. My mothers father was born in 1873 and her mother in > 1882. My Daddy was born in 1902 and my mother in 1914. I don't know when > Daddy's parents were born. I haven't gotten around to researching much on that > side of my house. > > I'll bet that your mother was the last of the line. Your grandma could have > been around 40 when she had your mother. Then, your mother could have been > close to 40 when she had you. Am I close? > > Many of our old women had children until they went through the change. One > cousin had a child when her husband was 74 and he died not long after! Of > course, that was his last and 18th child! He had 9 by his first wife and that's > probably what put her in the grave. Then the other 9 probably helped put him > there! LOL > > Sandi > > > ==== GARRARD Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without permission of the author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy at > <http://www,rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html> > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >