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