Why the suicide and when?
DSH
"John Brandon" <starbuck95@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> Just for the fun of it, mine:
>> 1848-1924
>> 1856-1885
>> 1844-1921
>> 1857-1951 (second wife)
>> 1864-1935
>> 1861-1932
>> 1858-1944
>> 1867-1956
>>
>> I may have met the last one, but was too young at the time to
>> remember.
>> (1861-1932 is also the youngest sibling of 1844-1921.)
>>
>> I have a friend, age 50, who has a living grandparent and also a
>> sibling with grandchildren: five generations alive at once.
>
> My great-grandfather born 1850 was the son of a man born in 1813, so
> one of my great-greats was born almost 200 years ago (he was the one
> who thoughtfully committed suicide downstairs in his Iowa farmhouse
> while the wifey and fourteen children were sleeping upstairs).
