A last link with the past gone

Eleven years ago I posted Two grandsons of President John Tyler (1841-1845) are alive today.

I see in the news that it is the end of an era - Grandson of 10th US President John Tyler, who left the White House 180 years ago, dead at 96.

The grandson of the 10th President of the United States, John Tyler, has died at 96 — 180 years after his grandfather was last in the White House.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the son of President Tyler’s 13th child, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, died on Sunday evening at a Virginia nursing home, ending the last living link to an 18th-century presidential administration.

When he was born on Nov. 9, 1928, his father was 75 years old.

Having children into old age was a family trait, as President Tyler was 63 when Lyon was born.

President Tyler would go on to have two more children before he died in 1862 age 71.

A remarkable quirk of history.

I am not sure I knew this about John Tyler:

He fathered more children than any other American president, including eight with his first wife, Letitia Christian, and seven with his second, Julia Gardiner, whom he married in 1844 — two years after Letitia died of a stroke.

Read the whole thing for the full story of Harrison Ruffin Tyler and a life well lived.