I saw the question ask “Have you spoken to anyone born in the 1800s?”
My quick response was of course I have, My grandmother and great aunts and uncles. Then I realized there may be many on here that have not, so I’m asking if you have spoken to anyone born in the 1800s.
Only at a seance.
Yes, my great grandma’s sister was born in the 1890s and she was around when I was really young in the 1980s. I don’t remember talking to her but I’m sure I did. She lived right by us.
Yea, really, its possible I did talk to some when I was little but don’t remember it or have no idea who they would be.
My grandparents were born in the last years of that century. One was in Galveston during the Great Storm. She fell off a horse as the family was evacuating for higher ground. She was plucked out of the water by my great-grandfather, so she lived to tell me about it.
Not that i know of, I know one of my great Grandfathers was born in the 1800s, i did know one of my Great grandmothers but i don’t know when she was born
Yeah, my maternal great grandmother. My maternal grandmother was born in 1911, so my great grandmother was obviously born sometime in the late 1800s.
Spoke to her a few times that I can remember when I was about 5 or 6 years old. She was REALLY old and practically an invalid at the time. She died when I was six. Her funeral was the first I ever attended.
My grandmother was born in 1898 and lived to be 96. She was an awesome lady and saw the world go from horses and telegraphs to the space shuttle and the internet.
All of my Grandparents were born in 1890’s.
Loved talking with them. My Maternal Grandmother helped raise me.
They all were smart,and physically tough. Grew up on farms.
They survived WW 1, the Great Depression, WW11, and went from riding horse and buggies to cars, electricity and running water in homes, the atomic bomb, a man landing on the moon, movies, TV, on and on.
I consider them The Greatest Generation.
My grandma was tougher than your grandma 
Maybe we can lure pesik et al into an endless grandma argument!
To my knowledge I never met anyone born in the 1800’s.
For me (born in 1973) you have to go back to my great great grandparents to get into the 1800s.
On the other hand, both of my wife’s grandfathers were born in the 1870s/1880s… and my wife was younger than me by a few years. When she first told me that, I corrected her to say, you mean your great or great great grandparents. No… both my wife’s grandfathers were in their 60s/70s when my her parents were born in the 1930s and 1940s. Maybe not too surprising, but my wife never met any of her grandparents; they had all passed before she was born.
Quite a shame, as grandparents are pretty important people.
You should tell my pops that…
Straight from his lips… “I didn’t retire to babysit…”
One of many reasons I haven’t had kids…
That is truly a shame. Grandkids are a gift from God. We will be driving from Sugsrland to Ft. Riley tomorrow so we can see two of our Grandkids.
Just 2 my paternal grandfather and my paternal grandmothers mom the rest were already dead when I was born.
My paternal grandfather was born in 1898 and died in 1983. My maternal grandfather was born in 1906 in Oklahoma Territory and died in 1954 in a Houston asylum. I swear he was part of the MK Ultra program.
I talked to all of my grandparents who were born in 1892, 1895 and 1894. My great grandmother lived with us until she died in 1967. She was born in 1871. When she was four or five years old, her family had come from Alabama in a covered wagon, along with other families in wagons. . I don’t know the details but instead of waiting on a ferry boat to cross the Mississippi river, the men figured out how to float their wagons across instead of waiting a week or so to get their
spot on a ferry.When I was very young, we used to go visit an old woman who ran a boarding house where my parents lived when they first got married. She was born in 1861. There was an old man who lived across the street from my grandparents, that I don’t know what year he was born, but he fought in the Spanish American war.
I talked to my paternal grandfather who was born in 1899 when I was a kid in Chicago. He told me about being drafted as a teenager in WWI, for Austria. He and my Grandmother(1904) immigrated thru Ellis Island in the 1920’s. My maternal grandmother was born 1892 in Mississippi and I would spend a month or so with her there every summer until the early 1960’s.
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