Who here had the oldest parents?

[samhexum]

My dad will soon be coming up on his 114th birthday, though we haven't celebrated it since he died in 1992. He was 55 & my mom was 41 when I was born.

 

Can anyone beat that?

[+ MysticMenace]

Methuselah's dad, Enoch.

[samhexum]

Methuselah's dad, Enoch.

How do you know @marylander1940 's dad's name? ??

[marylander1940]

My dad will soon be coming up on his 114th birthday, though we haven't celebrated it since he died in 1992. He was 55 & my mom was 41 when I was born.

 

Can anyone beat that?

 

Damn... at that time a 41 y/o mom and a 55 y/o dad? You were a miracle!

 

Methuselah's dad, Enoch.

 

Bingo!

[samhexum]

Damn... at that time a 41 y/o mom and a 55 y/o dad? You were a miracle!

 

WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'WERE'?!?!?! ?

[+ MysticMenace]

Methuselah's dad, Enoch.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'WERE'?!?!?! ?

 

miracle definition: an amazing product or achievement, or an outstanding example of something.

 

so, where's the confusion? ?✌

[samhexum]

where's the confusion? ?✌

 

And the horse you rode in on, @JoeMendoza, and the horse you rode in on... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/and_the_horse_you_rode_in_on

[+ sniper]

Damn... at that time a 41 y/o mom and a 55 y/o dad? You were a miracle!

 

 

 

Bingo!

My mother did and so did my aunt. I have a cousin born 6 weeks earlier than me. My aunt was so embarrassed she got pregnant she didn't tell us until my cousin was born, then my mother let her know she was pregnant with me because she was embarrassed too.

Happened a lot in Catholic families once the Vatican got off the fence and declared the Pill a sin.

[marylander1940]

My mother did and so did my aunt. I have a cousin born 6 weeks earlier than me. My aunt was so embarrassed she got pregnant she didn't tell us until my cousin was born, then my mother let her know she was pregnant with me because she was embarrassed too.

Happened a lot in Catholic families once the Vatican got off the fence and declared the Pill a sin.

 

no need to bring the church to this subject.

 

I have a nice who gave birth at 46 after 2 years of treatments and insemination.

 

I simply said it was unusual at that time (without the treatments we have now) for a woman to get pregnant (in a natural way) at 41 by someone who was 55.

 

That's all

[marylander1940]

Methuselah's dad, Enoch.

 

 

miracle definition: an amazing product or achievement, or an outstanding example of something.

 

so, where's the confusion? ?✌

 

miracle as in unusual.

[samhexum]

I simply said it was unusual at that time (without the treatments we have now) for a woman to get pregnant (in a natural way) at 41 by someone who was 55.

Who said anything my parents allegedly did in their bedroom was natural? SHUDDER!!! :oops::oops:

[+ Lucky]

My parents were older than me.

[+ Charlie]

My father would have celebrated his 115th birthday last week. My mother was two years older than he was. However, since I am a lot older than you are, they were not as old when I was born as yours were when you were born. The last birthday my mother celebrated was her 102nd.

[Rudynate]

Damn... at that time a 41 y/o mom and a 55 y/o dad? You were a miracle!

 

My grandfather was born when his father was 61, in 1885. The father, himself, was born in 1824. There's a family plot in a tiny country cemetery in western New York. The cemetery has a number of vets from the War of 1812.

 

One of the major disappointments of my grandmother's life is that the DAR wouldn't take her as a member because she couldn't document an ancestor that was part of the Revolution.

[Luv2play]

I was reading about Charles Lindbergh last night and he fathered 7 children in his 50s and into his late 60s with three women who were his mistresses in Germany. Hitler would have been so proud of him. Lol.

[+ WilliamM]

Damn... at that time a 41 y/o mom and a 55 y/o dad? You were a miracle!

 

 

 

 

 

Lucille Ball was 41 years old when Desi Arnaz, Junior was born (and little Ricky the same day on "I Love Lucy.').

[Lchnsf]

My dad is currently 97 and my mom is 89. My mom’s birthday is in July, my dad in August. So far it looks like they wii each be here a while.

[marylander1940]

My grandfather was born when his father was 61, in 1885. The father, himself, was born in 1824. There's a family plot in a tiny country cemetery in western New York. The cemetery has a number of vets from the War of 1812.

 

One of the major disappointments of my grandmother's life is that the DAR wouldn't take her as a member because she couldn't document an ancestor that was part of the Revolution.

 

[+ WilliamM]

no need to bring the church to this subject.

 

I have a nice who gave birth at 46 after 2 years of treatments and insemination.

 

I simply said it was unusual at that time (without the treatments we have now) for a woman to get pregnant (in a natural way) at 41 by someone who was 55.

 

That's all

 

Not unusual. My dad's two sisters had kids after age 40, one of the sisters had twins (it runs in the family).

[marylander1940]

My grandfather was born when his father was 61, in 1885. The father, himself, was born in 1824. There's a family plot in a tiny country cemetery in western New York. The cemetery has a number of vets from the War of 1812.

 

One of the major disappointments of my grandmother's life is that the DAR wouldn't take her as a member because she couldn't document an ancestor that was part of the Revolution.

 

 

Besides flexing, are you considering donating your sperm?

 

Dad at 61!

[CuriousByNature]

Back in the late 1980s I met a woman who was about 80 years old. Her mother had her at 50, around 1910. And her mother was born to a father in his 70s. So this woman I met had a grandfather who was born in the late 1780s. He died long before she was born, but the three generations spanned more than 200 years.

[+ sniper]

Two grandchildren of the 10th US president, John Tyler, are alive today. He was born in 1790.

[+ Charlie]

I knew one of my great-aunts, who was born during the Civil War. Both of my grandfathers could remember President Grant.

[Whitman]

Two grandchildren of the 10th US president John Tyler are alive today. He was born in 1790.

Not anymore. The elder of the two died last October, but his younger brother, Harrison Tyler, born in 1928, is still alive.

 

President John Tyler's grandson, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., dies 175 years after his grandfather left the White House - CNN

 

President Tyler died in 1862 at 71, when his 13th child (born to his much younger second wife) was nine years old. That son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who died in 1935 at 81, also had a much younger second wife and, with her, sons born in the 1920s.

[Epigonos]

Were my parents still alive by father would be 120 and my mother 116. My father died in 1982 at 82. Dad was an alcoholic, though not a drunk. He drank a pint of bourbon and a six-pack of beer a day and smoked three packs of Luck Strikes. Considering his drinking and smoking it's damn near a miracle that he lived as long as he did. My mother died in 1995 at 91. She neither drank, to excess, nor smoked and she ate well. My father was 40 and my mother was 36 when I was born.

P.S. My maternal grandfather, who I barely knew, was born on the family farm in Virginia during the Civil War.

Edited February 19, 2021 by Epigonos