Khornet is ancient

[Goatwhiskers]

Smokey, it might be creeping senility if you marry the mother of your father's wife. GW

 

[KHornet]

Tony, the link is between age and senility (and maybe insanity as well).

 

[smokeywolf]

"I'm My Own Grandpa", with lyrics

 

[Ian]

So you only have to be a little more than 23....

This sounds like a family down the road from me. The oldest daughter and her husband of 16 years became grandparents at 32, and by 35 had four grandchildren. I think there are six generations on the ground right now, and multiple copies of each, kind of like a rat colony. Two sisters each married brothers and one brother married the brother's sister, leaving only one sister and one brother from each family that married into other families. It makes the aunt-uncle-cousin thing very complicated.

 

[Rick]

Hhmmm . . . Is that a Texas thing?

 

[Brad]

I thought it was an Arkansas thing. Well, for natives at least.

That family would drive a DNA tester nuts. They pretty much would all test the same.

 

[KHornet]

Smoky, not to sound ancient, "I'm my own Grandpa", was a new song when I was
a kid, of about 65 or so years ago. It has been recycled numerous times over the
years.

Paul

 

[RBHarter]

I worked with a guy who had some greats and grands like that . A farmer married in 1858 in Alabama and he and his wife had 2 kids before he and his best friend went to war . He didn't make it home but his buddy did and to keep the farm ,unmarried women not being allowed at that time to own land , he assumed the husband role and later they had 2 children . The wife died in some disease event in 1872 leaving the buddy husband 4 kids to raise from 9-2 . He remarried under his given name but kept the farmers name . They had 2 kids by 1878 and not long after died of an infection . The oldest son kept his step mother on to raise his youngest siblings . She was the only mother the 3 youngest had ever known so it made sense . She married and had 2 children and lived out her life in a 2nd home on the farm .

What this leaves is 8 kids all half siblings and the oldest and youngest pairs aren't related except by the 4 halves in the middle .
It made his geneogly interesting.

 

[Ian]

That reminds me of the story of our family having the original George Washington tomahawk. It was the original one, all right, passed down through the generations but during various periods tools in the family were scarce and it got worn out. Lore has it that the handle has been replaced nine times and the head at least twice.

 

[358156 hp]

Is there a direct link between age and insanity?

Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children. And her husband

 

[smokeywolf]

Smoky, not to sound ancient, "I'm my own Grandpa", was a new song when I was
a kid, of about 65 or so years ago. It has been recycled numerous times over the
years.

I spent a good bit of my childhood in the company of adults. I remember Mom and Dad talking about that song back in the late '50s or early '60s.

 

[KHornet]

I remember it from the late 40's or early 50's. Has much more class than:
Grandma got run over by a raindeer! IMO.

Paul

 

[35 shooter]

Ancient people are cool actually. They know a lot of "stuff"!!!