Last living grandson of the 10th American president John Tyler, a link with a bygone era, died at 96

The latest living grandson of the 10th American president John Tyler died at 96 – the end of a link with a bygone era of American history.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler died on Sunday evening on May 25, his family said in a statement at CBS News. His grandfather, born in 1790, left the oval office over 179 years ago, after having served from 1841 to 1845, long before the civil war. The immediate descendants of President Tyler lived in the modern era due to two generations of marriages at the end of the second much younger wives.

John Tyler, owner of Virginian slaves and Democrat for life, was vice-president of William Henry Harrison and became president Quite unexpectedly after Harrison Suddenly died Three weeks after its inauguration – the first president to die when he was in power.

At the time, the succession plans were not entirely established and Tyler initially hesitated to take over, according to to the National Constitution Center. He was sworn in in public on April 6, 1841, saying: “I am the president and I will be held responsible for my administration.”

John Tyler married twice and had 15 children – eight children with his first wife, Letitia, who died of a stroke, then seven others with his second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Who was 24 when they got married. He generated most of the second series of children in fifty and sixty; Her last child, a girl named Pearl, was born at the age of 70, according to At the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

Tyler’s 13th child, Lyon, was born when his father was 63 years old. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who served as President of William and Mary Collegealso married twice. With his second wife, Sue Ruffin Tyler, he had two sons born in the 1920s, while Lyon had in the 1970s Virginia encyclopedia.

One of these children was Harrison Ruffin Tyler.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler lived in Virginia and co-founded ChemTreat, an industrial water treatment company in 1968. He loved history and his place of birth, the county of Charles City, Virginie, said his family, which led to his work while preserving the forest of Sherwood, the president of the president of the war and a fortification Civilian nearby near the civil war forest nearby near the civil war forest near Sherwood

“We will remember him for his considerable charm, his generosity and his unwavering good humor by all those who knew him,” said Annique Dunning, executive director of Sherwood forestsaid in a press release.