| If this story is really true, the odds of it
ever happening again are probably about as good
as winning the lottery three weeks in a row. According
to a great genealogy book from 1858 (one that
appears to have been well-researched and a real
labor of love), there was a fellow in New England
who married and had a family of eight children.
After being married for more than forty years,
his wife died.
He then married a second time, at the age of
64, and had another family of eight children.
Having "eight children born after the
father had passed his sixty-fifth year" or
"the youngest born in his 79th year" or
having "twelve or more great-grandchildren
who were older than some of his children" is
certainly unusual, but more unlikely things have
happened and will happen again.
However, what is said to have happened on
April 27, 1806 seems impossible to ever have
happen again.
According to this 1858 book, on that day his
daughter Susanna (fourth child by his second
wife) was born. Also, his granddaughter Paulina
(daughter of Mary, youngest child by his first
wife) was born. Also, an unnamed great-grandchild
was born. The same Dr. Hart and his women
assistants were said to have attended all three
births.
What would the odds actually be of someone
having a daughter, a granddaughter, and a
great-grandchild all born on the same day?
Some of the surnames of descendants of this
statistically unique person in the Founders &
Patriots Family Forest include: Brown, Bucknam,
Call, Cummings, Day, Green, Larabee, Oakes,
Richardson, Rogers, Tuck, Vinton, White, and
Williams.
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