# Most distant ancestor you've personally met **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2005, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-distant-ancestor-youve-personally-met/308354 "2005-06-15T08:45:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-distant-ancestor-youve-personally-met/308354/21 "2005-06-15T16:24:06Z")
All of my great-grandparents were dead before I was born, but I met my **great-great grandfather** once when I was 3 or 4 (which I don’t remember) and once when I was 9 (which I remember clearly.) He died a year later at age 104. He outlived 2 wives and worked as a farmer and blacksmith and lived alone until about age 101. I knew my great-great aunt well, who was sort of the equivolent of my great-grandmother because she raised my mom’s mom. She died when I was 13. I think she was about 94. ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-distant-ancestor-youve-personally-met/308354/22 "2005-06-15T17:08:59Z")
Well, I had this wacky adventure with a time machine that ended up with me meeting Adam and Eve . . . but its a long story and I have to run. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-distant-ancestor-youve-personally-met/308354/23 "2005-06-15T17:17:38Z")
As a little girl I met, and sort of remember, my maternal great-grandmother. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-distant-ancestor-youve-personally-met/308354.md?page=1)