Lived long enough to see the beginning and ending of the: Revolutionary War Barbary Wars War Of 1812 Mexican-American War Civil War Experienced quite a bit of early American history
@@lyndseyrobinson7491 actually in my belief it is correct because the Bible says so because Noah and the ark was actually like around 600 years old when he made the ark so there is proof that the did live longer in the earliest years😊
Samuel whittemore was the oldest known veteran of the revolutionary war. Born in 1696 but i bet he met some people born in the 1500s when he was really young
@@justinaccount9920i doubt it. Let's say met as in, he can have some conversation with them, he must have been at least 6 years old, so 1702, even if you were born in 1599, you would be 103 years old, i doubt a lot of people even manged to reach 70 in those times, let alone 103.
I remember about 5 years ago a documentary looking into fraud cases of children receiving their fathers veteran benefits and there were still at least 10 people Alive receiving benefits from their fathers serving in the civil war
@@DaemonTargaryen13 the boy was for little children the last known civil war veteran was like 14 to 17 years old at that time it was not old enough to actually hold gun the drummer boy was one of the most important jobs and the union line same with the flag-bearer the drummer boy help signal where to go when to retreat or when to March the next time you call a drummer boy the dumbest job maybe learn about the history first
It’s kinda surreal to think about how he saw what was before this country, the beginning of this country, and the division and later reunification of America during the civil war. I wonder how he felt when the war broke out knowing the sacrifice he and his father made to the country.
This man saw the colonies he saw the Revolutionary War in the birth of America he saw the War of 1812 he saw the Antebellum Period and the American Civil War. This guy's World changed so much
@@justinaccount9920exactly. We have fallen very far from what American once were. The US Constitution is basically just a piece of shit paper to 99.8% of politicians.
Wish there were people alive today like him. His father died in the revolutionary war, and lived to see the Civil War to its completion. What a patriot!
That wonderful acreage "given" was usually adjacent to (or within) the "Indian Territories" and seen as a buffer against them. Neat deal, just put Vets right there on the borders.
My friend who is a vet is paid $3500 a month....He does have PTSD pretty bad. He is kind of nutty now but I'm happy for him. he is living a pretty good life now
That’s crazy for someone that was in the American revolution and lived a long life to see or hear about the American Civil War Or someone to see or hear about George Washington all the way to see or hear about Abraham Lincoln that’s crazy?!?!
The fact that he was alive for 104 years makes me shocked. It was insanely hard to be a century old in the 1700s-1900s. Heck, the average lifespan in the 1830s was around 32 because of how common diseases were with no cure.
If you really think about it, he was alive when George Washington was in office as the 1st president and he died when Ulysses Grant was in office as the 18th president!
My great great… (idk how many greats) grandfather was Stephen Williams. Fought in the revolutionary war, the war of 1812 and the Texas revolution. The last one he fought in at his 70s because he didn’t want his grandsons to go off and fight without him. He lays at rest in the Arlington now after having his body moved from Jasper. I hope y’all learn about your ancestors because they can teach us much.
My ancestors were Quakers so they didn't fight. But William Harvey on 9/11/1777 lead Washington's troops in retreat that night. Washington had lost the Battle of the Brandywine and almost lost the war that day. It was the biggest battle between the British and the Continental Army.
damn that man fought in the Revolutionary War, probably saw and met some of our founding fathers, lived through the Napoleonic wars, war of 1812, and the Civil War
Napoleonic Wars though was not an America war. Although Napoleon had planned to invade America until his troops in Haiti started dying of yellow fever.
This man lived to see the Revolutionary War, Shay's Rebellion, the ratification of the constitution, the Napoleonic Wars & War of 1812, the Mexican-American War AND the Civil War. Just imagine the stories he was able to tell his kids, grandkids and great-grandkids.
One of my distant great grandfathers fought in the Revolutionary War under General George Washington. He later moved to Missouri and drew a pension for his military service which was very small and only after he got older and needed medical help.
My Grandma was born in 1906. She saw WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the First Gulf War. 5 big wars. This guy saw 2. It's obvious when war became profitable to a few.
My father told me that we are direct descendants of John Gray. I don't know if it is true, but my great grandfather Thomas Madison Gray was born in Noble County, Ohio in 1850.
Bro lived 100 years in a time where modern medicine did not exist. A time where a simple infection was permanent because we did not have antibiotics till like the 1920’s. This guy lived a long life compared to everybody else at that time lol.
He was one of the great patriots who fought against the most powerful empire in history and they did it with muskets and sheer determination and courage to form our great nation!
Not only did he see the revolutionary war, the war of 1812 and civil war he was alive to see the 13th amendment get ratified and almost lived long enough to see the 14th amendment
There’s a couple of those actually, specifically US Presidents as far as my knowledge goes John Quincy Adams (6th American President) was born in 1767 & had his picture taken between 1843-1848 Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) got his picture taken the year he died Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) John Tyler (1790-1862) first natural born US citizen to become President (got his picture between 1860-1862) James K. Polk (1795-1849) First sitting President to get his picture taken just before he left office & died Zachary Taylor (1787-1850) Picture taken before his Presidency And the last US President born in the 18th century was James Buchanan (1791-1868)
I met a woman who was close to 100 when I was about 7. She remembered the boys marching home in a parade after the Civil War when she was my age. I knew there had to be somebody who was in the Revolutionary War when she was young. The Revolutionary War was only 3 long generations ago. I'm 75 and I was in the war in Vietnam. When I get to be 100, I'll have to tell some kid the whole story.
They really love to make people think that. That was only in the highly urban areas in the Medieval period. One thing they really don't teach you these days is that in the same way our "life expectancy" is around 75 today, for a lot of Native Americans before the influx here it was around 125 years old. Tough to get information on that now, though. Just like it's tough to get information on Chinese dudes living to be over 200.
John Gray is my 5x great grandfather on my mother's side. There is a memorial for him in Noble County as well as an exhibit my uncle assisted with at the Noble County Historical Society in Caldwell, Ohio. :)
Imagine that this man was a veteran of a war that created the US. Amazing and my sister had a friend who was a descendant of a Revolutionary War veteran.
I’m surprised you call it “The Revolutionary War.” That’s what Americans call it. I always here British people call it “America’s War for Independence.”
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Damn he lived long enough to see the Civil War begin AND end. Must've been quite the experience
Lived long enough to see the beginning and ending of the:
Revolutionary War
Barbary Wars
War Of 1812
Mexican-American War
Civil War
Experienced quite a bit of early American history
Napoleonic war
Pretty much anyone who lived to be 80-90 yrs old in the mid 1800s are pretty legendary people of history
@@ramonvazquez1045That's not even part of America, Wrong Geographical Location
@@ninja1676I know I'm just saying that he was alive
He saw the birth and divide of a nation.
And a Reunion
And growth
@@bushwacker4262
"reunion"?
*Conquering/Subjugation
@@attackmaster519
The southern states rejoined the union. So, yes...reunion.
Dumfuk
@@attackmaster519confederate tears taste sweet
That was a highly unusual life expectancy back in the day.
Hell it's a highly unusual life expectancy today. Reality is only a small percentage people even reach 100 in modern times with modern medicine.
@@mikebelcher7720 tell me about it. I lost my best friend at Christmas last year. Guy was only 50.
@John McAlister Dumbest thing I've read in a long time. Life expectancy was significantly shorter back then and that is an indisputable fact.
@John McAlister ehm. No. Not correct at all.
@@lyndseyrobinson7491 actually in my belief it is correct because the Bible says so because Noah and the ark was actually like around 600 years old when he made the ark so there is proof that the did live longer in the earliest years😊
As a child he met men and women from the 1600’s!
his dads grandpa or great grandpa was probley one of those people
@@justinaccount9920 Born in 1764 , he definitely met people from the late 1600’s when he was a child.
Samuel whittemore was the oldest known veteran of the revolutionary war. Born in 1696 but i bet he met some people born in the 1500s when he was really young
and those people probably met people from late 1500s
@@justinaccount9920i doubt it.
Let's say met as in, he can have some conversation with them, he must have been at least 6 years old, so 1702, even if you were born in 1599, you would be 103 years old, i doubt a lot of people even manged to reach 70 in those times, let alone 103.
This man fought in the revolution and lived through the Napoleonic and civil wars that's insane.
And French Revolution from 1789 to 1799
And there is a photo of him 🤯
@@CarlosAlejandro.-ke6grespecially since he was a man of simple means. Pics of men if his class were rare for a few decades after his death.
don’t forget the mexican american war
And the war of 1812. The steam engine, too.
The Last from the Civil War died when I was about 7 / 8 years old, in 1956. He was a drummer boy for the South.
Amazing….2 people bridging all the way to the Revolutionary War in the 1700’s.
I remember about 5 years ago a documentary looking into fraud cases of children receiving their fathers veteran benefits and there were still at least 10 people Alive receiving benefits from their fathers serving in the civil war
Ahh a drummer boy for the losers
@@DaemonTargaryen13 the boy was for little children the last known civil war veteran was like 14 to 17 years old at that time it was not old enough to actually hold gun the drummer boy was one of the most important jobs and the union line same with the flag-bearer the drummer boy help signal where to go when to retreat or when to March the next time you call a drummer boy the dumbest job maybe learn about the history first
The last civil war veteran did not serve for the Confederacy he served for the Union
Fought in the Revolutionary War at 16 and lived another 90 years. What a life I'm sure it was.
WW2 German veteran
Guy was just 11 years younger than Napoléon Bonaparte.
If he was 104 in 1868 that would set his birth in 1764 making him 5 years older than Napoleon
Damn bro really saw the first chunk of the country’s history
Nah, he was the first chunk of the country’s history
Seafood 🦞🍤🦞🍤🦞
@@shaynewheeler9249 ??
WW2 German veteran
It’s kinda surreal to think about how he saw what was before this country, the beginning of this country, and the division and later reunification of America during the civil war. I wonder how he felt when the war broke out knowing the sacrifice he and his father made to the country.
@@StormyWolf66 u are ignoring the fact that this guy is called hard cum💀
@@StormyWolf66What do you think
@@StormyWolf66smooth brain response
@@StormyWolf66he was born during the colonial era. Fool.
Rice 🍚🌾 and cheese
This man saw the colonies he saw the Revolutionary War in the birth of America he saw the War of 1812 he saw the Antebellum Period and the American Civil War. This guy's World changed so much
Fought in literal war and lived to 104 STILL. Blessed.
Only if he could see his self today on CZcams
If only he could see the US now, he wouldn't have bothered.
That's the best response I've heard in a long time
@@cplcabs It beats the condition of the UK now. And y'all still lost.
@@cplcabs nah he would probley be dissapointed in modern U.S. citizens
@@justinaccount9920exactly. We have fallen very far from what American once were. The US Constitution is basically just a piece of shit paper to 99.8% of politicians.
Wish there were people alive today like him. His father died in the revolutionary war, and lived to see the Civil War to its completion. What a patriot!
John Gray is my (5x) great grandfather and he was also one of the last known companions of George Washington.
The fact that you have a war veteran as a great great great great great great grandfather is cool.
@@tommat72 I’m so proud!
I’ve never verified it but I’ve heard that I am related to John Gray.
With makes sense because I am from Michigan and I believe I have relatives that live in Ohio
@@masongray745 do you happen to know by which of his three children?
He couldve met the little boy that eventually went on that tv show in the 1950's and talked about anraham lincoln getting killed
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The ultimate veteran Thank you to your service to our country...😔
Makes you realise just how young the US is as a nation.
yet achieved so much success and spreading
@@Buydaa.M like a plague
@@Zauchi hollow skull reply
@@ZauchiPlague?
China you mean
@@Zauchi💀
What a patriot thank you and God bless this man🇺🇲
He probably settled on land that was given to veterans after the war . Back then they respected and rewarded veterans unlike now .
That wonderful acreage "given" was usually adjacent to (or within) the "Indian Territories" and seen as a buffer against them. Neat deal, just put Vets right there on the borders.
Land stolen from the natives!
@Nortius Maximus thr us gub'ment has ALWAYS been BIG PETTY!
Nuh uh
My friend who is a vet is paid $3500 a month....He does have PTSD pretty bad. He is kind of nutty now but I'm happy for him. he is living a pretty good life now
He is hero. I wish to thank him for his service to the nation.
And apologize for what it has become
He committed treason.
Now…..he’s considered a racist.
@@ynottttalmost as if the world has changed since 200 years ago you nit
@@tfwamirite2366 ….Yes, 195 and a hero, the last 5 as racist. It’s astonishing stupidity.
Bro is the definition of 👴🏻. Respect 🫡
all respect to the veterans who served in the revolutionary war. they fought for the freedom we have today. if you see a veteran say you thanks.
Living over 100 is a miracle today, but to live to over 100 back then? Man was built different.
Less people and less disease and better foods all helped
It's amazing there is a photo of him
Reminds me of the last surviving witness of the Lincoln assassination, who went on the show 'I've got a secret' in the 50s
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i wish i could talk to this man
Then you wouldn't be alive today and you wouldn't be able to share this comment
@@ninja1676 id rather live back then, instead of this shitty era
You want to live in The Long XIX Century?
@@WALAHIA. ehh more like 18th century
@@justinaccount9920 No I prefer XIX Century because it was beautiful
I grew up in Port Chester, New York, next to White Plains!!
My grandma used to own a home on battle hill in white plains basically I been to where he died I guess😂
We must give you a medal.
I guess.
@@joedias7946
Geez Louise!
The expression on his face says it all.
Exactly
I am a direct decendant of Joseph Whatford which was a Revolutionary War veteran. He lived to be 103. Buried in Houston County AL.
The traumatic gaze. You see it there.
Respect Wow!!! Serious thank you for your service.
Imagine what he would’ve thought during 1861. 81 years before he fighting in the Revolution and the country he fought to unite tore itself apart
That’s crazy for someone that was in the American revolution and lived a long life to see or hear about the American Civil War Or someone to see or hear about George Washington all the way to see or hear about Abraham Lincoln that’s crazy?!?!
He lived long enough to see America in a civil war and too abolish slavery
Thank you John Grey for your service. I enjoy the privileges & rights you fought for. An American Hero.
Gray
The fact that he was alive for 104 years makes me shocked. It was insanely hard to be a century old in the 1700s-1900s. Heck, the average lifespan in the 1830s was around 32 because of how common diseases were with no cure.
It’s 32 because of infant mortality, if you take that away it’s around 55-65
@@heyokasamurai453exactly
My great grandma passed away at 104 was a teacher in great depression in one room school house in Nebraska
Thank you for your service
If you really think about it, he was alive when George Washington was in office as the 1st president and he died when Ulysses Grant was in office as the 18th president!
Not to mention the Stamp Act Congress president, all the Continental congress presidents and Articles of Confederation president.
Small Correction: Ulysses Grant was inaugurated on March 4, 1869 and John died in 1868. So Andrew Johnson (17th President) was in office when he died
@@chriskennedy3220 sure bur John would have known Brant was going to be President
@@nicholassturges3497 John died in March 1868. The 1868 Election wasn’t held until November of that year
Today's technology it's truly amazing
God bless his soul!
Man got to see the entire American Revolution and the ENTIRE CIVIL WAR
My GREAT-grandmother was borned in 1861 and died in 1970. She was 109 RIP to my great grandmother
Thank you for your service!
My great great… (idk how many greats) grandfather was Stephen Williams. Fought in the revolutionary war, the war of 1812 and the Texas revolution. The last one he fought in at his 70s because he didn’t want his grandsons to go off and fight without him. He lays at rest in the Arlington now after having his body moved from Jasper. I hope y’all learn about your ancestors because they can teach us much.
My ancestors were Quakers so they didn't fight. But William Harvey on 9/11/1777 lead Washington's troops in retreat that night. Washington had lost the Battle of the Brandywine and almost lost the war that day. It was the biggest battle between the British and the Continental Army.
That dude saw some serious shit in his life.
I want to read this man's memoirs
God Bless the U.S.A.!
Amazing. My wife's great great grandfather (don't know how many times the great is, lol), was a LT COL under General George Washington.
And my Great to the 5th Grandfather was LT COL under Genghis Khan. His War journal has crazy adventures. 🤯
@@nekkoskrilla6750 jelly are we? You sure got me!
He was doing ppl bad back then I bet
@@mikebee224 British people, sure.
@@AnthraciteHorrorStories Yeah. ok
Crazy man! Stop an think.. that was just 3 generations ago…. 3 people!!!!!!!! Nuts man
Extraordinary, we can actually see a picture of an American revolution soldier.
RIP 💐 🙏 ❤ 🕊
damn that man fought in the Revolutionary War, probably saw and met some of our founding fathers, lived through the Napoleonic wars, war of 1812, and the Civil War
Napoleonic Wars though was not an America war. Although Napoleon had planned to invade America until his troops in Haiti started dying of yellow fever.
It's crazy what the older generations went through rip to him
Just amazing....may he and his father rest in peace....Y
This man lived to see the Revolutionary War, Shay's Rebellion, the ratification of the constitution, the Napoleonic Wars & War of 1812, the Mexican-American War AND the Civil War. Just imagine the stories he was able to tell his kids, grandkids and great-grandkids.
If One of His Great-Grandkids Lived the Length of him and were born in 1868. They would have Lived until 1972!
And the invention of the Slurpee at 7-11.
Talk about being present at pivotal moments! Wow!
One of my distant great grandfathers fought in the Revolutionary War under General George Washington. He later moved to Missouri and drew a pension for his military service which was very small and only after he got older and needed medical help.
Same old story how America treats it's vets. Die for the country, but if you ever need us when you're dying, you're on your own.
John Gray and Albert Woolsen (Last surviving civil war veteran, died in 1956) both made passed 100 and saw multiple wars end
He wasn't 190 yrs old da
@@bradmarkell12167 albert woolsen was 105
@@DW.66 not according to Dash's #s
And so will the last of the WWII survivors.
My Grandma was born in 1906. She saw WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the First Gulf War. 5 big wars. This guy saw 2. It's obvious when war became profitable to a few.
He also saw the war of 1812, the mexican-american war and several wars against the native Americans, so not just 2.
@@logansechrist3672 you're correct but there is some truth to what he's saying, I think somewhere after world war II wars started to become for profit
She's still alive?
There’s six, actually. Revolution, 1812, Michigan-Ohio, Texas, Mexico, and Civil. Those are just the ones that come to mind for me.
@@logansechrist3672 Let’s not forget the Ohio-Michigan War.
From 1780 to 1880 is pretty wild but 1880 to 1980 would be even crazier
My father told me that we are direct descendants of John Gray. I don't know if it is true, but my great grandfather Thomas Madison Gray was born in Noble County, Ohio in 1850.
He even Saw The Start And the End of The War of 1812!
Actually, Daniel F Bakeman lived to 109
He was born October 9 1759
And he died April 5 1869
Bro lived 100 years in a time where modern medicine did not exist. A time where a simple infection was permanent because we did not have antibiotics till like the 1920’s. This guy lived a long life compared to everybody else at that time lol.
A man of Scottish Stock.
This man saw so many classic eras of horses come and go. I wonder if he met Steve Jobs' grandmother
Imagine he was old enough to possibly know someone born in the mid to late 1600s who possibly knew someone born in the late 1500s and so forth.
Love your work ... amazing footage and history behind history
He was one of the great patriots who fought against the most powerful empire in history and they did it with muskets and sheer determination and courage to form our great nation!
Bruce Dern is still alive and hasn't aged a day.
Did he fight in the Revolution ?
Talk about an American Hero!! God Bless You and RIP Mr Gray!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Not only did he see the revolutionary war, the war of 1812 and civil war he was alive to see the 13th amendment get ratified and almost lived long enough to see the 14th amendment
rest in peace
They lived long then because there was no genetically modified food,they lied to us about that to that people did not live long back then.
At least we finally saw someone from the 18th century
There’s a couple of those actually, specifically US Presidents as far as my knowledge goes
John Quincy Adams (6th American President) was born in 1767 & had his picture taken between 1843-1848
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) got his picture taken the year he died
Martin Van Buren (1782-1862)
John Tyler (1790-1862) first natural born US citizen to become President (got his picture between 1860-1862)
James K. Polk (1795-1849) First sitting President to get his picture taken just before he left office & died
Zachary Taylor (1787-1850) Picture taken before his Presidency
And the last US President born in the 18th century was James Buchanan (1791-1868)
@@iDeathMaximuMII good to know bro I can look em up did you see these people faces
I met a woman who was close to 100 when I was about 7. She remembered the boys marching home in a parade after the Civil War when she was my age. I knew there had to be somebody who was in the Revolutionary War when she was young. The Revolutionary War was only 3 long generations ago. I'm 75 and I was in the war in Vietnam. When I get to be 100, I'll have to tell some kid the whole story.
Enlisted as soon as he could after his father died when he was 12
I thought everyone died at 35 back then because they didn't have pharmaceuticals...
They really love to make people think that.
That was only in the highly urban areas in the Medieval period. One thing they really don't teach you these days is that in the same way our "life expectancy" is around 75 today, for a lot of Native Americans before the influx here it was around 125 years old. Tough to get information on that now, though. Just like it's tough to get information on Chinese dudes living to be over 200.
Probably the hardest thing back then was survive the childhood,my grandfather was born in 1897 and lived to see the 2000s .
@@gratefulguy4130 ¡!!¡!!!!!¡
The war for independence ....
him living through the civil war as a revolution vet is just as amazing as seeing recordings of civil war vets in 1929 talking about the war!
My granny was born in 1908, but passed on in the early 90s.
Alot of people lived to be 100 it's hard to find that these days food is no more good
Not true.
No life expectancy was much shorter back then
His expression says it all.
Thank you for your service.
Dude, your bro unearthed a piece of ANCIENT history!
Amazing .And i beleive the last civil war soldier from 61 /65 war died in the 50s..I mean he has gone from horse and cart to jet planes in his life.
We need more black ww2 veterans accounts of the war man . ❤ these people were treated like trash . It’s time we get to see them speak
John Gray is my 5x great grandfather on my mother's side. There is a memorial for him in Noble County as well as an exhibit my uncle assisted with at the Noble County Historical Society in Caldwell, Ohio. :)
I guess he would be amused at the statues being pulled down ?
Insane he lived through the civil war as well would be super interesting to hear what his stance was
Amazing life filled with memories !!
If he was around in the 1700s he must have sound like an Englishman
he saw locomotives telegraphs Louisiana purchase expansion all the way to the West coast besides other wars crazy that perspective in history
Imagine that this man was a veteran of a war that created the US. Amazing and my sister had a friend who was a descendant of a Revolutionary War veteran.
I’m surprised you call it “The Revolutionary War.” That’s what Americans call it. I always here British people call it “America’s War for Independence.”
We call it both
Looks like John black and white
it's so cool to get to see someone from that time
My 4th great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was also at Yorktown. It was amazing to visit that place!
Gray looks majestic