How President Tyler, born in 1790, still has two living grandsons

Yeah, I'd gotten to see the Hermitage, the Andrew Jackson house, once when I was seeing a grad school I'd thought about going to near Nashville, I suppose that must've been pretty similar in a lot of ways....

Tyler died in in a hotel in Richmond in January of 1862. His family was afraid to take his body back to Sherwood Forest as Charles City was about to be occupied by the Union Army. So he was given a full military (CSA) funeral and was buried under the Confederate Flag in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. Along with President James Monroe and eventually Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

There are saber marks still on the stairway banisters left by Union Soldiers riding their horses up to the second floor. When they left they set the house on fire, but the slaves put the fire out before it could do too much damage.

At one time Sherwood Forest was the longest wood frame house in America.

Yeah, I'd seen stuff like that before, about, e.g., themVA still having Civil!War pensioners...total weirdsville....

Yeah, I figured you'd all get a kick outta that one....