My neighbour is a fifty year old guy and his grandfather was born in the 1860's. Both the grandfather and father had kids with much younger women. Funny how we're closer to the past than we think.
I really love this recording[0] from 1941 of a photographer born in 1843, talking about the American West. It's one of Youtube's many gems.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ab5nv4Suc (video)
His Grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler (Born November 9, 1928), is still alive today.
It makes me wonder - who is the oldest "directly-known" person? Maybe there's a better term for this. What I mean is, of all of the currently-living people, who is the person that one of them actually met who was born the earliest?
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercentenarian#Incidence
Seems to be the rule used in Coco.