The only photos taken of American Revolutionary War veterans

[Daniel Stone]

One was stationed near my home town. I'm not seeing many spectacles/glasses. Good genes.

Or they were already blind, so did not require any further image enhancement

[goamules]

Generations can stretch far beyond the average 20 years, if a man marries a much younger woman late in life (common until recently), and the woman has children. A 50 or 60 year old man marrying a 20 year old was common a hundred years ago. If he fought at 20 the last year of the Revolution, 1783, he would be 60 in 1823. If he had a child that year it would be 60 in 1883. If that person had a child that year, it would be 60 in 1943. That person's child could still be alive. So it's possible for someone's great grandfather to have fought in the Revolution. When my dad was young in the 1940s, he talked to great aunts and such that were children of Civil War vets. Used to be WWI vets were the "old men" of the town, and the WWII were the middle aged dads and Boy Scout leaders. Time marches on, but our country really isn't that old.

[Alan Klein]

It would be neat to see photos of Washington and some of the other patriots.

[goamules]

Washington died in 1799, Jefferson in 1826. Photography was invented about 13 years later.

[Bob Salomon]

Washington died in 1799, Jefferson in 1826. Photography was invented about 13 years later.

Don’t forget, both Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, July 4, 1826!

[Willie]

It is interesting but asserting " Elias and his photographer, Nelson Augustus Moore, managed to snap the only photographs ever taken of anyone that participated in the War for Independence."

We don't know if some other photographer took any. Just as before her "discovery" we did not know of Vivian Maier. There may well be a few old images somewhere waiting to be discovered.

[smrtysusan]

All of those guys lived more than 100 years?


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They all made a century through age