image creditOn April 12, 1956, Samuel Seymour died. He was from Maryland and lived in Arlington, Virginia. Would you believe he had been present in Ford's Theater the night of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln? Or that Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes lived long enough to shake hands with both John Quincy Adams and John F. Kennedy? Or that President John Tyler has two grandsons who are still alive?
There are people who live long enough to create a link to figures from what feels like a distant past, and their presence among us shrinks history. When 'Long Ago' suddenly becomes 'So I said to him...,' long ago jumps closer.
(via Miss Cellania)The Presurfer
