Associated Press

CHARLES CITY, Va. — Harrison Ruffin Tyler , the last living grandson of U.S. President John Tyler born 83 years after his grandfather left the White House in 1845, died. He was 96.

Tyler died May 25; the cause of his death was not immediately released. John Tyler was 63 years old when Harrison Tyler’s father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr., was born. And Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 when his father was 75 years old and his presidential grandfather had been dead for more than 60 years.

Harrison Tyler was known for preserving his grandfather’s plantation and nearby Civil War fort. In a statement, Annique Dunning, the executive director of Sherwood Forest , a national landmark of President Tyler’s residence, said the president’s grandson, whose brother died in

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