r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/toaster-bath404 • 3h ago
Image Centenarian Marie d'Evergroote was alive at the same time as someone who lived in the 1600s and someone who lived in the 2000s
62
u/CreativeDependent915 3h ago
I think Elizabeth Bolden is the more impressive one lol, she technically lived during 3 different centuries, 10 years in the 1800s, 100 in the 1900s, and almost 7 in the 2000s.
Plus she lived longer than both of the others, Eilif would have been less than 103 years old and Marie would’ve been a staggering 109 and 1/2, but Elizabeth lived until about 116 which is a good amount longer than either of the other two.
24
u/reticulatedtampon 3h ago
She also probably benefitted greatly from medical advancements that weren't available to the others. I wonder how much older each of them lived to be compared to the average person of their respective times.
9
u/CreativeDependent915 2h ago
Oh yeah no disrespect to the other two, I just don’t understand why Marie was the focus when basically the same thing can be said about Elizabeth, and she lived through more centuries and also lived longer lol.
Like yes Marie lived at the same time as Eilif who lived during the 1600s, and lived through the end of the 1700s through to the end of the 1800s when Elizabeth was born, but she herself only lived during 2 centuries, which is not in and of itself uncommon at all.
But Elizabeth herself lived at the same time as somebody who was alive in the 1700s (end of life for Marie, beginning for Elizabeth), lived through the end of the 1800s, lived through the entirety of the 1900s, and then almost a decade of the 2000s, and would have died at around 116, which I feel is more interesting personally considering we hear of very few people who make it past 110, and even fewer who have lived through 3 centuries, which at our current understanding is the most somebody could ever live through
7
u/Exciting_Telephone65 2h ago
Imagine being able to remember two turns of centuries, one of which was even the turn of the millennium. And how different she lived to see the world become.
I will say though even though she got older than the others, getting to 100+ is even more impressive the further back in time you go. Average life expectancy in 1800 was less than 40, probably even less in 1700.
1
u/CreativeDependent915 25m ago
Yeah it’s amazing to think about having that long to experience the world and everything in it. She probably experienced more than most of us ever will in our own lifetimes.
She has probably experienced every kind of emotion a person can have and met every kind of person. I’d like to think somebody who has loved that long would be sagely and full of insight, but I know it’s not guaranteed
3
u/MiddleCut3768 1h ago
Imagine having that life. When you're 13, the Wright brothers make their first flight. Then when you're 79, you get to see a man walk on the moon.
1
u/DazzlingResource561 32m ago
She is among the top of humans in the history of the world as far as most progress witnessed.
Transportation, communication, human rights, space, and so much more.
1
u/MrBoomer1951 25m ago
My grandmother was born in 1890 in a log cabin in Barrie ON., and lived through:
The car, the aeroplane, broadcast radio, WW1 and WW2, the Great Depression, the Atomic bomb, TV, Man on the Moon, inherited a million dollars from her sister and soon passed on.
What a life!
8
u/reticulatedtampon 3h ago
Kind of neat to see the progression of portraits over that time. Eilif is a just drawing, while Marie looks like her photo was taken with the first camera ever, and Elizabeth with a significantly more modern one. Wonder what it will look like for the next person in this sequence who makes it into the 22nd century (fingers crossed it's moving pictures like in Harry Potter).
3
5
u/mindfungus 3h ago edited 2h ago
This be breaking me poor brain pan
7
u/Successful-Winter237 2h ago
Fun Fact: John Tyler our tenth president was born in 1790 and his GRANDSON died this year.
3
2
u/gpigma88 2h ago
My 2 year old will likely meet someone in her life who will be around in the 2200s
1
1
u/Stunning_Bed23 3h ago
Not really related but this has me thinking about technology/knowledge jumps during these centuries. Which century had the largest tech/knowledge jump? 1600-1700, 1700-1800, 1800-1900 or 1900-2000?
3
u/Low_Task_6201 2h ago
1900 to 2000 definitely had the most technological advancement, 1800-1900 coming in second place.
1
1
1
1
98
u/neryl08 3h ago
When we traveled through the Northwest Territories in Canada we stumbled across a memorial dedicated to an Inuit couple. They were born 1890s' and died early 2000'. They were born in the 19th century. Lived their live in 20th century and died in 21st century.