Get a load of this ancestor’s family. My 4th Great Grand Uncle, John Scalf, and his wife, Edeah Carlisle Scalf, had SIXTEEN children. Their children‘s number of children below:
Nancy = 5 children
Polly = 11 children
John = 14 children
Brittan = 19 children (Count ‘em, NINETEEN!!)
Dicey = 17 children
Lydia =5 children
Berry =8 children
Lee = 7 children
Ira = 7 children
Jesse = 8 children
Peter = 4 children
Betsy = 1 child
Robert = 6 children
Lela = 4 children
Two of John and Edea Scalf’s children died in infancy and had no children. As far as I can tell.
Edea had their first child in 1788 at the age of 18, their last child in 1823 at the age of 53.
I.
Cannot.
Imagine.
I am 53 NOW!
I’d kill.
No wonder all the women look old for their age in old pictures. 
Their grandchildren, assuming all lived, which is probably not likely, would have numbered 116 grandchildren!
I’m thinking of cooking Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinner for 132 people at one sitting. DAYS AND DAYS of cooking.
I am so glad I have an electric stove, crockpot, electricity, gas! I can’t imagine doing all that cooking without electricity, etc…..I’d give up before I started.
I have some aunts and uncles who married more than once, would have 10 children each marriage, but none of them, that I have seen records on, had that many grandchildren. WOW.
WOW!
Invents cooking
Shoot, I can’t even imagine cooking for 14 kids! Goodness.
I am in AWE!
It is really hard to imagine!
It is, isn’t it? Amazing. I thought it was a pain in the butt HELPING to cook thanksgiving dinner for about ten of us.
Little do I know. Makes my grumbling seem very, very, stupid. 
When you think about it we are related although very very very distantly!
Yep! Part of the reason that I have to trim my family tree down to 2000 people, from the 7300 I do have, is because WikiTree says that the further you go back in time the more people are related. Maybe I got my “strawberry blonde” hair and my two cousins their flaming red hair from the same people you did.
Howdy! This pic cracks me up! I have 4 kids and I taught them all to cook because I would be a crazy person if I hadn’t.
It is a great pic, isn’t it? I am the same way, lucky I cook for myself! LOL
If we keep hunting up our ancestors we may run into one we have in common someday! I have over 30 find a grave requests for cemeteries within a 60 mile radius of where I live, I need to get busy…..
I am sure we will. Found that my sister’s husband’s family married into both our mother and father’s families hundreds of years ago. We tease my sister about “marrying our dad”. Didn’t know about his family and ours until recently. We sure hit the nail on the head when teasing her about it. Unbeknownst to us. LOL What are some of your family names? I will make a post on just names in the family. More than I even KNEW about. Amazing.