Illinois couple celebrates birth of 100th grandchild

April 17, 2015: Leo and Ruth Zanger sit with their 100th grandchild, Jaxton Zanger, in Leo’s real estate office in Quincy, Ill. (AP)

An Illinois couple recently celebrated the birth of their 100^th grandchild.

Leo and Ruth Zanger of Quincy have 53 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. The birth of great-grandson Jaxton Leo on April 8 brought the number to 100.

Leo Zanger told The Quincy Herald-Whig that “the good Lord has just kept sending them.” He says his family “could start our own town.” Ruther Zanger says “there’s always room for one more.”

The Zangers have been married for 59 years and have 12 children over their own. The youngest, 31-year-old Joe, was already an uncle 10 times when he was born.

The paper reports that many of the family members currently have or at some point will work for the family real estate business

Most of the family lives in the Quincy area. When they get together, they rent a church hall and it takes 50 pounds of ham or 10 turkeys to feed everyone.

The paper notes that the “mandatory” get-togethers include Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report