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DrewWilson said:On my dad's side, I'm related to Pocahontas (I have a family tree that traces it all the way back). That same side of the family, I'm distantly related to Lady Astor, the first woman to sit as a member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.
Of note...I have not seen a dime of that damn 5 (or 10, according to some stories) grand yet!Turtle Wexler said:spikechiquet said:My family also has two former major league baseball players, including one of the Black Sox.
I think buckweaver would like to have a word ...
HandsomeHarley said:DrewWilson said:On my dad's side, I'm related to Pocahontas (I have a family tree that traces it all the way back). That same side of the family, I'm distantly related to Lady Astor, the first woman to sit as a member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.
I think my daughter told me just a few days ago that her fiance claims to be an ancestor of Pochahontas'.
young-gun11 said:All of my family on my Dad's side is from NC. One of them was Kay Yow.
TigerVols said:My late uncle was engineer on a roof in London for Edward R. Murrow's live reports during the blitz, then came home to revive the Grand Ole Opry broadcast and show as the general manager, "wrote" a song that topped the charts for weeks (but really, he didn't write it, he was given it by the real writer in exchange for letting the writer's buddy perform on the Opry), then founded one of the first music publishing companies in the world -- the first song he published was "Heartbreak Hotel" -- became friends with Elvis Presley and one Saturday afternoon brought him over to my house when I was a kid so my mom could make him meatloaf. Oh, and shortly before he died, he married his years-younger nurse, so she inherited the company, and all the money that came with it when Sony/Michael Jackson bought the damn thing years later.
Big Circus said:beanpole said:I'm a direct descendant of Charlamagne (the Roman emperor, not the idiot rapper), from my mother's side of the family. Not that it's done anything for me.
Beanpole, me and you are kin! I'll be hitting you up for money shortly.