are you related to someone famous ..........

[Pocket Treys]

I am a direct descendant of John Howland...he is famous because he was riding on the Mayflower coming over to America and when they were about one day out he fell over the side of the boat but caught a towrope that was connected to the boat.

Reports says that he held on the that rope for the last day of the trip until they landed on shore.

 

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[Kentucky Kache]

So, you almost wasn't here.

 

[BIG61AL]

My wife's mom's maiden name was Clark and is related to Roy Clark the country artist

The author of the book and movie The Harrid Experiment was briefly part of the family through marriage

 

[springcypress]

I literally LOLed when I saw the first reply to this topic... I'm directly related to Noah Webster as well through my father's side of the family. Also on his side I've got a little Scottish royalty running in my veins, but I don't remember which specifically.

On my mom's side of the family there are a few others through her mother
One I'm willing to bet you've NEVER heard of is Horatio F. Simrall - direct descendant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_F._Simrall
One you MIGHT have heard of Christopher Gist - direct descendant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_F._Simrall
One you SHOULD have heard of Nathaniel Gist (Sequoyah) - indirect descendant (uncle)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah

My mom's father has one semi claim to fame. His grandfather ran a saloon in Wilburton Oklahoma and was shot in the head by Belle Star in lieu of paying a bar tab.

 

[MEinWV]

Charlemagne (Charles the Great), King of France (747 - January 18, 814) is my 38th Great Grandfather. Also a number of descending Kings, Dukes, etc. in the line.

 

[roswellborn]

Somehow related to Frances Hodgeson Burnett (The Little Princess, Sara Crewe, The Secret Garden) - until she left her husband, what's his name Burnett.

Supposedly related to Alexander Selkirk - the "Robinson Crusoe" DeFoe wrote about. (Haven't gotten that one documented)

One grandfather served in WWI, supposedly as an aide to Gen Pershing (also not documented - the Pershing part)

Nan

 

[Ray S S]

My Mother's father fought in the Civil War. At 16 years old he lied about his age and enlisted in Port
Huron, Michigan in 1862. I have some papers copied off the Internet showing the battles he fought in. He was
wounded twice. There is a Park in Port Huron named after him. His name was Kellogg but Mother said that
she didn't think they were related to the cereal people.

Ray karenray08

 

[gnewt]

Had a cousin replaced Bear Bryant, football coach for Alabama.(Once removed)Had a cousin that was not famous but a Flying Tiger ace a few times and later we were in the same outfit.I had a GGGgrandfather that is on the Oklahoma flag. TishamingoI was in the National Directory of Who's who and still not famous and don't want to be. LOL That book would make good toilet paper if it wasn't so slick. Gnewt

 

[Old Dog]

For the last twelve years or so I have been doing the Genealogy of my wife's family.
Her Maiden name is Pike.
A couple of years ago I found an odd link to an A. Pike in the family tree.
I have since researched it further and found out that ...
Yes it is Brigadier General Albert Pike.
Confederate General and Founder of the KGC.

Surprised me too.
Thom

 

[Mental Granny]

My great grandmother was not famous but, she was infamous in her little town ( at the time) she after her husband was murdered she became a bootlegger to support herself and 5 kids out of the back of their restraunt! Real suprise to me the pics I had seen of her were posing in front of farm house and older age sitting in the old stuffed chair with the dollies and a Bible on the table while she was wearing the pasily drees and hair in bun crocheting!

 

[Old Dog]

Cool !

 

[greydigger]

My great grandma was 90 some years old when I met her as she was chopping kindling wood in 1963.
Her mother escaped from the "Trail of Tears" the Cherokee Nation was forced to walk.
Her daughter told me stories of her trip across the country in a covered wagon to the west coast when she took care of me in the Mohave Desert. I got my Indian name when I followed a coyote ( doggie to me ) across the desert at age 4yrs.
My friends there were tarantulas, black widows and horned toads.
Seems my acquaintances are still the same'

 

[levis_dad]

R. B. Hayes - 19th president of the USA (brother to g-g-g-grandad)
Moshalatube - one of the three Choctaw chiefs that signed a treaty with US gov't (direct decendant)
Ted Nugent - by marriage (wife's 3rd cousin)

 

[ClonedSIM]

Ahhhhh, I finally found it......

James A. Michener, author of Texas, Alaska, and about a billion other books, was a great-uncle of mine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Michener

 

[Noodle]

Greydigger, I'd love to read some of those stories!! Thanks for sharing - Noodle

 

[mountainman 2]

Go back far enough and we're all related to someone famous. King Henry the third. More recently, Stephen Foster, the 19th century songwriter.