Related to any famous shooters or founding fathers?

[entropy]

Very distantly, Col. Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, and thus his son, Robert E. Lee. Also, unsubstantiatedly, on my mom's side, Jean Laffitte;maybe we're related, Ryder An ancestor of mine founded Stephen King's hometown, Fryeburg, Maine, in the late 1600's.

 

[Smoke]

Lets see....

The first Parks we can trace hit here in the early 1700's.
Aaron Parks rode with Light Horse Harry Lee.
There were numerous relatives in the Civil War, Great Great Uncle served under Hood, was wounded someehere (I forget)
William Parks fell at the Alamo, he was a brother to my Great Great Grandfather that established the ranch we still own.

I can't remember what else.

Note of interest to Kim:

Sam Bass often kept the Denton mare on a piece of property that we own. In those days it was owned by a family named Godager. They were friends of the outlaw and he often stayed in their cabin (reminants can still be seen there) while passing through. My family purchased the property in the 1920's.

 

[444]

I am also a son of the American Revolution on both sides.
We also traced the family back to the Mayflower.

My uncle retired and did a lot of geneology work on that side of the family. He came up with a lot of interesting actual documents such as the paperwork signed by our family swearing alligence to the union upon release from a Union POW camp.

 

[Kinsman]

Looks like jsalcedo and I are cousins....I'm related to Jesse and Frank, on my mother's side. Also, somewhere back there were some granpappys who fit the Yankees during the War between the States.

Amen. I am fortunate enough to have a father who is a war hero and a man who took the time to teach me how to be a decent, responsible worker, citizen and shooter.

Same for me; my grandfather though. Wish I were half the man he was.

 

[Pendragon]

On my dads side, our family traces back to the Strouds who founded Stroudsberg PA and were also "Sons and Daughters of the Revolution".

On my wifes side, she had an uncle or great uncle who was one of the crew for Wild Bill Hickock (sp?).

 

[TonyB]

My ancestors were stomping grapes in Italy and growing potatoes in Ireland so I'm either related to mobsters or drunks depending on the side of the family...either way I'm SURE there was gunplay

 

[TechBrute]

Anybody related to Bill or Hillary?!?

Uh... I don't think that has any place in this thread. Please double check the title.

Tearing the country apart doesn't make you a founding father.

 

[ahenry]

Cool question

Supposedly I am descended from Patrick Henry. The family has done the genealogy and we have quite a few relatives that fought in the revolution. In fact, we had family members, “Overmountain†men, at Kings Mountain where Col. Patrick Ferguson, inventor of the Ferguson rifle, was killed. However, we never came across anything indicating any of my relatives were the one(s) that shot him.

Jsalcedo,

My Great Uncles rode with Pancho Villa. The pictures were displayed on my grandfathers bookshelf until he passed away.

Interesting, I believe that the grandfather of a friend of mine (and occasional poster on this board) chased Pancho Villa and his gang and your great uncles, back in the day. Crazy connections, I just found out the other day that my grandfather and the grandfather of a friend of mine probably “played chase†across the Tex-Mex border as “la migra†and “mojadoâ€.

 

[striker3]

gunsmith

Thats kind of interesting, I am a direct decendant of Alexander Hamilton.

 

[trooper]

Um... my younger brother once knew a girl who used to play tennis with Dubya's daughters... does that count?

 

[simon]

My father, of whom I am proud, once traced our lineage back as far as U.S.Grant,who IIRC, was my great 6X uncle by marriage.

Also, Grand mothers maiden name was Anderson, and directly related to Hans Christian Anderson of story book/writing fame.

 

[bogie]

Ooohh... Should I go there...

Sure!

Capt. Adam H. Bogardus was an exhibition shooter with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show until he retired to ensure that his children (also exhibition shooters) received educations. He was a shotgunner, and is credited with developing the artificial target (originally glass balls) and throwers.

On my mother's side, I'm distantly related to Simon Kenton, who is unfortunately credited with saving the life of that dang mercenary. I grew up in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, which was founded by James Harrod, whose group hired that dang mercenary, and whose settlement, founded in 1774, is essentially the oldest town west of the mountains... The mercenary's settlement didn't make it.

Back in New Amsterdam, the Rev. Everardus Bogardus married Anneke Jans, the illegitimate daughter of the king of Holland. They had a whole passel of kids.

My father was a glider rider in the 82nd.

 

[squibload]

Family is from RI originally, and my dad's a BIG geneology buff.

Looks as though I may be related to Joseph Bucklin, involved in the burning of the HMS Gaspee in June 1772...he shot British Navy Lt. Duddington. Not a very well known incident, but Bucklin fired one of the shots leading to the American Revolution.

Otherwise, "cowards RUN in my family"...

 

[oldfart]

On my mother's side there's Nathan Hale. Since he didn't have any kids I can't claim direct decsendency, but it's close.

On my dad's side I can claim Kit Carson as some degree of grandparent.
I've never been very interested in that sort of thing so I really haven't investigated it much. If I ever dug into it very much I'd probably find out about all the horsetheives and traitors. No thanks.

 

[Correia]

No famous Americans on my side. Father's side came over much later from the Azores (Terceira) after most of the exciting stuff had finished. There was a Gaspar Correia that sailed with Vasco DeGama, but good luck pinning down that geneology. Good chance however, as far as I can tell because there seems to be only two branches of Correias out of the Azores from the late 1400s, and if you ended up in the Azores in the 1400s, you had to know something about sailing.

Mothers side, poor Polish/Lithiuanian cole miners on one side, and back woods of Mississippi on the other. No real info about any of them.

Now my wife is a direct descendant of Wilford Woodruff and Lorenzo Snow. That won't mean much to anybody who isn't Mormon however.

 

[BowStreetRunner]

One of my precedents was a Colonel in the War of Independence, William Crawford.......he was killed by Indians in Ohio in 1782 and as a friend and business associate (land speculation/surveying) of George Washington appears often in Washington's old journals
he served (I have found) with the 5th and 7th Virginia Line regiments....although the 7th was reorganized into the 5th, so he may have only served in "one" regiment......at his death he commanded a regiment of Virginia militia.......
he was an associate of Simon Girty (back in their F&I War Days), the famous/infamous white man who went over to fight with the Indians in the War........of course, Girty's treachery kinda stiffled their friendship
There are, I have read, counties in 5 states named after Colonel Crawford, for sure Crawford County Ohio is named for him and I suspect the Crawford Counties in Indiana, Michigan, and Penn. as well.
BSR

 

[oweno]

Sort of on topic: One of my ancestors was taken as a POW by Col. George Washington during the French and Indian War.

Owen

 

[Navy joe]

Family been in Virginia since 163-sumptin' so I suppose. I know we supplied a bride that became Bobby Lee's mom. Trying to do my genealogy since no one else has done much with it.

 

[Lupine]

I've got a great great grandfather who signed Custer's Last Paycheck and was a good friend of Buffalo Bill. That count?

Other than that, Admiral Bull Halsey is somewhere on my family tree.

 

[Ed]

Has anyone studied their familys history and never found anyone famous?

 

[Papakeith]

Ahh what the heck, I'll chime in. My family is directly decended from John Q. Adams.
My Family(both sides) have been in the same area for a minimum of 7 generations. Names like Hopkins, Steere, Adams, Williams are littered throughout my lineage.

 

[gunsmith]

Ed

Has anyone studied their familys history and never found anyone famous?

My girlfriend has a great great uncle Ed,does that count?

A comedian once asked,why are the mental hospitals full of people who think they're Jesus? why don't they think they are Bhudda or Krishna?

and the question was famous shooters or Founding Fathers...other countries have famous shooters as well

 

[Upst8NYer]

Don't know if it exactly qualifies as "famous shooter of founding father" but my father was a soldier in the 38th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division in WWII also known as "The Rock of the Marne".

The 3rd ID was one of the units that deployed behind enemy lines in France and advanced to the front lines along the Marne river. John G Pershing (Commander of the US Army in France) stated:

"On this occasion, a single regiment of the 3rd Division wrote one of the most brilliant pages in our military annals.

"It prevented the crossing of at certain points on its front, while on either flank the Germans who had gained a footing pressed forward.

"Our men, firing in three sections, met the German attacks with counterattacks at critical points and succeeded in throwing back two German divisions into complete confusion, capturing 600 prisoners."

I have a very detailed lineage and geneology that my father did before his death that lists my father's family line back into the 1700's and includes some of the actual birth and death records (which at that time were hand written on plain paper by the doctor present at birth and death) and one of the death records has dark stains on it, that I almost think are blood, and which bears one word that makes it stand out. "Patriot"

I don't know if it was common at the time to note on death records whether the person was a patriot or not, or for that matter to include the persons military rank on a death record. It tends to make me think that the descendant mentioned in the record had died in the line of duty and if not, it's at least a noble thought.

I am conincidentally also related on my mothers side to the Otis family, of which include the inventor of the elevator and escalator.

Upst8NYer

 

[444]

"Has anyone studied their familys history and never found anyone famous?"

Plenty of people, but they didn't respond to this thread because it clearly only asked for famous people and/or founding fathers.

 

[Tusker10mm]

Relations

Well a couple that I know of. Ole D. Boone Himself, and Sam Adams.