Related to any famous shooters or founding fathers?

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Sgt Alvin York on my Grandmother side of the Family. She showed me in her Bible one time how we were related.
 
Uh, well ----- how 'bout a "didn't shooter?". One great-great grandpa was Thaddeus "Moses" Rose. The guy that didn't cross Travis' line in the sand at the Alamo, went over the wall the night before the seige began, and lived to a ripe old age. (He sorta forgot to marry my g-g grandma, though, who happened to be a Cherokee.)
Only guy in the Alamo that could count ...
 
Incidentally the mormon church has great resources for those who really want to delve...
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Prior to the Compaq takeover by HP, the mormon church was the single largest customer of Compaq servers in the country. Their IT resources are mostly spent on lineage.
 
I'm related to Calamity Jane on my mothers side. She's like my GGGGgreat aunt or something close to that. Her real name is Martha Jane Canary, my ggrandmother was a Canary. I've seen her in some family picture albums, fugly woman she was!! :barf:
 
I thought it was time to bump this thread

because of all the interesting histoy here, I hadn't thought of famous gunnies from other countries...cool
 
pmbiker...that's interesting, my Grandfather on my Mom's sides last name was Canary and he was supposed to be related to Calamity Jane.

He gave me an 1873 trapdoor Springfield before he died...I've always wondered what the history of that rifle might be. I still shoot that rifle, btw.
 
I'm not related to any americans, being the first generation on this continent. My great-uncle isn't really famous, but he did have a hand in a famous shot. He said "fire" on May 1st of 1960 near Sverdlovsk, which launched one of the missiles that brought down Gary Powers.
 
We Garlich's are a recent addition here.

Apparently, my family has had an "interesting" history. Seems shortly after the crusades we got kicked out of Brittain and went to Germany. Couple hundred years there and my Great Great Grandfather was no longer welcome there. Hellooooo, New York! Then Pittsburgh, then Youngstown,... Nobody famous, but infamous, perhaps.
 
No founding fathers or outlaws in my family tree. The closest I come is John J. Pershing on my mother's side. We have a family picture or two of him with other members of the family.
 
Hmm well if Castro would have lost my Grandfather would probably be well known but then my parents wouldn't have met. Well my great grand fathers used their machetes against the spanish a while back and with some help from you fellows the Spanish were driven out of Cuba. And a long time before that my forefathers rode with Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (El Cid) and drove the moors from Spain. Some of my relatives went back to Vivar for awhile before coming here because Castro would only let people leave to Spain for awhile. My uncle enlisted during Vietnam but he wound up going to Germany.
 
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pmbiker...that's interesting, my Grandfather on my Mom's sides last name was Canary and he was supposed to be related to Calamity Jane.
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Nice to meet you cuz'

This is an oldie, but I'm glad to see it again. I never thought I'd be meeting family here though.:)
 
1911Tuner said:
Related to Ance Hatfield & Sons....of the Hatfield/McCoy thing...if that counts.:D
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I always knew there was somethin' craaaaaazzzzzy like that about you, Tuner! :)

Guess that's where the gun knowledge comes from, though, hee hee.
 
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Hacker15E said:
I always knew there was somethin' craaaaaazzzzzy like that about you, Tuner! :)

Guess that's where the gun knowledge comes from, though, hee hee.
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It gets better, Hacker mah fren...Kelie is related to the McCoy (West bygod Virginia) side of the gentleman's disagreement...:rolleyes:

Also noticed the post on Gary Powers. A homeboy from Wise County Virginia,
Francis Gary Powers' hometown was the small coal mining villiage of Pound, Va. Actually not much more than a mining camp, and locally known as "The Pound"...a short distance from Coeburn...my mother's hometown. My first cousin bought a J-45 Gibson from Gary shortly after he enlisted. It was the very first guitar that I played, and managed to pick out the theme to Bonanza by ear at age 8. I have memories and surreal visions of the coke ovens at full burn on The Pound. Positively medeval sight, for those who have never seen a coke oven. Powers and cousin Jack went to high school together.
 
Relatives

I have a great uncle that apparently was involved in the disembowlement and hanging of Mussolini. Family picture of event hangs in my Aunts basement.

Thats it. I cant really count King Hakon of Sweden yet, haven't found definitive proof yet
 
Dad was a rifle "Expert" (higher even than Marksman) in Korean War.

Great-Grandfather on his side was conscripted into Czar's army. Apparently distinguished himself so well in battle that a town in Russia was named after him.
 
according to my greats aunts we are related to some kinda Albanian royalty or nobility or something along those lines I forget which I never really asked her for details. Not sure if it counts but we didn't get here till early 1900's give us some time :neener: .....unless you count mobsters we had a few of those but that was many moons ago and all dead now.
 
Jim Bridger

Definitely not a founding father, but I have no doubt he was a shooter (even if not famous for his shooting): mountain man Jim Bridger.

My mother's maiden name was Bridger, and her family came from the same part of Virginia that Jim did.

My grandfather (on mom's side) and I both have a remarkable resemblance to JB.

Wonder what rifle he shot?

Nem
 
Only famous people come from my mom's side---Admiral Nimitz was my grandfather's uncle---or in other words my great grandmother's brother.

Francis Scott Key--(great 5x) uncle----my grandmother's maiden name was Key.
 
William Clark

I'm a decendent of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition. I am also related to a private in the continental army who served under Gen. Washington at Valley Forge. My family also sold a parcel of land to George Washington that is now part of D.C. I have relatives that has served during every major war in American history except WW2.

There are also a couple who were hanged for being horse theives.

I claim relatives on both my mom's and dad's side to the revolutionary war.

My mom claims we can trace our family tree back to the mayflower, but I am not yet convinced of that one.

Ex-wife is related to John Wilkes Booth.
 
I am not related to anyone famous. My father and his father, as all of their fathers before them, swore a vow of celibacy...
 
Several Revolutionary War veterens, including a Captain in the New Jersey Militia.

As far as shooters, one of my ggg-uncles was a indian scout and got shot at Beecher Island. He later died in a gun fight in Grand County, Colorado in 1883. His brother was killed by the Nez Pearce a decade earlier.

There's a thread or two on genealogy on APS right now if anyone is interested.
 
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