Related to any famous shooters or founding fathers?

[telcontar]

Let's see. John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley, two Governors of Mass. Descendent of five men who responded to the April Alarm. No big names just ordinary men who took up arms. Descendent of a couple of other Revolutionary war soldiers.
My son is also from Mayflower stock.

 

[Trainman]

I'm told that General John T. Thompson (inventor of the Thompson submachine gun) was a distant relation of mine somewhere up the "tree".

 

[Dave Markowitz]

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

Jim Bridger used a Hawken -- a real one.

 

[beaucoup ammo]

Hmmm

I live near Topperwein Road. Does that count? :O)

Take Care

 

[KriegHund]

Not that i know of.

Farthest back i know of is my great-great-great (sounds right...may be another great in there) grandfather on my dads side fough tin the civil war. I have his bayonette. He was a seargent, i believe.

 

[shooter58]

Am related (on mother's side) to Bigfoot Wallace (indian scout, featured in McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk). Great Grandad was Captain Manny Galt of Texas Ranger fame (the "other" ranger with Captain Hamer when he killed Bonnie & Clyde). The rest were outlaws.

 

[MS .45]

Related to William Floyd(signed Declaration of Independence)

Namesakes
Able Mann(Not famous but faught in Revolutionary War)
Jesse Mann and his brother(forget his name) fought at the Battle of Vicksburg for an Illinois infantry regiment. There names are on a monument at the National Park in Vicksburg. Again not famous but cool non the less.

 

[Spec ops Grunt]

Dont know how but I'm related to Ol' Hickory.

 

[V4Vendetta]

I'm related to Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Thomas Jefferson & Clint Eastwood. Since we are all children of Adam & Eve there is some truth to my previous statement. As far as being closely related, I have only me.

 

[CypherNinja]

Family legend says that my fathers side traces back to David Crockett.

Family legend also says the my mothers side is somehow connected with William Brodie.

 

[carlrodd]

directly descended from john morton, signer of the declaration of independence, descendant of morton mortonson who settled darby creek west of philadelphia. every generation on my dad's side has had a male with the first or middle name morton since then.

 

[PaulBk]

My dad claims lineage to Attila the Hun

-PB

 

[PistolPackin'Papa]

I STILL GET LOST IN THE WOODS SOMETIMES

Daniel Boone through his youngest sister Hannah. ( He would be my 5 great uncle.) and Meriweather Lewis, a cousin. The daughter of Hannah above, (ANN), married a Lewis, ( first cousin of Meriweather.) Trouble is, I still get lost in the woods sometimes.

 

[Drewtam]

I dont have the tree with me, but I've been told that my Ellis lineage came over as indentured servants, and my family has fought in every (major) american war from the Revolution. During the Civil War my fathers family fought for the North and my Mother's was on the South (Now that I think about it, I remember somethin about that great grandpa being injured in Tennesee, and some other battle). 'Bout the only war we missed was Gulf War 1 since it was over so fast, but cousins are over playing in the sand box now, so maybe that counts.

Drew

 

[spooney]

My step-dad is decendant from Noah Webster of the dictionary fame, and his grandfather was a well known teacher and school administrator in this part of the country.

On my dad's side my ggg-grandfather was a Texan during the texas revolution, there is a census paper with his name wrote in Sam Houston's handwriting.

So not much for actual famous people.

 

[stevekl]

My wife is directlly decended from Jesse James, her aunt goes to the family reunions in West Texas.

.

Well I hate to tell you this but my great great great great uncle was the sherrif who was responsible for capturing Jesse James

 

[TexasRifleman]

I'm a descendant of Cullen Baker, a Texas Gunfighter. My grandfather has a sixgun reportedly belonging to Cullen. The provinence is pretty good, about as good as you can get with these things.

He was not a nice man.....


http://hometown.aol.com/Gibson0817/baker.htm

 

[LSCurrier]

A woman ancestor of mine was a good shot. Her name was Eve and she had a husband name Adam. She shot her mouth off pretty well:

"Here!! Eat this apple!!", she told Adam.

and that's when the trouble started.


Luke

 

[baz]

One of my ancestors is William Ashley, one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. He fought with the Missouri Militia in the war of 1812, was elected lieutenant governor of Missouri in 1820, and later was a U.S. Representative for Missouri. One of his early ventures was a gunpowder factory. I imagine firearms were a significant part of his life (duh).

 

[Ala Dan]

Related To Any Famous Shooter's?

Yep, old Bob Ford that killed Jesse James~!

Some kind'a distant kin.

 

[isp2605]

My grandfather's uncle was Pat Garrett.
My dad's uncle was commander of the Cameron Highlanders. He was also commander of the Royal British Rifle Team, traveling all over the world doing shooting matches. He had married into the royal family.
Also a number of relatives in the Civil War and Revolutionary War - on both sides of both wars.

 

[Kim]

I'm a decendent of the outlaw Sam Bass.

 

[41hunter]

Lured out of Lurk Mode....

I'm also descended from Hamilton on my Mother's side, or so I've always been told. Hey Striker3, should I start lookin for you at family functions?

BTW, I seem to recall hearing somewhere that Burr pulled a fast one on our man with some kind of tricky triggers on his dueling pistols. Has anyone else heard this?

41hunter (keeping a wary eye on Gunsmith)

 

[gunsmith]

heh! I hadn't seen that last post!

I went to high school with some Hamilton's, a brother and sister.
They were shocked when I asked if they were related to
Alexander, I was the first person outside of their family to note the
last name.
I was pretty good friends with them, (I was in deep crush on the girl too).

The brother owes me ten bucks.

I consider all who served in fighting for our rights in the American Revolution to be a founding father and famous shooter btw.

The more folks showing an interest in our history the better.

 

[Alexfubar]

I am a direct descendant of Gen. John Glover of Washingtons Army. His daughter married Nicholas Broughton , Captain of the first American Warship.

That's Mom's side of the family.

Dad's side was rumored to be part of the Daltons of ye Olde West lore. But my father is no longer with us.