Related to any famous shooters or founding fathers?

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When I was growing up my Great grandfather (Who was a Bryan) told us kids how we were related to Daniel Boone through his wife Rebecca Bryan (supposedly not all her kids were not Daniels or something of the like). He really enjoyed showing us his mothers, my great great grandmother's, family Bible that supposedly traced the lineage to Dan'l... Sad thing is the handwriting was soooo poor that I couldn't make much out....
 
My great grandmother claimed to be second cousin to Doc Holiday but I have have never been able to confirm that,and have not delved deeply into the family tree.I'm afraid of what I might find.:D
 
I'm a descendant of Enoch Crosby, aka Harvey Birch as portrayed in the post-Revolution novel by James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy. Ironically, I've not read the book yet.

(Crosby was a famous spy who had dealings directly with GW during the War.)

Also, non-protestant Oceanis Hopkins - born on the Mayflower voyage - is a direct ancestor. There were Hopkins in my family as recently as 5 generations past. So I've got famous people in my lineage all throughout the history of the US - but mostly, they're just common captains and privates fighting for America. I've got ancestors who fought in the Civil War (for the North, fortunately or unfortunately) and other such things.

I've also got a slew of others, but that's the most unique that I can claim aside from links to Neopolean and Lief Erickson. :p
 
We just did our family history and Ethan Allen was a great great uncle.
And during the civil war we actually had brothers on different sides.
 
I'm a descendant of a guy named Adam. He didn't have a last name AFAIK. :)

Sorry, with all of you having such famous lineage, I had to come up with something.

The best I have in my actual family is that my great grandfather was a well known, big, BAD A$$ Irish cop in Pittsburgh back in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
 
I am related to Abraham Lincoln's biological father, Abraham Enloe. There is still controversey over the paternal origins of our 16th president but our family records clearly establish a link to Enloe, whether or not it can be proven that he was the true father. That side of the family also had men who faught and died in our Revolution and Civil War (for the north). They are namless in the history books but are still remain founding fathers of the country.

The rest of my heritage is all Swedish and Scottish without any notoriety.
 
kin to Pancho Villa on my mothers side, and one of the members of the boston tea party on my fathers.
 
My daughter-in-law is related to Zachary Taylor and Wild Bill Hickok.

On my mother's side are ancestors who fought in the Revolution
(the feds have never paid back the money that my grandmother's
ancestor loaned them).
I am distantly related to Don Knotts, still have an old photo of his grandfather. I realise that he was not a shooter (hard to be a gunfighter
with only one bullet).

My father was spawned in Oklahoma. On his side is the "dirty little coward
who shot Mr. Howard", and another who rode with the Dalton gang.
And then there is my uncle Joe who spent time in the Oklahoma state
pen for robbing banks. Won't even talk about my grandfather who spent
time in San Quentin during WWll.
 
Related to Cole Younger

Im related to Cole Younger. He is my several great Uncle on my mothers side. My moms grandmother can remeber when she was a little girl her mother hiding Cole Younger and Jesse James in the attic from the Pinkertons.:)
 
Bowie and Hawkins, unfortunately not THOSE Bowies or Hawkins.

Supposedly an ancestor was Sir John Hawkins, the first Englishman to import African slaves to North American colonies. But other ancestors were Quakers, so I can hope they helped slaves escape....
 
I can't list many names, but my aunt had one of the longest DAR ribbons in the Mississippi chapter. Of course, that means my mother could have claimed just as many ancestors, but she wasn't as in to it as her sisters.

Also, my great-grandfather rode with Nathan Bedford Forrest (DURING the War, not after, AFAIK).
 
According to my grandmother, my great uncle was either the first man (or first Black man) drafted in Chicago during WWI. He shot a few Germans in WWI while attached to the French Army, then a criminal or two while a Chicago policeman in the '20s, '30s and '40s. I guess that makes him a "shooter". :D
 
I have traced part of my family back to late 1600's-early 1700's in the US. I am sure somewhere along the line someone in my family was involved with someone famous or did something famous themselves. Just the law of averages going back that far.
 
My great, great grandfather - Thomas J. Callahan - on my my paternal grandmother's side of the family fought in the Battle of San Jacinto in Infantry Company B (Volunteers). According to my Grandmother (long dead now) his homestead is a Texas State monument though I've never been there and can't verify that. I suppose that might qualify as a founder though just barely.

That same grandmother was a Daughter of the American Revolution, a Daughter of the Republic of Texas and a Daughter of the Confederacy so our family roots go all the way back to the American Revolution at least. She was into that kind of thing but all the records went to the other side of the family.
 
One of my great-grandfathers on the paternal side was said to one of the best shots in all of Scotland. My great-aunt still has a beautiful clock he won as a prize at a match sometime in the Victorian era. He was a man named Louttit from the Orkney Islands.
 
Wow. Old thread.

I am directly descended from Robert Morris, who signed the Declaration, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.

As a side note, he was descended from Robert I (Robert the Bruce), King of Scotland.
 
I'm distantly related to Betsy Ross, who is said to have sewn the first American Flag.

Other than this, my only fame is for inventing torn whole sheets of paper to make small notes, and I invented accuracy in the bathroom for men.
 
Just mountain men and their Cherokee wives back up in my family tree, and if they ever did something astounding, they surely kept it to them selves. :)
 
Clyde Barrow was/is my dad's uncle, My Grandpa's brother or half brother, It's been a long time since we talked about them.

Bonnie Parker's mom was Emma Parker, she was the half sister of my Grandma, I think that makes her my aunt or great aunt or something twice removed. I'm not sure how that works.

Both of the above grandparents were on my dad's side of the family.

John Dillinger was my Grandma's second or third cousin, on my mom's side.

That's all I can remember being told when I grew up. Somewhere in storage is an original picture of Bonnie with the rose in her mouth instead of the cigar, and several pictures of them together with other people that I don't know.

-John
 
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