Related to any famous shooters or founding fathers?

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Bill...

I tried pretty hard to find a picture online of him holding a gun from the many movies he's appeared in, but couldn't find a single one.:(
 
All I can find... jeez...

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My grandmothers maiden name was Oakley (mothers side), I have yet to do the family tree but who knows.
 
Can trace back on my mother's side to the mid 1600's, ancestors mostly from England, Ireland and Wales. Midway is one Captain Pickett, civil war era. Not sure how close Captain Pickett was related to Maj. Gen. George Pickett, of "Pickett's Charge" fame. Another was a Union Army doctor. Father's side is inscrutable.....his mother was American Indian, what tribe/pedigree unknown, and it seems not many records available. Wife's side has a seagoing ship's captain, possibly German descent, and Cherokee Indian from Alabama. Not many records on the Cherokee side for her either. Guess they didn't keep many records on birch bark....
 
I dated a young lady who was related to Winston Churchill. Does that count? He wielded a mean Broomhandle Mauser and posed with a Tommy Gun.
 
An ancestor on my father's side signed the Declaration of Independence. My mother's ancestors (Irish Gentry) fled France during the revolution to avoid "Madame Guillotine". :what:
 
According to my father I was.

Everytime we would go shooting as a kid he would always say he was the famous "Dead Eye Dick" the best shot in the west. ;-)
 
My father has our geneology all the way back to God, I think. We are directly related to these people...

Abraham Lincoln
both Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt

Seth Bullock, Sherrif of Deadwood and owner of the Deadwood Hotel is my Great Great Uncle

Lady Godiva through our Croney line.

I am pretty sure that if about 512000 people die, I am next in line for the throne of england.
 
Looks like I have a connection to TR as well...totally unexpected!
My cousin's research just turned up a surprise. My GGGGfather's mother's cousin was a Daniel Stewart, BGen during the war of 1812 - who was TR's Greatgrandfather. I haven't seen the provenance yet. How many " removed's " is that?
And my grandmother's maiden name was Doolin.
 
My dad was famous in his own mind.

Actually, I found out from my uncle (Dad's older brother) that Dad really was some kind of he11 on wheels with his .22 rifle. Like lots of kids in MN and the Dakotas in the late 40s and early 50s, Dad made a lot of money (for a kid, remember) popping off gophers. Farmers paid him, and he got the county bounty too.

Dad won a shooting contest with a farmer's son one afternoon, when the bet was Dad couldn't shoot off the string of ceramic insulators off of the electric fence 30 yards away with his iron-sighted Winchester 250. Dad ran the fenceline and the farmer paid up and made his son replace all the insulators since Dad out-shot him.

:neener:

Q
 
Okay, I'll play too . . . nobody real famous

Both sides came over on the Mayflower . . .

My direct Gr-Gr-Gr-Gr-Gr-Gr Grandfather Thomas (same last name as me) was a Minuteman from Billerica, Mass . . . he responded to the Lexington Call and opened up on the Redcoats at Meriam's Corner near Concord with the rest of the Billerica Militia . . .

His son, my Gr-Gr-Gr-Gr-Gr Grandfather Issac, was a Green Mountain Boy in Vermont and fought with Ethan Allen.

My Gr-Gr-Gr-Gr Grandfather was both a bootlegger and the Sheriff in Indiana in the late 1850's

My Gr-Gr Uncle Lonny fought in the battle of San Juan Hill and El Caney in the Spanish American War . . . and I have the .45 Colt he carried with him always, and photos of him with it in Cuba, and later the Phillipines. He was then in the Wyoming Guard, was deployed to the Mexican Border during Pancho Villas fun times, was Federalized, and Shipped to France in 1917. I wish this old Colt could talk.

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I have been told I am related to Sir Issac Newton. I am related to a man named Dale Dike, who supposedly coached the national rifle team for a while (and supposedly had a few gold medalist under his tutorage). I'm only 3 generations away from him.
 
Yep. John Moses Browning is my uncle.

That's a joke. I'm such a clown and unabashed proponent of the 1911. I also visited Australia for work some time ago and they have a saying, "Bob's your uncle" so I perverted it to: JMB's my uncle. :neener:
 
I'm not kin to anyone famous but my Grandfather once had a shooting contest with Frank James at the Mo. state fair in the 1880s. Grandpa was a deputy sherrif in Crane, Mo. and he and Frank knew each other pretty well.
 
My maternal grandmother is related to Queen Elizabeth I...not descended from as she had no children. She's desceneded from a cousin of Elizabeth's or something like that.

So in our context, Elizabeth I is the "Virgin" in Virginia...since she was unmarried it was good manners to presume same in those days. Obviously Virginia was, along with Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the most important states to the founding of America. And of course, many founding fathers came from Virginia, as did Daniel Boone etc.

So that's is good as it gets from me...no shooters or founding fathers in a direct sense but still...
 
I can claim family in Revolutionary War, 1812, Civil War (both sides)WW1 (both Sides) WW2 (Both Sides) and Nam. I beleive I am a decendent of William Clark of Lewis and Clark, but that might be family legend.

My wife is closely related to Mel Brooks (whose son wrote World War Z)
 
I'm not related to anyone famous. I come from a family of moonshiners and hit men from the late 20s and
30s out of Northern Indiana. Oh, I am related to Charlie root. He was the pitcher who piched the ball that Babe Ruth hit over the wall after pointing to it. Ya might know, I am related to the guy who pitched the ball and not the one who hit it.
 
My 7 Greats-Grandfather was Thomas Macy, the first white man to settle on Nantucket, 1659. Somewhere in the line is a decedent of Ben Franklin's bastard son. My Great-Grandfather William Jenkins Macy, was the last in the long line of whaling sea captains. He passed away in 1903.

Woody
 
All I know is that several ggg-Uncles died in Pickett's Charge. I come from a quiet, Scottish Presbyterian family with little to no drama :)
 
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