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The following is a list of interesting/notable ancestors & relatives
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B U L T M A N
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Anthony Frederick "Tony" Bultmann (possible relation to theologian Rudolph Bultmann)
Bultman Funeral Home 1883-2006 
(my great x 2 grandfather)

Fritz Bultman, painter. family friends with Tennessee Williams (Fritz wasn't named in his book but Tennesse stayed at Fritz's Provincetown house with Marlon Brando, who fixed Fritz's toilet, this was confirmed by a Bultman cousin) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Bultman 
(Grandfather's cousin)

Muriel Bultman-Francis, sister of Fritz, Public relations Agent, Art connoisseur 
"Her clients included Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Rise Stevens, and a struggling playwright named Tennessee Williams. She found Mr. Williams a place to live which turned out to be the setting of a play later made into film "Suddenly Last Summer" (this was the residence of my GGx2 Tony which is still owned by the family, located behind the Bultman Funeral Home 3338 St Charles Ave. New Orleans. Which is now a Fresh Market.) 
http://museum.deltazeta.org/Tour/ItemPreview/9?itemID=87
(Grandfather's cousin)

Harold Francis (married Muriel Bultman) 
writer and actor, known for 20,000 Men a Year (1939), Criminals of the Air (1937) and Man from Montreal (1939)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290275/

Henry J Bultman Jr, Springfield, New Jersey Mayor (Grandfather's cousin)
survived the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, retired USNR commander
see his info for transcript about his life/WWII 
"I had a cousin that was starting the Republican Party down in the South" (that cousin was Grandfather) 

Haitian New Orleans/Paris composers
 Charles Lucien Lambert -composer and musician 
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lucien_Lambert
 Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien-L%C3%A9on_Guillaume_Lambert 
Sidney Lambert 
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Lambert
 (married into Grandfather's family)

Jean Pierre Gueydan
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gueydan,_Louisiana

Judge Arnold Krekel, co-founded Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri
 http://www.cliffmanorinn.com/inn-history/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Krekel
 (Mom's brother in Law's ancestor)



B L I S S
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Famous relatives of ancestor Nathaniel Bliss 
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=14883+nathaniel+bliss

Mercy Freeman married Samuel Knowles, nan grandfather relatives
Edward Doty [Mayflower passenger] daughter in law is Grandfather relative 

The original hall dates from the late 14th century. It was probably completed in 1381, built by Edmund Lawrence (ancestor of Margaret Hulins Bliss)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Hall

Rollo the Viking, first king of Normandy 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo
 (ancestor of all 4 grandparents!!) 

William The Conqueror, first Norman King of England 
 http://fabpedigree.com/s052/f082740.htm
 (ancestor of Nan)

Bernard of Italy 797-818
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_of_Italy
his father is 
Pepin of Italy 777-810
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepin_of_Italy


Deacon Samuel Chapin (also known as The Puritan) (1598 – 1675)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chapin

Thomas Bliss co-founded Springfield Mass 1635
 https://familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/6005685
 (ancestor)

Mary Bliss-Parsons 
accused of witchcraft [several decades before the far more notorious Salem Witch Trials],  she was ultimately acquitted
 http://heritageramblings.net/tag/margaret-hullins-bliss/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(Bliss)_Parsons
 (sibling of Thomas Bliss ancestor)

Lydia Bliss-Gilbert 
executed on charge of being a witch 1654 (knew Mary Bliss Parsons)
Before Salem: Witch Hunting in the Connecticut River Valley, 1647-1663
By Richard S. Ross III

Joseph Parsons Jr
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Parsons,_Jr.
 Joseph Parsons, Jr. was one of the members of this pastoral search  committee, which ultimately chose Jonathan Edwards, whose tenure as pastor would lead  to the Great Awakening
 (descendant of Mary Bliss Parsons)

Albert Parsons of Chicago Haymarket Affair
 https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpa41
(descendant of Mary Bliss Parsons)

Marvel Whiteside Parsons 1914-1952
American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)

gossip columnist Louella Oettinger-Parsons, mother of film's producer Harriet Parsons.
movie columnist and a screenwriter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louella_Parsons
Harriet's dad is related to Nan

Major General Leonard Wood
Wood and (President) Roosevelt organized the Rough Riders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Wood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Leonard_Wood

Charles. W Bliss 
  "Bliss dynasty" of Hillsboro IL. editor and publisher of the Montgomery News.  A web search of him started my genealogy quest. 
 http://history.montgomeryco.com/Archives/View-Photo-Archive/ID/1035 
(great x 3 grandfather)

Alfred Bliss 
 friends with Peter Cartwright, helped found what is now known today as Macmurray College in  Illinois
 (great x 4 grandfather)

Fraser Bliss Price 
 former attorney/mayor of Monmouth County, New Jersey
(Bliss relative)

Aaron Thomas Bliss
 	National Guard, U.S. Representative from and the 25th Governor of the US state of Michigan
https://www.geni.com/people/Gov-Aaron-Thomas-Bliss/6000000020014277643


Aaron Tyler Bliss III
Author of "Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America", published by the author, 1982, in 3 large volumes of 3059 pages total
https://www.geni.com/people/Aaron-Bliss-III/6000000026214265790
(digitalized on Ancestry Genealogy of the Bliss family in America
Aaron Bliss )

William Wallace Smith Bliss
as in Fort Bliss. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace_Smith_Bliss
http://www.blissfhs.co.uk/eminent.htm#wwsb

Philip Bliss
American composer, conductor, writer of hymns and a bass-baritone[1] Gospel singer. He wrote many well-known hymns, including "Almost Persuaded" (1871); "Hallelujah, What a Saviour!" (1875); "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning"; "Wonderful Words of Life" (1875); and the tune for Horatio Spafford's "It Is Well with My Soul" (1876)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bliss

Lucille ball, American actress
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball
 (related through Bliss line)

Queen Elizabeth II, Queen 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II
 (related through Bliss line)




Henry the III
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_England
 (Nan and Grandfather descend from two brothers)

Jesse J Phillips 
 Chief Justice of the Illinois State Supreme Court
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_J._Phillips
 (uncle of greatx3 grandmother Elizabeth Phillips-Bliss)

Oran Roberts, 17th governor of Texas
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oran_Milo_Roberts
Judge of the Supreme Court of Texas and also Governor of that State. He still resides at Austin and is known as the "Old Alcalde."
https://montgomery.illinoisgenweb.org/biographies/biophillipsjesse1892.htm

Franklin Pierce 14th USA President

Rutherford Hayes 19th USA President

Stephen Hopkins, Mayflower passenger!!!!!!! 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hopkins_(Mayflower_passenger) 
 http://pilgrimhopkins.org/lineageHome.php?pafg01.htm#1
ancestor of Elizabeth Phillips-Bliss (my gg x 3) 

Thomas Paine author of Common Sense
Robert Paine, son of Thomas, Declaration of Independence
both are descendants of Stephen Hopkins

Richard More, Mayflower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_More_%28Mayflower_passenger%29
descendant of John De Mowbray III. Nan and him descend from two of his children. 

Kyra Sedgwick Bacon via Stephen Hopkins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyra_Sedgwick

The Wright Brothers
aviation pioneers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers

Edward Lydston Bliss 1865-1960
 China Medical missionary
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bliss

Edward Lydston Bliss Jr 1912-2002
 American broadcast journalist, news editor and educator. After 25 years at CBS News (1943–1968) as editor, copywriter and producer for Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, he founded the broadcast journalism program at American University.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bliss

Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) 
of Merriam-Webster dictionary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster
his ancestor is Mayflower passenger William Bradford, who is not related to me 

Rev. Daniel Bliss, First Parish Church Concord, was a "New Light" minister and one of the authors of the First Great Awakening, stirring the Puritanical religious establishment and dividing the church of New England.
He graduated from Yale in 1732, received a second degree from Harvard
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the great grandson of Daniel Bliss


Daniel Bliss 1823-1916
founded the Syrian Protestant College. The school, which opened in Beirut in 1866, later came to be known as the American University of Beirut (AUB). Bliss was named President of the college he had founded and also took on the responsibilities of treasurer and Professor of Bible and Ethics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bliss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_Street
http://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/a-c/bliss-daniel-1823-1916/
http://web.mei.edu/sites/default/files/mei_library/pdf/4081.pdf
https://www.aub.edu.lb/aboutus/Pages/history.aspx


Thomas Albert Bliss
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088536



Humphrey Bogart 
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Cash Warren 
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1820866/

Brooke Shields
Glenn Close

Levi Parsons Morton
22nd Vice President
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_P._Morton

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson

Mary Moody Emerson, aunt of Ralph Waldo Emerson
 American letter writer and diarist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Moody_Emerson

Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliphalet_Adams_Bulkeley
Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-families/ellen-axson-wilson/

Tasker Howard Bliss 1853 -1930 (son of George Ripley Bliss)
diplomat involved in the peace negotiations of World War I, and was one of the co-signatories of the Treaty of Versailles for the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasker_H._Bliss


George Ripley Bliss
He served twice as president of Bucknell University. (following was Grandma relative Justin Rolph Loomis who was third Bucknell president)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ripley_Bliss


Henry Hale Bliss 
first recorded instance of a person being killed in a motor vehicle collision in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Henry_H._Bliss

Henry E. Bliss (son of Henry Hale Bliss)
The Bliss’s were in comfortable circumstances, and lived in “an elegant home on Fifty Third Street”

Both Bliss’s parents were descended from English families who settled in the Eastern United States in the colonial period, and his earliest roots through the male line can be traced back to Thomas Bliss [3], who lived in Hartford, Connecticut in 1639 (Campbell 1976, 135). Bliss’s son, John Hale Bliss, recounts that “my father was at heart an aristocrat, and he retained the tastes of one who has been brought up in this background, however decrepit”
https://www.isko.org/cyclo/bliss

Bliss relative married into Dickinson family (Emily Dickinson connection to Bliss family)

Princess Diana and Bliss Buchan-Bultman (Nan, my grandmother) share ancestor George Strong who's family married Bliss' and also connection to Grandma's ancestor. 

Clint Eastwood is related to both Nan and Grandma

Lucille Bliss 
 (Voice actress for female smurfett)
1916-2012

Margaret Roberts Thatcher is my 11th cousin three times removed!

B U C H A N 
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Descendants of the Boyds
Owned originally by the Boyd family, it has strong historical connections with many people and events famous in Scottish history. Robert the Bruce who gave the Boyds these lands; James III of Scotland whose sister married a Boyd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Castle
ancestor of Fannie Thompson-Buchan

Edward Fuller 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fuller_(Mayflower_passenger)

Richard Gere (actor) 
related through Edward Fuller Mayflower passenger

Vincent Rongnion
a French Huguenot/French Protestants 
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rongnion-3
descendant Rachel Runyon-Dunn married relative of mine 

John Field (proto-Copernican)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Field_(proto-Copernican)
descendant Benjamin Field married relative of mine 

President Abraham Lincoln's grandfather Abraham Lincoln (born 1744) married my relative Mary Shipley, she died, and he married the President's grandmother.  Mary is sibling to Leslie James Buchan's ancestor Richard Shipley 1709-1781

Jacob Fowler of The Glenn–Fowler expedition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn%E2%80%93Fowler_expedition
Leslie James Buchan 5th great uncle. 


 Leslie  James "Bill" Buchan , Ph.D
 Former Dean of Business at Tulane University and former Vice-President at Washington University http://freemanblog.freeman.tulane.edu/Centennial/index.php/2014/03/24/leslie-buchan/ 
(My maternal great grandfather)

Chester "Chet" Buchan
 Mayor and Justice of the Peace, Clarion Iowa
 (brother of Leslie James Buchan)


Diane Saywer
Related to Thomas Dunigan, ancestor of Fannie Thompson-Buchan



Elder Edmund Frost 
one of the original ruling bodies of Harvard

Charles Sumner Frost
(May 31, 1856 – December 11, 1931)
American architect. He is best known as the architect of Navy Pier and for designing over 100 buildings for the Chicago and North Western Railway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner_Frost

Robert Frost 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost
Bliss relative married Frost. 

Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet
He is widely remembered for organizing, financing, and leading the 1745 expedition that captured the French fortress of Louisbourg during King George's War.
The town of Pepperell, Massachusetts is named for him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pepperrell

S E Y M O U R
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Valentine Greatrakes, Irish Faith Healer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Greatrakes
(sibling of ancestor to "Doc" Homer Seymour my ggx2)

William Christian "Illiam Dhone" "Brown haired William"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiam_Dhone
ancestor to "Doc" Homer Seymour (my ggx2)

Sir Anthony Cooke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Cooke
ancestor to "Doc" Homer Seymour (my ggx2)

Nathaniel Bacon 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bacon_(painter)
married descendant of my ancestor Richard Cooke (ancestor to "Doc" Homer Seymour (my ggx2))

A R Schwartz Texas Legislature
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Schwartz

Bruce Mcgill, actor (My Cousin Vinny etc) 
 (thanks to cousin Kimball Everingham)
 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569226/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t8
 (related through Seymour line)


E S K R I D G E
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Col. George Eskridge Sr. (Guardian to Mary Ball, mother of George Washington) http://eskridgefamilyassociation.com/
 (my Great x 7 grandfather)

President James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (sister Jane married Eskridge relative) 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan


General Robert E Lee, Lee family married Eskridges American general, Confederate Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee


J O H N S O N
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Torf, Norman baron
Born in the early 10th century, he possessed numerous lordships in Normandy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torf
Ancestor of Grandfather, also related to Grandpa 

Johnson's were Quakers in Colonial Virginia 

Came from Scotland. 
Ancestor Alexander 6th Laird of Kingcausie Irvine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Irvine

James Watkins early Jamestown, descendant married a Johnson 
https://www.amazon.com/James-Watkins-His-Descendants-Jamestown-ebook/dp/B077KGLM81

My mother's aunt  was really a "genealogist" so she had us with the Scott family   back to Rob Roy McGregor. -Sally Johnson-Terry, granddaughter to AR Johnson I, first cousin to Grandfather 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Roy_MacGregor

Thomas Grey 1384-1415
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Grey_(conspirator)

Sir Henry de Percy 
Son of Joscelin de Louvain, Lord of Petworth, and Agnes de Percy, daughter of Adam II de Brus and Juetta de Arches.


Col. William Augustine Washington, second cousin to George Washington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Washington

Martha Dandridge's [Wife of George Washington] grandfather Orlando Jones is my ancestor. 

Gideon Macon
early American settler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Macon

Robert Alexander
 founder of now Washington & Lee Univ.
 https://www.wlu.edu/presidents-office/about-the-presidents-office/history-and-governance/past- presidents/robert-alexander

Augustine Warner Jr, common ancestor of George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Warner_Jr.
 http://www.warnerhall.com/

Elizabeth Crawford-Meriwether
 Her family is said to be descendents of Sir Roland Crawford, the grandfather of  Sir William Wallace (the subject of Mel Gibson's 1994 epic movie Braveheart.)

Meriwether Lewis of Lewis & Clark
THE EXPLORER!!!!
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriwether_Lewis

Robert Beverley, Jr. planter and political figure 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Beverley,_Jr.

Pocahontas through descendant Jane Rolfe who  married Richard Randolph
Through his marriage to Jane Bolling, his children were lineal descendants of Pocahontas
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Rolfe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Randolph
related to Johnson line

President George Washington!!!!! 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington

President Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

President James Madison, 4th President of the United States
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison

President John Quincy Adams, 6th president
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams

William McKinley married Ann Jackson, George Eskridge descendant 

John Tyler 10th President. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler
President Tyler and Grandfather share an ancestor 

President Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Taylor
his daughter married a Bliss relative 

Richard Lee (1726–1795) -he was the first cousin to Founding Fathers Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee—both signers of the Declaration of Independence. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_%22Squire%22_Lee
related to Johnsons

President Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter
descendant of Sir Knight Lancelot Strother through Johnsons (also my ancestor) 


William Foushee - 
 Surgeon in the Revolution. First Mayor of Richmond Virginia
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foushee

Marie Antoniette related to Foushee 

Reverend Daniel Marshall of Georgia, missionary to Cherokee Indians
 http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/daniel-marshall-1706-1784

Henry Gaines Slaughter, ancestor 
Murdered by revenge
https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/k/i/s/Craig-H-Kisabeth/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0118.html

John Wise colonial
Hannah Wise, daughter, is ancestor of Grandma
John Wise, son, is ancestor of Grandfather 

Henry Alexander Wise 1806-1876
 lawyer and politician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Wise

John Sergeant Wise 1846-1913
author, lawyer, and politician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sergeant_Wise

Henry A Wise 1906-1982
lawyer and politician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Wise_(New_York_state_senator)


Basil Gildersleeve -American classical scholar. 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Lanneau_Gildersleeve
related to ancestor John Pittman III

 Katherine Lane Weems (daughter of Basil Gildersleeve)
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Lane_Weems

Amelia Earhart 
related to Grandfather through A.R. Johnson ancestor 

Samuel Eskridge Kenner, 
 Member of House of Representatives South Carolina
  
 Andrew Robinson Johnson Sr - 
 (special thanks to Michael Stone Johnson for some A R Johnson family pictures) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.R._Johnson_(Louisiana_politician) 
(great x 2 grandfather)


Judge Thomas Land Sr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Thompson_Land
Ancestor of Gammon Nesbitt, husband of Sunshine Johnson Nesbitt

Sunshine R. Johnson-Nesbitt 
(You Are My Sunshine inspired by Aunt Sunshine,  childhood friend LA Gov. Jimmie Davis made that song famous)
 (great aunt, who I am named after)

Major General Major Samuel White (family secret  -- nephew of Houdini, confirmed with census) http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/105242/major-general-major-s- white.aspx
 (Married great aunt Dot, and also Grandfather's sister-platonic-)

Henry Warren Ogden - U.S. Congressman, wealthy planter in Bossier Parish.  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Warren_Ogden

Royal Harwood Frost 
(25 February 1879 – 11 May 1950) 
American astronomer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Harwood_Frost
his son married Grandfather's relative Jane Johnson  and is blood related by ancestor Edmund Frost (as well as Charles Sumner Frost on this list) 


James Taylor Ellyson
(May 20, 1847 – March 18, 1919)
former Confederate soldier, as well as Virginia lawyer and Democratic politician, who served in several positions in his native Richmond, Virginia and statewide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Taylor_Ellyson
(Ancestor is Gerard Ellyson whose daughter married my Johnson ancestor)

Barack Obama II 44th President 
through his mother's ancestor Richard FitzAlan 1346-1397 brother to Joan FitzAlan, ancestor to Grandfather through his mother's line. 

Charles Edgar Eskridge 1895-1972
Eskridge on June 18, 1936, was found guilty of murder of Ed O'Reilly was the police chief and had been a member of First Baptist Church
The Rev. Edgar Eskridge, who has baptized O'Reilly a couple of years earlier, was his slayer.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73456797/charles-edgar-eskridge

Tom Stewart Lee
senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stewart_Lee
great nephew of AR Johnson I 

ELVIS PRESLEY my 10th cousin through Captain Samuel Marshall 

P I T T M A N
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John Pittman
murdered by Scott on excursion train 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7340940/john_i_pittman/

Aaron Rodgers

Julianna and Derek Hough

possible relation
authors 
Allison Pittman
https://www.allisonkpittman.com/
Craig Pittman
https://craigpittman.com/Craig_Pittman_Bio.html
Craig Pittman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Pittman

B R A N S T E T T E R
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Pepin of Italy 777-810
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepin_of_Italy
ancestor 

Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Dacre,_1st_Baron_Dacre

Descendant of William Livingstone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Livingstone,_6th_Lord_Livingston

Alexander Livingston, 5th Lord Livingston
the guardian of Mary, Queen of Scots, during her childhood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Livingston,_5th_Lord_Livingston

Mayflower William Brewster is ancestor of Grandpa! 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brewster_(Mayflower_passenger)
his daughter Fear married fellow Mayflower passenger Isaac Allerton


John Howland left England on the Mayflower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howland
grandpa ancestor 

John Tilley Mayflower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tilley_(Mayflower_passenger)
grandpa ancestor 

Alec Baldwin, actor
share ancestor John Howland 

John Lothrop 
He was among the first settlers of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Perhaps Lothropp's principal claim to fame is that he was a strong proponent of the idea of the Separation of Church and State (also called "Freedom of Religion")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lothropp

Henry Wheeler
arrived at Jamestown, survived the Indian massacre of 1622 that devastated the colony.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127622501/henry-wheeler

Robert Hunter
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124558546/robert-hunter

Benedict Arnold BOOOOOO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold
John Bliss (relative of Nan) married cousin of Benedict's ancestor (related to grandpa)

Benjamin Franklin 
relative of Grandpa 

Laura Ingalls-Wilder
Author
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1625/laura-elizabeth-wilder
shares ancestor with Nan

 Tennese Ernie Ford
 American recording artist and television
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Ernie_Ford
 http://www.wargs.com/other/fordej.html

Also working on connection to Ronald Reagan first wife !!!! 

Allen Branstetter trumpeter for band St Paul and the Broken Bones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul_and_The_Broken_Bones

Grandpa is a descendant of Musser menonites of Lancaster PA 
https://silo.tips/download/history-of-the-musser-family-in-lancaster-county-pennsylvania-part-one-alice-kal

Grandpa shares ancestor Iodena Pecche Hunt with President Calvin Coolidge 


Neil Gorsuch is an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch

Daniel Boone, great uncle of my uncle in law 
James Dean
related to Grandpa and Grandfather 

William Marshal, Knight 
Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman.[2] He served five English kings—Henry II, his sons the "Young King" Henry, Richard I, and John, and finally John's son Henry III.
Knighted in 1166
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marshal,_1st_Earl_of_Pembroke

William Marshal ancestor Dermot MacMurrough
King of Leinster in Ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermot_MacMurrough
He was seen in Irish history as the king that invited the first-ever wave of English settlers, who were planted by the Norman conquest. The invasion had a great deal of impact on Irish Christianity, increasing the de facto ability of the Holy See to regulate Christianity in Ireland.

T E A G U E 
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Trying to find info on Edward Dimick ancestor seeing if he is related to Tolland CT colonist DIMICKS, that would be FAAABULLOUUSSS!!!!!

William Eure 1st Baron Eure
English knight and soldier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Eure,_1st_Baron_Eure


Oliver Cromwell 
English military and political leader. He served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland "and of the dominions thereto belonging" from 1653 until his death, acting simultaneously as head of state and head of government of the new republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell
related to both my grandmothers

Edward Hill
he fought off the Indians and escaped the massacre of 1622
through Parlee Hill Mcintosh 

William Howe McElwain, 1867-1908
By Henry Greenleaf Pearson
Shoe manufacturer 

The two brothers, Jacob and Moses were American Pioneers.
Jacob's world was the cotton growing South, Vicksburg, and New Orleans, where he established the city's largest commission house. He was a trusted adviser of Jefferson Davis and his closest friend. Davis died in Jacob's Garden District Home.
Moses, one of the largest land owners in America, was known as the "Millionaire Preacher". He established retail stores and manufacturing enterprises; outfitted emigrants going west with wagons, oxen , mules and supplies and equipment they would need in their new homes, and escorted at least one oxen train to the West Coast. 
(remains of Confederate President Jefferson Davis were prepared for burial by Bultman Funeral Home)

https://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Patriots-Brothers-Jacob-Moses-ebook/dp/B00OBL1S3C

RIchard III 1452-1485
subject of Shakespeare play Richard III. 
English nobleman known as the namesake of Buckingham's rebellion
one of the primary suspects in the disappearance (and presumed murder) of his nephews, the Princes in the Tower.
Executed Henry Stafford 1455-1483 who was spouse to Catherine Woodville, relative to grandma. 

Joseph Smith 
Founder of the Mormon Church
shares ancestor Joseph Loomis with Grandma

Justin Rolph Loomis
fourth president of Bucknell University from 1858 to 1879 (succeeded  Nan relative George Ripley Bliss who was 2 term president of Bucknell)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Rolph_Loomis

Wash Loomis Gang 
https://www.theloomisgang.org/the-wash-loomis-story/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Loomis
toy developer and marketer 

Benoni Jones, ancestor of Grandma
https://www.historiceasthampton.com/The_1704_Attack.html
13th of May 1704 the Indians went upon Mount Tom and observed the situation of the place. As the meadow was then covered by water, they supposed the village could be taken and that no aid could come seasonably from the town on account of the intervening flood. A little before daylight the Indians attacked. The people surrendered, and all of the families [Moses Hutchinson, John Searl, Benoi Jones, Samuel Janes] were killed or taken prisoners.



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George Washington is my 7th cousin seven times removed!
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington is my 3rd cousin seven times removed!
Marie Antoinette is my 4th cousin eight times removed!
Franklin D. Roosevelt is my 6th cousin four times removed!
Helen Keller is my 6th cousin four times removed!
Susan B. Anthony is my 6th cousin five times removed!
Abraham Lincoln is my 7th cousin four times removed!
Charles Dickens is my 7th cousin seven times removed!
Isabel, Princesa Imperial do Brasil is my 7th cousin five times removed!
Queen Victoria is my 7th cousin five times removed!
Simón Bolívar is my 7th cousin six times removed!
Wilbur Wright is my 7th cousin three times removed!
Emily Dickinson is my 8th cousin four times removed!
Lucille Ball is my 8th cousin once removed!
Muhammad Ali is my 8th cousin four times removed!
Princess Diana is my 8th cousin twice removed!
Queen Elizabeth II is my 8th cousin three times removed!
George VI is my 9th cousin three times removed!
Walt Disney is my 8th cousin twice removed!
Winston Churchill is my 8th cousin twice removed!
Dwight D. Eisenhower is my 9th cousin four times removed!
Ginger Rogers is my 9th cousin twice removed!
Kate Sheppard is my 9th cousin three times removed!
Mary Tyler Moore is my 9th cousin three times removed!
Shirley Temple is my 9th cousin twice removed!
Bob Ross is my 10th cousin once removed!
Fred Rogers is my 10th cousin once removed!
Grace Kelly is my 10th cousin four times removed!
Ernest Rutherford is my 11th cousin three times removed!
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis is my 11th cousin three times removed!
Judy Garland is my 7th cousin four times removed!
Margaret Thatcher is my 11th cousin three times removed!

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 INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING SURNAMES 
 WAS FOUND IN
  "A Mighty Roar Beyond the Mesh and Lares and Penates" written/put together by Noi Celecta Bliss-Seymour and family.  (some of the following surnames may not have source and this would be it)
 SEYMOUR
 BLISS (also Aaron Bliss 3 volumes on ancestry!!!) 
 MARTINEZ
 TREDWAY
 WHITE
 BUCHAN
 PHILLIPS
 see also:
 Pittman Family Record
 Eskridge Family Record 
 Johnson family record
 Branstetter family history



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​"He who is not proud of his ancestors, either shows that he has no ancestors to be proud of, or 
 else that he is a degenerate son." — Grosvenor
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Oh ever since the dawn of mankind
 We all belong to a tribe
 It's good to know this one's mine
 -Gavin DeGraw, Fire
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see my newspaper clippings I've found
https://www.newspapers.com/clippings/#user=1525718
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw7xgRRFdNe/
 Aziz Ansari, comic and actor,  on misunderstanding ghosts
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In the past year, over 800,000 Americans have died. Despite millions of dollars of research, death continues to be our nation's number one killer. Although, so far there's no known treatment for death's crippling effects, still everyone can acquaint himself with the three early warning signs of death: one, rigor mortis; two, a rotting smell; three, occasional drowsiness. It is also important to know what to do you when you die. 1) Don't try to drive a car. 2) Do not operate heavy machinery. 3) Do not talk. -Henry Gibson: Himself (segment "United Appeal for the Dead "), The Kentucky Fried Movie
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President George Washington!!!!! 
President Thomas Jefferson, third President
President James Madison, 4th President
James Monroe 5th President 
President John Quincy Adams, 6th president
Andrew Jackson 7th U.S. President
William Henry Harrison 9th president
John Tyler 10th President. 
James Polk 11th president, ancestor of cousin in law 
President Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the
Millard Fillmore 13th U.S. President
Franklin Pierce 14th USA President
President James Buchanan, 15th President 
Abraham Lincoln 16th President - almost related 
Andrew Johnson 17th president connection to my ancestor Nicholas Johnson through marriage 
Grant, Ulysses 18th US President
Rutherford Hayes 19th USA President
James Garfield 20th president related to grandpa
Benjamin Harrison shares ancestor with me
Grover Cleveland 22 24 pres shared ancestor with nan 
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States -marrried into
T Roosevelt shared anc with grandpa
William Howard Taft 27th U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson 28th President - Married into 
Calvin Coolidge 30th President
Roosevelt 32nd  
Lyndon B Johnson - connection to ancestor Nicholas Johnson through marriage 
Richard Nixon 37th 
jimmy ford 
Jimmy Carter 
GHWBush
GWBush
Barack Obama II 44th President
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