Famous Relations

Wow I'm amazed at who I am related to! If you were to do a search of your ancestors, you'd be amazed, too. I am still doing research on famous ancestors, so I am sure I will be adding more soon!
If you would like to contribute anything please let me know
by e-mailing me directly at
rebecca@digginforroots.com.
Signer of The Declaration of Independence, William Williams
19th President of the United States,
Rutherford B. Hayes
40th President of the United States,
Ronald Reagan
41st President of the United States,
George Herbert Walker Bush
First Lady, Ellen Louise Axson Wilson,
wife of President Woodrow Wilson
First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, wife of
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Inventors of the first successful
airplane, The Wright Brothers
American cook and author, Julia McWilliams
AKA Julia Child
American bank robber, Pretty Boy Floyd
American outlaw, Sam Bass
First woman to sit on the House of
Commons, Vicountess Nancy Astor
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Founder of airship
King of Rock N' Roll, Elvis Presley
Queen Elizabeth II
Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback, first African-American
governor of a U.S. State
Actor Laurence Olivier
Actress Ruby Dee
Actress Joan Crawford
Actor Marlon Brando
Actor John Wayne
Actor Cary Grant
Roger Sherman, only person to sign Declaration of Independence,
Continental Association, Articles of Confederation and
Constitution
Canadian physician, Sir William Osler
Legend of the Old American West, John Peters Ringo
American poet, Walt Whitman
English poet, Alfred Tennyson
Author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
English novelist, George Orwell
American novelist, Louisa May Alcott
English crime writer, Agatha Christie
OTHER RELATIVES THAT ARE FAMOUS
DAVID BARTON - FIRST SENATOR OF MISSOURI
[MY 1ST COUSIN, FOUR TIMES REMOVED]
REV. ISAAC BARTON - TENNESSEE BAPTIST
PREACHER
[6TH GREAT-GRAND UNCLE]
ELIJAH JONES DAVIDSON - DISCOVERED THE
OREGON CAVES
[MY HALF 3RD COUSIN, 4 TIMES REMOVED]
SAM HILDEBRAND - THE BIG RIVER BUSHWACKER
[2ND COUSIN, FOUR TIMES REMOVED OF HIS WIFE, MARGARET
HAMPTON HILDEBRAND]
SAM HILDEBRAND - AUTOBIOGRAPHY
[.PDF]
[HE MENTIONS MANY OF MY RELATIVES IN THE BOOK]
CAPTIAN IVEN CARL KINCHELOE, JR. - FIRST
HUMAN TO FLY OVER 100,000 FEET
[MY 4TH COUSIN, TWICE REMOVED]
SARAH BARTON MURPHY - HELD FIRST SUNDAY
SCHOOL WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI
[MY 6TH GREAT-GRANDMOTHER]
REV. JOHN ECLES MURPHY - PIONEER OREGON
CIRCUIT RIDING PREACHER
[MY HALF SECOND COUSIN, 5 TIMES REMOVED]
REV. WILLIAM MURPHY - TENNESSE BAPTIST
PREACHER
[MY 6TH GREAT-GRANDFATHER]
ROGER WILLIAMS - FOUNDER OF PROVIDENCE,
RHODE ISLAND
[MY 10TH GREAT-GRAND UNCLE]
Sources:
Email, Letters, Family Members.
