Do you have a famous relative?

Question

Anyone else have famous relatives? I'm related to Laura Ingalls Wilder who wrote the Little House on the Prarie books, and I've been told I'm also related to T. Roosevelt. What about you?

Answer 1

I was always told as a child that I'm distantly related to Gen. Robert E. Lee on my paternal grandmother's side. Many families in the South, however, have always bragged about being descended from him, so I'm not so sure.

Answer 2

my grandmother was a 3rd cousin to charlie chaplain,

Answer 3

As a Clanton relative whose family was out of Georgia, related to the Clantons in the OK corrall shootout

Answer 4

john quincy adams

Answer 5

My great uncle was the first man to die of malaria during the building of the Panama Canal.

Answer 6

Scottish poet Robert Burns and General Gordon (Charlton Heston in the film Khartoum)

Answer 7

Luke Kelly(by marriage) and Deirdre O'Connell.  And Geraldine O'Connell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Kelly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deirdre_O%2...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_O...

Answer 8

Many - as do we all