"FAMOUS" FAMILY MEMBERS

I bet we all have a few

J

Allerton, Isaac 13th great-grandfather

On the Mayflower

5th signer of compact

Boggs, Lilburn W. Husband of the 3rd cousin 7 times removed

The former Governor of Missouri, was also with the train. In 1838, Boggs, while Governor of Missouri, had dispatched six thousand militia to attack the Mormons in Ray and Daviess Counties, Missouri. This was done by his issuance of the infamous "Extermination Order" of 27 October 1838. The Mormons have not forgotten the event, even to this day.

Boone, Daniel 1st cousin 9 times removed

Frontiersman

Boone, Richard Allen 7th cousin 3 times removed

Actor

Bradford, William III 11th great-grandfather

Governor of Plimouth Colony, Plymouth, Mass.

Brown, John 5th cousin 7 times removed

Abolitionist, Leader of the raid at Harper Valley,Virginia.

Charlemagne 41st great-grandfather

King of France 768-814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor December 25, 800.

Cleveland, Stephen Grover 6th cousin 5 times removed

22nd and 24th President of the United States

Cody, William Frederick 3rd cousin 4 times removed

Buffalo hunter

Scout for the Northern Army

Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth 5th cousin 8 times removed

Poet

Ford, Gerald Rudolph 10th cousin 3 times removed

(King, Leslie Lynch,Jr. 10th cousin 3 times removed)

38th President of the United States

Grant, Ulysses Simpson 6th cousin 7 times removed

Army General

18th President of the United States

Hemingway, Ernest 9th cousin 3 times removed

Novelist, short story writer, Journalist

Lincoln, Abraham 6th cousin 6 times removed

12th President of the United States

Mix, Thomas Hezikiah "Edwin" 8th cousin 3 times removed

Western Actor

Porter, William Sydney, O’Henry 8th cousin 5 times removed

Short story writer

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 7th cousin 5 times removed

32nd President of the United States

Smith, Joseph 5th cousin 6 times removed

Founder, First President and Prophet of the Church of Latter Day Saints.

Spencer, Diana Frances 17th cousin 4 times removed

Princess of Wales

William Arthur Phillip Louis Windsor of Wales 18th cousin 3 times removed

Prince

Windsor, Henry Charles Albert David 18th cousin 3 times removed

Prince

Williams, William 4th cousin 9 times removed

Revolutionary Patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence

Wright, Orville 9th cousin 4 times removed

Inventor of the airplane

Wright, Wilbur 9th cousin 4 times removed

Inventor of the airplane

And from my neck of the woods:

Boone, Alphonso D. 3rd cousin 7 times removed

Established Boone's Ferry which continued to run for 107 years (it was taken out of service in 1954 when a bridge was built across the Willamette). The main road running through parts o f Tualatin and Lake Oswego, Oregon is named Boones Ferry Road.

Finn, Charles Eugene Husband of the 2nd great-grandaunt

His father Benjamin "Huckleberry" Finn "surely was the greatest liar on the McKenzie"

Hendricks, Thomas Grundy 1st cousin 4 times removed

Businessman, founder First National Bank, sold land for campus, avid supporter of UO, UO Regent for 24 years, 1 of founders of Eugene Water Co., Mayor 1881-83, County School Superintendent 1870-74, Oregon State Senator, donated land for Hendricks Park.

Scholl, Peter 4th cousin 6 times removed

Scholls Ferry and Scholls Ferry Road are all well-known geographic

names in the Tualatin Valley. These features were named for Peter Scholl,

a pioneer of 1847, who took up a donation claim nearby.

In early days Scholls Ferry was one of the important crossings of the Tualatin River.

Skinner, Eugene Franklin 5th cousin 7 times removed

Founder of Eugene,Oregon

Whitman, Marcus 5th cousin 7 times removed

The Marcus Whitman family were killed by the Cayuse Indians under the leadership of Chief Tiloukaikt. The Cayuse took revenge for what they felt was treachery.

Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa founded a mission,September 1,1836 in the Walla Walla Valley for the Cayuse Indians. The Cayuse were not receptive. With the coming of the whites,also came diseases which ravished the Indians. When an epidemic of measles killed nearly all of the Cayuse children, the Cayuse took their revenge. They killed 14 whites,including the Whitmans. Marcus was struck in the head with a tomahawk and Narcissas was shot. 40 women and children were carried away to captivity.