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knewslady
True Blue Farmgirl
555 Posts
Kathy
Russellville
KY
USA
555 Posts |
 Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 5:26:51 PM
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anyone famous or half way famous? I love family history stories.
The only famous person in our family and probably only people from Kentucky may recognize his name is my first cousin Terry Wilcutt.
Terry was the first Kentuckian to be chosen for the Nasa program and has been the pilot on two missions and mission commander on two more.
His brother, Kevin Wilcutt, was the first President Bush helicopter pilot.
It seems those Wilcutt boys turn out better than us Wilcutt girls.
But then again there is the family history about the Wilcutt that was hung in Oklahoma in the 1800s sometime for horse stealing.
I can't wait to hear your stories.
Kathy
Will always be a farmgirl at heart
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frannie
True Blue Farmgirl
2246 Posts
fran
bonham
texas
USA
2246 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 5:39:07 PM
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my dh is related to isreal boone, the brother of daniel boone.
my first dh' family had a couple of famous folks in it, so i guess my children have 2 famous relatives.
my children's aunt was gene tierney the movie actress and i got to spend a couple of holidays with her when they were young. she was a beautiful person and she was also kind. my children's grandfather was from the family that was part of the prototype for the movie Giant.
edna ferber based the character that james dean played on a wildcat oil man who was named glen mc carthy. he was an uncle of my first husand's so i guess he was my children's uncle. i never met him cause as an older man he was kinda reclusive.
my immediate family on my side has no one famous that i know of.
we were all just "regular" folks. i guess my kids got their good looks and humility from me.hehehehehe ....oops, sorry i fell off my chair laughing at myself.
good topic, id love to hear from others about famous relatives, or even meeting famous folks.
love
fran
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl
4745 Posts
Dawn
Naperville
Illinois
USA
4745 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 7:07:09 PM
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I'm unaware of anyone famous in my family, but my husband's family were former kings in Iran a few hundred years ago! They ruled for about 300 years. His family tree has been traced back over 700 years!
Dawn in IL |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 7:22:12 PM
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My mom's maternal grandfather is a direct decendent of William the Conqueror!
What a great topic!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
Please come visit Nora and I our our new blog:
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 7:39:29 PM
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I am sorta in a roundabout way related to Kristi Yamaguchi the skater (yep!!) My ex husband's brother's ex wife married her uncle. So there.(grinning)
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2909 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
2909 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 7:39:56 PM
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| On my father's side...Sir Francis Drake |
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bboopster
True Blue Farmgirl
1140 Posts
Betty Jo
West Bend
Wisconsin
USA
1140 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 7:45:06 PM
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I'm not related to anyone famous that I know of, but maybe I will be famous someday.
http://www.bboopster.blogspot.com
3 Blue Star Mother and Proud of it!
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
Enjoying the road to the simple life :>) |
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2909 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
2909 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 7:51:57 PM
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| Oh Aunt Jenny,I am so impressed, I am an ex figure skater & Kristi is such an awesome lady!!! |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 8:08:18 PM
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I met her briefly at my sis in law's wedding..she was very sweet.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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babysmama
True Blue Farmgirl
931 Posts
Elizabeth
Iowa
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Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 8:09:50 PM
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I am related to one of the signers of the Decloration of Independence. I forget his name at the moment but will look it up.
-Elizabeth |
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
Jessica
Kentucky
USA
1132 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 8:27:31 PM
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Texas Frannie...looks like we go back almost together! Squire Boone, the brother of Daniel Boone, is a direct descent in my family. I searched further back and there were quite a few Kings and Queens of England, Spain, and a couple of other places. Gosh, I should drag out that family tree book of mine and comb through it and report back. Who knows...we all may be related in one way or another. :)
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Farmgirl Sisterhood #137
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow...
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
1495 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 8:32:28 PM
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i'm not related to anyone famous, but i do come from a long line of trouble makers. my dad's paternal side was a border clan run out of scotland with both the scots and brits after them for stealing horses on both sides of the boarder. my moms family was french/indian fur traders and horse thieves.
What we write today slipped into our souls some other day when we were alone and doing nothing.
-Brenda Ueland
http://quilandneedle.blogspot.com/ |
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Tracey
True Blue Farmgirl
766 Posts
Tracey
State of Confusion
USA
766 Posts |
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La Patite Ferme
True Blue Farmgirl
623 Posts
Jenn
CA
USA
623 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 8:52:28 PM
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My Gma (on mom's side) did a lot of geneology going back to the 1600's, but no one famous. Dad's family was never very big on family history stuff so I'm not sure. I've tried to do some investigating, but not seriously.
XH's family was traced back to John Howland (sp?). He came over on the Mayflower and his house is the only surviving building of the era in Plymouth - never been there though. Also related to one of the Wright Brother's - forget which one. |
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frannie
True Blue Farmgirl
2246 Posts
fran
bonham
texas
USA
2246 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 9:17:44 PM
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jessica, this is too funny, i told my dh that one of my farmgirl friends was also a "boone sister". thats what they call them in his family.
i honestly dont know about any famous people in my biological family because i was adopted and dont know anything about my birth parents.
i was told my whole life that i was irish, and then about a year ago i got an email asking if i would like to know the name of my biological moom, and since both of my real parents have passed away i thought it would be okay to explore that. anyway, turns out i am not irish, at least on my mom's side, im acadian.
it really makes you think what does it all really mean? but i have always enjoyed hearing other folks family stories and who they are related to.....but i also think untimately we are all related to each other.
love
fran
(http://farmfolks-frannie.blogspot.com/) |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 10:02:52 PM
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my husband is descended from the last judge that presided over the Salem Witch trials..Jonathan Corwin
he would be my husband's great,great,great ++ grandfather..however many removed that is..wayyyy back yonder..ha.
and my great,great grandfather on my real dad's side was was supposed to have helped settle some of the Irish in Utah..at least that's the story that's been passed down to me ..whether that part is true or not I dunno...but the Jonathan Corwin one is.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
1573 Posts
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Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 10:09:59 PM
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I grsaduated high school- Burbank high class of '76 with director Tim Burton! My claim to any fame!!!LOL!
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars,or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller |
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peggysue
True Blue Farmgirl
267 Posts
Peggy
Tulsa
Oklahoma
267 Posts |
Posted - Feb 11 2008 : 01:30:32 AM
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my ex-hubby is related to pretty boy floyd on his father's side, and on my father's side, i am related to ned christie, a famous indian outlaw.
visit me at my blog
mousiesmom.wordpress.com |
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
1495 Posts |
Posted - Feb 11 2008 : 04:06:02 AM
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ok, i love the ned christie confession!!!!!!!! outlaws have always facinated me.
What we write today slipped into our souls some other day when we were alone and doing nothing.
-Brenda Ueland
http://quilandneedle.blogspot.com/ |
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
2421 Posts |
Posted - Feb 11 2008 : 04:58:22 AM
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I'm related to Ben Franklin on my dads side! And my boys are related to John Wesley Hardin, the gunfighter! Did you hear, everyone who has blue eyes is suspose to be related and can be traced back to one person? LOL I really did hear that on the evening news the other night! LOL
Visit me at my blogs:
www.countrypleasures.blogspot.com
My Etsy store:
www.heart2home.etsy.com
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Feb 11 2008 : 06:09:41 AM
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Well, probably only girls from Louisiana would think this interesting, or not, depending on how they were raised politically, but my maiden name is Long, as in Huey P. Long (The Kingfish) and my father and Huey (and Earl) were 2 cousins. Daddy was a young boy in Tioga, Louisiana when Huey was assasinated. Daddy had the dimple in his chin and I do, too, though (thankfully) not as pronounced.
My friend Kristin (who was born and raised in New Orleans) introduced me to her grandmother and grandfather, but not before telling me that if she remarked on my last name (Long) NOT to be goaded into who I was related to because her grandparents hated him so much!!!! She said that when her grandmother was a young woman, over dinner, the men would talk about how to kill Huey P!!!!
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
1323 Posts
Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
1323 Posts |
Posted - Feb 11 2008 : 10:10:03 AM
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On father's side, we are descendents of Henry Morgan (buccaneer, privateer and Gov. of Jamaica.)
"You cannot find peace...by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe |
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
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kissmekate
True Blue Farmgirl
890 Posts
Kate
Delano
Minnesota
890 Posts |
Posted - Feb 11 2008 : 10:36:53 AM
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I am somehow related on my Dad's side to former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
My Scottish decendants were once upon a time Irish Kings until they had to resettle in Scotland a LONG, LONG time ago. Not too sure on the dates, I'd have to look it up, if I still have the information lying around. So, I guess when I call my daughter "your Highness" I am not too far off the mark.
This is fun!!
Don't miss out on a blessing, just because it isn't packaged the way you expected. ~MaryJo Copeland |
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