Katherine & Elijah's famous cousins

At present I show my children have a kinship with six Presidents, a gold miner, a signer of the Constitution, several Governors and Generals, a couple of outlaws and a few other well known people.

Connections through Gladys Bennett

Through the Boone family Katherine & Elijah connect to Daniel Boone and President Dwight Eisenhower. Lige & Kate are related to Thomas Morris through their Henton ancestry. Mark Twain is related through the Montgomery family. Katherine & Elijah are kin to Davy Crockett by way of their Crockett ancestry. President Richard Nixon and Vice President Al Gore are cousins to Elijah & Katherine through the Maris family. Among Kate & Lige's Gist relations are Christopher Gist, Mordecai Gist, States Rights Gist, William Henry Gist, Seqouyah and the sons of Francis Preston Blair, Sr., Francis, Jr. and Montgomery. And through the McCune family my children are kin to President George Bush and his son George W. Bush.

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Connections through Cliff Powell

This chart shows how Elijah & Katherine are related to the outlaw Kinch West.

Dean Rusk's relationship to Kate & Lige can be seen on this chart.

Connections through Velma Gable

Through their Ingersoll ancestry Katherine & Elijah are connected to Constitution signer and Federalist vice-presidential candidate Jared Ingersoll, and Presidents Rutherford Hayes and Franklin Roosevelt through the parents of Sarah Ashley who married Thomas Ingersoll

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Elijah & Katherine are related to President Richard Nixon through the Norris family as well as you can see on this chart.

On this chart you can see how Kate & Lige are related to Oklahoma Governor Leon Chase Phillips.

Connections through Nina Belle Howard

Elijah & Katherine are descendants of the same Pickens family as General Andrew Pickens, South Carolina Governors Andrew Pickens and Francis Pickens, and Alabama Governor Israel Pickens.

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On this chart you can see how Lige & Kate descend from Green Russell, the man who started the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.

Connections through Tommy Lee Jackson

Katherine & Elijah are kin to Confederate General John Singleton Mosby and the outlaws Frank and Jesse James, as you can see on this chart.