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re: Your random but interesting family history
Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:53 am to Pectus
Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:53 am to Pectus
My Great-Great Grandfather was the first paid school teacher in Franklin County Miss.
His son (my great-grandfather) was a Senior 2nd Lieutenant in the 14th Confederate Cavalry, which was lead by Gen. N. B. Forest.
His son (my great-grandfather) was a Senior 2nd Lieutenant in the 14th Confederate Cavalry, which was lead by Gen. N. B. Forest.
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Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:01 am to Pectus
My great great uncle was a farmer who lived out in the country. He stepped on a nail and the doctor came out in horse and buggy and found the foot infected. They strapped him to the kitchen table and sawed his leg off at the knee with no anesthesia.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:34 am to celltech1981
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:40 am to Pectus
descendant of William Wallace's Granddaughter. 
Posted on 6/29/18 at 11:44 am to Pectus
I thought I was white until I found out that my one of my great grandmothers was an African slave from the Congo. True story.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 11:46 am to piratedude
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is a confirmed thief.
he ripped off three chords didn't he?
Posted on 6/29/18 at 11:48 am to Pectus
They're white and farmers (cotton and soybean) and never owned a slave...despite current narratives and revisionist history
Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:05 pm to D.B.Cooper
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What book were you referring to?
It's pretty good so far. Building up to the strike and subsequent violence soon. Some good tidbits of military, political, and social information from the Era I didn't know.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:09 pm to Pectus
My 9G grandfather fought with Oliver Cromwell against the crown, and was later drawn and quartered when the monarchy was restored.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:16 pm to Ellssu
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Descendant of William Wallace's Granddaughter
Wallace had no children, you dolt.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:49 pm to Pectus
Had an uncle who got an arm shot off in the Korean War, he came back as a mean drunk. Not a nice guy and was prone to drunkeness and domestic violence.
One morning in 1969, he work up with a hangover after drinking all night long. His wife was dead in the bed beside him, she had been beaten to death. He called an ambulance but she was long gone.
The police arrested him for manslaughter and he served 11 years in Parchman in Mississippi doing hard time. One day they came and got him and said "you're free to go".
Came to find out that his wife had been having an affair but wanted to break it off. The dude told her "you can't quit on me" and decided to take matters into his own hands - he waited until my uncle was drunk and killed her, framing my passed out drunk uncle for her death. In 1980, he was told that he had stage four cancer and only a few weeks to live. Literally on his deathbed, he confessed to the crime and they released my uncle from prison.
Though he is long since gone, even my uncle would have said that prison was good for him. They dried him out, taught him a trade (he became a machinist), and gave him discipline that he had forgotten since the Army. Strange to say that prison could be good for anyone, but for him, it was.
One morning in 1969, he work up with a hangover after drinking all night long. His wife was dead in the bed beside him, she had been beaten to death. He called an ambulance but she was long gone.
The police arrested him for manslaughter and he served 11 years in Parchman in Mississippi doing hard time. One day they came and got him and said "you're free to go".
Came to find out that his wife had been having an affair but wanted to break it off. The dude told her "you can't quit on me" and decided to take matters into his own hands - he waited until my uncle was drunk and killed her, framing my passed out drunk uncle for her death. In 1980, he was told that he had stage four cancer and only a few weeks to live. Literally on his deathbed, he confessed to the crime and they released my uncle from prison.
Though he is long since gone, even my uncle would have said that prison was good for him. They dried him out, taught him a trade (he became a machinist), and gave him discipline that he had forgotten since the Army. Strange to say that prison could be good for anyone, but for him, it was.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:13 pm to mikelbr
Awesome. Thanks. I love reading on Louisiana History
Posted on 6/30/18 at 7:51 am to Pectus
At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is the highest point in Tennessee, and the third highest mountain east of the Mississippi. This is the view from there:
i don't spell it the same way, but it's still the same lineage....
i don't spell it the same way, but it's still the same lineage....
This post was edited on 6/30/18 at 7:53 am
Posted on 6/30/18 at 9:26 am to Pectus
Great great great great however many times was a captain in Cromwell’s army. Was considered one of his best soldiers and a friend. Came to America in 1683 and was one of the first Quaker settlers. His grandson or great grandson went on to sign the Declaration of Independence. Had another ancestor knighted by Anne Boleyn
Posted on 6/30/18 at 10:38 am to Pectus
One of my distant relatives sells home grown veggies at the farmers market.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 10:50 am to Pectus
Granfather’s Niece was married to Johnny Unitas.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 11:01 am to Pectus
No claim to royalty or fame. My great grandfather was shot off of his horse right outside of Denham Springs for cheating in a poker game.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 1:24 pm to geauxpurple
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My wife's grandfather from many generations up is the one who introduced the dice game of craps to the United States from Europe. H
Bernard de Marigny? He is also the founder of Mandeville and was the owner of Fontainebleau Plantation IIRC.
Posted on 6/30/18 at 1:51 pm to jimmy the leg
One of my paternal great-grandfathers tried to take out a "hit" on another paternal great-grandfather. The former was later killed in a gunfight in Covington in 1899 by the man whom he tried to hired to kill the latter.
My grandfather's first cousin, who was 26 at the time, was killed in a bushwhacking near, what is today, the intersection of Turnpike and Bennett Bridge Roads. The killers were targeting his uncle (the "former" in the above scenario), but killed the young man instead. He died on a table of multiple gunshot wounds at Singletary's Turpentine Still which was on the west side of Turnpike just before the Tanghipahoa Parish line.
One of my grandfather's uncles lost an arm at the Battle of Antietam, but came back to Louisiana and served in the State Legislature when Murphy Foster was governor. PTSD ultimately got the better of him and he died a the War Veterans Home in Jackson, LA.
I'm kin to George Armstrong Custer on my grandfather's mother's side of the family.
My grandfather's first cousin, who was 26 at the time, was killed in a bushwhacking near, what is today, the intersection of Turnpike and Bennett Bridge Roads. The killers were targeting his uncle (the "former" in the above scenario), but killed the young man instead. He died on a table of multiple gunshot wounds at Singletary's Turpentine Still which was on the west side of Turnpike just before the Tanghipahoa Parish line.
One of my grandfather's uncles lost an arm at the Battle of Antietam, but came back to Louisiana and served in the State Legislature when Murphy Foster was governor. PTSD ultimately got the better of him and he died a the War Veterans Home in Jackson, LA.
I'm kin to George Armstrong Custer on my grandfather's mother's side of the family.
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