Are you related to someone famous?
By Bee1955
@Bee1955 (3882)
United States
March 6, 2007 6:11pm CST
It could be recent or in the waaaay back past.
My great-great-great-great Thomas Matlock's (also spelled Matlack) handwriting is what is on the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson dictated to him and Matlock wrote it
out and edited it. (Its in the history books, folks!) If you remember Jefferson's messy signatures(he had severe arthritis), you KNOW his handwriting isnt on the D/I!So who is famous in your family?
5 responses
@emeraldisle (13138)
• United States
7 Mar 07
Well I'm related to the Deering that was part of John Deere. Yeah he was foolish enough to be bought out by his partner before they hit it big though :( Typical huh? Other then that I think one relative married a Rockifeller but again too distant for any money to trickle down this way. No one as famous as your guy :) But hey that's ok.
@Bee1955 (3882)
• United States
7 Mar 07
A dear friend from college, Jeanie McDonald, is related to the McDonald Brothers who sold their name and quickie hamburger preparation for $1,000.000.00 to Ray Kroc who made "McDonald's Hamburgers" a multi-billion dollar empire. She said her great-uncles took the million dollars and invested most of it in real estate - the wrong kind - and almost went bankrupt.
@Kellrae (69)
• United States
10 Mar 07
My Paw-paw's name is Theodore Roosevelt Strouhal. Other than that, I my great grandma was cousins with Bob Wells the old country singer.I didn't get to meet him,though. I went to school with George Strait's cousins.He was in my agriculture classes.They spoke to him quite often and would tell us funny stories about family reunions and such.
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@vicky19810 (1600)
• China
7 Mar 07
oh,it is a very funny discussion,but i do not know if i have some relationship to some famous.and i think almost i have not,as i have not been heard of it from my family.lol...
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@villageanne (8553)
• United States
7 Mar 07
All My relative are famous but not in the way you are refering to. My family is famous to me because they are just wonderful people. They are much better example than any of the so called famous poeple on TV
@Stringbean (1272)
• United States
7 Mar 07
I have no one famous in my background that I know of, but the discussion reminds me of a girl I went to school with. No matter what we were talking about, she always managed to inject something into our conversation about her famous relative. If we ask if she was going anywhere over the week-end, she would say something like, "No we are staying home this week-end because my uncle, Stewart Holbrook, the famous author, may stop by to see us." To my knowledge, he never did drop by, but I guess he was her uncle. I never bothered to read one of his books until after I grew up. It wasn't bad, but, as I recall, I only read one.
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