I have a few, How about YOU?

My 3rd. great grand father on my mother's side was the first governor of the Republic of Texas. He also made the seal of Texas. His son in law, my 2nd. great grand father was a cattle baron in S. Tx with nearly 200k acres under fence. And all I have left of it is 7 acres.

My second great grand father on my father's side was BF Sturtevant, inventor of industrial fans. My great grand father on my father's side was a 2 term governor of Massachusetts.

My great uncle on my father's side was a senator from Illinois.

So, with all that history why didn't I do better?

Yep, a couple presidents, signers of the Deceleration of Independence and someone who helped move West Point along in a big way.

My grandfathers, grandfather and father were oil men, and his father was a judge. Sadly we didn't stay in the oil business.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

An inventor who created something that you use everyday, as well as these guys...

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

I'm descended from a child born to Captain Henry Morgan and his black slave.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Juan Ponce de León and Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard are known to be in the woodpile with Ponce actually traced via Spain (Where my surname is based) but Ed is a rumor.

My grandfather commanded Destroyers in WWII I think that makes him pretty important... Heck it was bigger then a PT boat

This was one of his ships. He saw her decommissioned at the end of the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Fanning_%28DD-385%29

He later bought my grandmother a Mercedes 300D and then a 300SD... which you see in my signature today!

This fellow is a branch of the old family tree, it branches off some time around the Civil War. But he is an interesting contributer to history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B_Conant

I saw his name on a top secret document giving the order to drop the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima when I was in Hiroshima at the museum.


And this fellow, standing outside the witch museum in Salem Mass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Conant_%28Salem%29

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A notable Spanish explorer whose surname I bear, and a well known Sheriff in New Mexico who Disney made a movie about a long time ago. My great uncle Eusebio spent a number of years being the oldest man convicted to Florence AZ federal penitentiary for allegedly stealing and butchering a hog from his neighbor. It was suspicious, the animal apparently had a tendency to wander and root around in others' gardens.

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You're a daisy if you do.
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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

Anne Howard

My Great Great Aunt was his wife.

My Great X7 Uncle built the main bridge in Dublin in 1831 which still stands.

My great Uncle Bob was the Chief Engineer of the Australian Railway and built the longest straight line track in the world across the Great Sandy Desert. His daughter was one of the founders of Qantas.

My Father is the creator of Public Access TV

Robert the Bruce is the farthest back I have been in research (if 2841 Scotsmen drop dead I am the Earl of Elgin).

My Mother's Father used to race Borroughs motorcycles with a guy named TE Lawrence.

Back during the American Revolution, one end of the family were rice planters in South Carolina and owned a piece of land named Hilton Head until they picked the wrong side in the war (they were Tories) and lost everything (****!).

My fathers Great Granny went west with Daniel Boone and was one of the founding families of Cadiz, Kentucky. 90% of the Crenshaws and Edgertons in the South are cousins of mine. So are all of the Eastern Cherokee tribe as one of her daughters married a Cherokee scholar/Minister.

I was one of the team of folks who helped develop and patent what is now the Vistakon/Acuvue soft contact lens when I worked at Frontier Contact Lenses in FLA when I was in High School in the 1970's.

Not a whole lot, but my great grandfather was a president's uncle, although the branch of the family I was born into is not politically active. I have considered getting into politics, but given my name my political stance is about opposite of what you would expect. Instead, I work for a living.
My mother's side of the family has been traced back to the late 1500s, and it was discovered that my ancestors were here quite a while before the Mayflower set sail. I have been told that I get my restlessness from her side of the family, they are all over the US, England, Canada, France and a few other countries now.

A Nobel prize winner, a New York state assemblyman, Martha (Custis) Washington, and a jurist on the first Supreme Court of Maine in 1636.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

My grandfather served 30 days in jail for making moonshine during Prohibition.

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'85 300SD (formerly california emissions)
'08 Chevy Tahoe
'93 Ducati 900 SS
'79 Kawasaki KZ 650
'86 Kawasaki KX 250
'88 Kawasaki KDX200
'71 Hodaka Ace 100
'72 Triumph T100R

A Brother has a patented software format/program adopted by the huge multi-bazillion dollar company he works for. If that's whatcha mean by interesting, I won't do any tooting.......

Sylvester Joseph "Steve" Wittman, Air-racer, airplane designer and builder...from my mother's side of the family. Wittman Airport, Oshkosh, WI., site of the Annual E.A.A. "Air Adventure" Convention/Show, is named after him. He managed the airport and related facilities from the 30s on through to the later 60s/early 70s. Steve died just short of a month after his 91st birthday...doing what he loved...flying. His plane went down with his wife in Alabama in April of 1995. He was still piloting the plane upon impact...I believe they determined that his plane had iced up and he couldn't do anything but ride it into the ground. The autopsy determined that Steve was still alive and fighting to control the plane due to the way the hands and arms were fractured...had a "death grip" on the yoke all the way to the end.

I have a great-(to some unknown power) grandmother that ran for president back in the later 1800s under the Prohibition Ticket...I can't remember the name...also from my mother's mother's side of the family...

Two of my original immigrant relatives from my dad's side of the family arrived in Wisconsin in 1848 and formed and settled two towns named after them and both towns still manage to exist to this day...although, a bit smaller and both are unincorporated...Johnsburg and Charlesburg, WI..

That's all for now...

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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