This week's Featured Connections are famous Kentuckians. Thanks to wikitree.com, I
learned that I am:
17 degrees from Abraham Lincoln
17 degrees from Muhammad Ali
16 degrees from Cassius Clay, the father of Muhammad Ali
14 degrees from Josephine Henry, an American Progressive Era women's rights leader,
suffragist, social reformer, and writer
30 degrees from Alberta Jones, an attorney and civil rights icon
16 degrees from Alice Lloyd, cofounder of Caney Junior College
19 degrees from Harland Sanders, best known for creating a fast-food chicken recipe
upon which the restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (now known as KFC) was founded.
18 degrees from Margaret Sissons, who served in the First World War in France at a
British Army Hospital, and was the most decorated Kentucky woman veteran serving in
World War I.
19 degrees from Cora Stewart, the first woman elected president of the Kentucky
Education Association
19 degrees from Jesse Stuart, a school teacher and administrator, author, and a poet
laureate of Kentucky
16 degrees from William Sutton, a famous physician. Dr. Sutton is one of several
memorable people whose names are inscribed on the plaque at the entrance of the
Georgetown Cemetery
It is always interesting to visit the past to see how we are related to each other. I have
some ancestors that were black, bank robbers, politicians physicians, detectives, actors,
comedians. I guess that I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are.
If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me
some basic information by going to:
https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm and click on the 'Request Form'
link.
I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history.
Mike Dippel
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