almost every president is.
Besides which:
Common Ancestors: Frances BURDETTE + Burr HARRISON (1637)
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Thomas(1665)+Sylvia Sybil(1669)+Thomas
HARRISON SHORT HARRISON WHITTLEDGE
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HARRISON HARRISON WHITTLEDGE
+ BARNES + BULLITT +OVERALL
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HARRISON BULLITT OVERALL
+ POWELL (3) (4)
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POWELL POWELL
(1) (2)
(1) = 6 generations to Brit Hume
(2) = 5 generations to Katherine Hepburn
(3) = 4 generations to Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, Seattle
philanthropist
(4) = 8 generations to Barack Obama
4. OBAMA Line: Ancestor Thomas WHITLEDGE shows up in the
historical record in Prince William County, Va. in the
neighborhood of the Hugenot Brentown Grant. In 1710 he
received part of a 900-acre piece of land.
His son William migrated to Kentucky with wife Frances
OVERALL. She was his cousin. According to one descendant,
"The Whitledges and Overalls have married each other so
many times that they are known as country cousins".
The WHITLEDGES began their migration to Kentucky in 1775, when
brother Robert WHITLEDGE went to Kentucky with Daniel BOONE.
Boone's "Boonesboro" (of which Hume ancestor Levin
POWELL became trustee) originated as a business deal. In
1774, Richard Henderson of North Carolina formed a land
speculation company (The Transylvania Company) with other
prominent North Carolinians. They "bought" 1/2 of
present-day Kentucky, 20 million acres, from the Cherokee.
The purchase was illegal, since at the time law forbid private
land purchases from the tribes - the right was reserved to the
government & crown. The Company hired BOONE to blaze a
road into Kentucky for future settlers (who would buy land
from the Company).
However, in 1776 the Virginia General Assembly negated the
Transylvania Company's authority. This is when POWELL became
trustee. In 1778 the Company's claim was declared void.
Many Virginians migrated to Kentucky during this era, among
them Abraham LINCOLN's father, Thomas & his parents.
By 1782, the entire WHITLEDGE family was in Kentucky. In
1792, Revolutionary War vet John OVERALL Jr. & wife
Frances nee WHITLEDGE were in Bullitt County, home of the
BULLITT ancestors. Their son Robert's wife Annie Browning was
a descendant of early Kentucky settlers, Revolutionary War
veterans, & a Chief Justice of the Virginia colony.
In 1850 Robert's son George Washington OVERALL is on the
Kentucky census with his extended family, farming with six
slaves. On the 1860 census, he & his nuclear family are
farming with 1 slave.
His wife, Louisiana DUVALL (1823), was a 3rd
great-granddaughter of the wealthy Huegenot immigrant Mareen
DUVALL of Maryland. VP CHENEY & President TRUMAN also
descend from him, & by 1800, their various related
ancestors are all in Kentucky.
OVERALL daughter Susan shows up on the Missouri census of 1880
married to Christopher Columbus CLARK, farmer. CLARK was born
in Missouri in 1846; his father was also a Missouri farmer.
His mother, Elizabeth DAVIS, was a relative of Jefferson
DAVIS.
Citizens of Missouri had been divided on the issue of the
Civil War. Consequently, several state militias were
organized, some for the Union, some for the Confederacy.
CLARK fought 51 days of active service for the Union in the
69th Regiment of the Enrolled Missouri Militia.
In 1910 CLARK's daughter Gabriela is on the Kansas census
married to Harry ARMOUR, a traveling salesman for a coal
company.
In the 1920 census the ARMOURs are living in Wichita, Kansas.
The household includes father-in-law Christopher Columbus
CLARK, ARMOUR daughter Ruth (19), her husband Ralph Waldo
Emerson DUNHAM (26), & the couple's two children. The
youngest is Stanley DUNHAM, President OBAMA's grandfather,
nearly two years old.
Harry ARMOUR is listed as an "oiler" in the oil
fields. Son-in-law DUNHAM is listed as "auto
mechanic" (possibly a not-so-common occupation in 1920,
12 years after the introduction of the Ford Model T.)
Inexplicably, the "Occupation" column for the
widowed Christopher Columbus CLARK, age 74, reads "own
ship".
DUNHAM's father Jacob was in Witchita too. He is variously
listed as a "drug manufacturer" or
"pharmacist" in the same period.
Ruth ARMOUR committed suicide in 1926. In the 1930 Kansas
census, her widowed husband Ralph W.E. DUNHAM is living in his
father's household in Witchita, working as a druggist. Father
Jacob is now listed as a "physician" (v. earlier
listings as drug manufacturer & pharmacist).
Ralph's children, Ralph Jr. & Stanley, are living with
their ARMOUR grandparents in El Dorado, Kansas. Harry ARMOUR
is now a "Pumper" holding an "oil lease".
Daughter Doris, sister of deceased Ruth, is a stenographer at
an "oil company office".
According to President OBAMA, the oil lease was with Standard
Oil. It's not clear what happened between 1920, when Harry
ARMOUR was a Witchita-based "oiler," and 1930, when
he was a Standard Oil leaseholder in El Dorado.
In 1915, drillers struck oil in El Dorado, & its
population boomed from 20,000 to 40,000. "Within weeks of
striking oil on the Stapleton, representatives of oil
companies such as the Carter Oil Company, an affiliate of
Standard Oil; Empire Oil, an affiliate of Cities Service; and
Gypsy Oil, an affiliate of Gulf Oil; began flooding into El
Dorado, looking for landowners who would lease lands for oil
exploration."
The El Dorado field became the most productive single field in
the US.
The public record doesn't elaborate on how ARMOUR acquired the
land in El Dorado that he leased to Standard oil. However, it
appears the family did well during the Depression years.
ARMOUR's grandson Stanley Armour DUNHAM would grow up to
marrry Madelyn PAYNE. In 1930, her family lived near El
Dorado, in Augusta. Her father, Rolla Charles, was a
bookkeeper with an oil company. Other family members are
listed as "oil drillers" in census data. Madelyn's
grandfather Charles PAYNE, 68, was a Kansas City cattle
dealer.
(Interestingly re the cattle connection, Stanley DUNHAM's 3rd
great grandmother was Catherine Goodnight, second cousin once
removed of Charles Goodnight, cattle dealer & pioneer of
the Goodnight cattle trail from Texas to New Mexico.
Catherine was also a first cousin once removed to President
Truman's great grandmother, making Truman & Obama 4th
cousins, four times removed.)
Though Augusta & El Dorado are less than 15 miles apart
& both families worked in the oil industry, PAYNE
supposedly met DUNHAM in Wichita at a big band concert in
1940. She would have been about 17, he about 22. He was a
furniture salesman. They married the same year, right before
Madelyn's HS graduation - without her parent's knowledge, some
sources say.
Stanley PAYNE entered the army, & Madelyn worked in
Boeing's Wichita plant building the B-29 bomber. PAYNE was
apparently stationed at Ft. Leavenworth for at least part of
the war; Madelyn gave birth to daughter Stanley there in 1942.
Fort Leavenworth is known as the "Intellectual Center of
the Army." During WWII, "an accelerated course was
taught at the Command and General Staff College. In the 27
wartime classes, approximately 18,000 officers, including Air
Corps, Navy, and Marine personnel, received general staff
training. These officers filled critically needed command and
staff positions in the divisions, corps, and armies, or in
similar units of the Air Corps and Service Forces."
Interestingly:
"Stanley’s older brother Ralph Emerson Dunham,
great-uncle to Barack, landed at Normandy's Omaha Easy Red
beach on D-Day plus four. [11][12] Before the Invasion of
Normandy, the brothers once met accidentally while Stanley
went in search of rations at the Hotel Russell in London,
where Ralph happened to be staying."
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Hotel_Russell_on_Russell_Square%2C_London_-_April_2007.jpg/300px-Hotel_Russell_on_Russell_Square%2C_London_-_April_2007.jpg
The Hotel Russell was allegedly a center for British
intelligence during WW2.
When Stanley left the service as a sergeant, the couple lived
a migratory life for about 18 years, moving from Kansas to
Oklahoma (1948-51), Texas (1951-52), Kansas again, California,
then Seattle/Bellevue (1955-60), with Stanley working as a
furniture salesman at each stop.
This periphatic furniture-selling lifestyle doesn't seem to be
one that would provide a comfortable income, yet their
residence when Stanley Ann graduated HS (1960) was on Mercer
Island, even then a toney address. The record says Madelyn
had previously helped support the family with restaurant work;
in Washington she became vice-president of a local bank.
As soon as Stanley Ann graduated from high school, father
Stanley "got a better opportunity" in Hawaii. The
family moved in 1960. Stanley Ann started at the University of
Hawaii. Madelyn started at the Bank of Hawaii the same year,
working her way up to VP in 1970.
Barack OBAMA was born August 1961. Soon afterward, OBAMA Sr.,
son of a participant in Kenya's independence movement, moved
on to Harvard, but Stanley Ann didn't. They were officially
divorced in 1964, & he returned to Kenya to work as an
economist in Kenya's Ministry of Finance.
In 1967-72 Stanley Ann was in Indonesia & married to Lolo
Soetoro, also the son of a father involved in his country's
independence movement who was an army geologist at the time.
Soetoro eventually became a Mobil Oil consultant on government
relations. Stanley would go on to work for the Ford Foundation
& USAID on microcredit & other projects.
The years of Stanley Ann's residence were in the immediate
wake of the unrest that brought Suharto to power in Indonesia,
in which both the Ford Foundation & the CIA are alleged to
have played a role.
In his book, Obama says Lolo Soetoro was conscripted to
"fight communist rebels" in the coup period.
That would likely be this:
"An attempted coup on 30 September 1965 was countered by
Suharto-led troops.[3] Suharto took control of the army, and
the coup attempt was blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party.
An army led anti-communist purge, killed over half a million
people, and Suharto wrested power from Indonesia's founding
president, Sukarno. He was appointed acting president in 1967
and President the following year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto
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