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In reply to the discussion: Tell us some famous event an ancestor of yours was involved in? My grandfather found [View all]Canis Mala
(91 posts)I have a great grandfather who was surgeon in France during WWI. He only lived about 8 years after he returned. I guess it was grueling. Before he died, he and my grandfather held off the Klan with shotguns when they wanted to attack the local Catholic academy, even though my family isn't Catholic.
A great great grandfather was in the Civil War and was a prisoner at Andersonville. I think he was captured in Tennessee. There were others in the Civil War and the Spanish American war. I guess my ancestors were good cannon fodder. My uncle was blown up in Guam in WWII, but survived. My dad was wounded in Korea.
We have a photo of my grandparents and grandmother visiting Riley Dunham sometime around 1920. Riley Dunham was a big deal in Hoosier politics. He was also the great, great, great uncle of Barrack Obama. If we're related to the Dunham's - yet to be verified - then I'm related to the president and we share an ancestor who fought with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hasting (1066).