NOTABLE FAMILY MEMBERS

 NOTABLE FAMILY  MEMBERS

Earle B Mayfield Democratic State Senator

General John Stanwick 1690-1766

Brigadier General Thomas Stanwick

Senator S G Mayfield

Gordie Howe 1928-2016 Famous Hockey Player 11th cousin 1x removed (Thomas)

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Author of WITHOUT PRINCIPLE & THE MAINE WOODS 9th cousin 3x removed   (Thomas)

Jane Austen 1775-1817 Author 6th cousin 8x removed (Thomas)

Mark Twain 1835-1910 Author Husband of 6th cousin 4x removed (Thomas)

Annie Oakley 1860-1926 Sharpshooter & Entertainer 7th cousin 6x removed (Thomas)

Emily Dickerson 1830-1886 Author 8th cousin 4x removed (Thomas)

Agatha Christie 1890-1976 Author 8th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 Author 8th cousin 3x removed (Thomas)

Cecil B DeMille 1881-1959 Filmmaker 11th cousin (Thomas)

Walt Disney 1901-1966 Animator & Producer (Mickey Mouse) 9th cousin (Thomas)

Buffalo Bill 1846-1917 Wild West Shows 9th cousin 3x removed (Thomas)

John Wayne 1907-1979 “The Duke” Actor 9th cousin (Thomas)

Shirley Temple 1928-2014 Actress 9th cousin (Thomas)

Lucille Ball 19111-1989 Actress 9th cousin (Thomas)

Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962 Actress & Model 9th cousin (Thomas)

Buster Keaton 1895-1966 Actor Husband of 9th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Bing Crosby 1903-1977 Actor 10th cousin 1xremoved (Thomas)

T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 Author 10th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 Author Husband of 9th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 Author 10th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Audrey Hepburn 1929-1993 Actress 10th cousin (Thomas)

Sir Laurence Hammerton 1380-1449. 

Knights Templars Seneschal

Robert de Holland 1283-1328

Knights Templars

George Mayfield Appointed Commissioner to The Creek Indians Nation by George Washington in 1795

Leroy M Mayfield Baptist Minister and was the First Trustee of Indiana University

 

George Andrew Mayfield Doctor, Professor of Medicine at School of Nashville

Sutherland Shannon Mayfield Doctor, President of Tennessee Medical Society 

9-Reese Tate Bowen US Congressman in Virginia, Brigadier General, State Senator of Virginia 

Neil Armstrong 1930-2012 First Man on the Moon 11th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Gordie Howe 1928-2016 Famous Hockey Player 11th cousin 1x removed (Thomas)

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 Author of WITHOUT PRINCIPLE & THE MAINE WOODS 9th cousin 3x removed   (Thomas)

Jane Austen 1775-1817 Author 6th cousin 8x removed (Thomas)

Mark Twain 1835-1910 Author Husband of 6th cousin 4x removed (Thomas)

Annie Oakley 1860-1926 Sharpshooter & Entertainer 7th cousin 6x removed (Thomas)

Emily Dickerson 1830-1886 Author 8th cousin 4x removed (Thomas)

Patrick Henry 1st Governor of Virginia 

Brigadier General William Washington Russell II

Dorothea Spotswood Dandridge Married 1st Governor of Virginia. Was First Lady of Virginia. Martha Washington 1st cousin, George Washington Wife

Philip Aylett Colonel American Revolution, General 

Spencer Roane Chief Justice of the United States sworn in by President Jefferson.

 Orville Wright 1871-1948 Invented First Airplane 11th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Wilbur Wright 1867-1912 Invented First Airplane 11th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Samuel Morse 1791-1872 Invented Single Wire Telegraph Husband of 8th cousin (Thomas)

Thomas Edison 1847-1931 Prolific Inventor 10th cousin 3x removed (Thomas)

Eli Whitney 1765-1825 Invented Cotton Gin Husband of 6th cousin (Thomas

Philo T Farnsworth 1906-1971 Pioneer of the Television Husband of 9th cousin (Thomas)

Adam Smith 1723-1790 Pioneering Economist 8th cousin 6x removed (Thomas)

Jonathon Browning 1805-1879 Inventor of Browning Guns and Other Weapons Husband of 5th cousin (Thomas)

John Browning 1855-1926 Inventor of Multiple Firearms 6th cousin (Thomas)

Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Creator of the Theory of Evolution 7th cousin 5x removed (Thomas)

Edward Jenner 1749-1823 Creator of the Smallpox Vaccine 7th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Diana 1961-1997 Princess of Wales 9th Cousin (Thomas)

John Robinson 1574-1625 Was Bishop for all Mayflower Passengers 12th Great Uncle (Mayfield)

Marie Antionette 1755-1793 Queen of France  Wife of 5th cousin 5x removed (Thomas)

Victoria 1819-1901 Queen of United Kingdom 7th cousin 3x removed (Thomas)

Simon Bolivar 1783-1830 Military & Political Leader 9th cousin 4x removed (Thomas)

William C Campbell Brigadier General

 Isaac Allerton 1586-1658 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 11th GGF (Thomas)

William Brewster 1566-1644 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 12 GGF (Thomas)

Mary Brewster 1568-1627 Came over on the  ship “Mayflower” 12 GGF (Thomas)

Bartholomew Alerton 1612-1658 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 10th Great Uncle (Thomas)

Remember Alerton 1614-1652 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 10th Great Aunt (Thomas)

Mary Allerton 1616-1699 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 10th Great Aunt (Thomas)

Love Brewster 1612-1650 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 11th Great Uncle (Thomas)

Wrestling Brewster 1614-1627 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 11th Great Aunt (Thomas)

Richard Warren -1628 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 1st cousin 12x removed (Thomas)

Thomas Williams 1582-1621 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 1st cousin 13x remove (Thomas)

John Cooke 1606-1695 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” Husband of 2nd cousin 11x removed (Thomas)

John Tilley 1571-1621 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 3rd cousin 11x removed (Thomas)

Joan Hurst 1571-1621 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 3rd cousin 11x removed (Thomas)

Henry Samson 1604-1685 Came over on the ship “Mayfield” 3rd cousin 10x removed (Thomas)

Edward Tilley 1588-1621 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 3rd cousin 11x removed (Thomas)

Elizabeth Tilley 1607-1687 Came over on the ship “Mayflower” 4th cousin 10x removed (Thomas)

Helen Keller 1880-1968 First Blind College Graduate 10th cousin 1x removed (Henderson)

Amelia Earhart 1897-1937 Aviation Pioneer 9th cousin (Thomas)

Charles Lindbergh 1902-1974 Aviation Pioneer 9th cousin 1x removed (Thomas)

MARTIN LUTHER KING 1929-1968 12th Cousin (Yes this right) Martin Luther King is in our family by way of, you go back to John Robert Thomas 1799-1874 and Dempsey Pool 1803-1887. Then that goes back to the Matthews Family which goes back to Tobias Matthew 1546-1628 & Frances Barlow 1550-1629. After you kick off that side of their family and their children, it goes back to the year 1875 to one of their children which was James Jim Long 1840-1880 & Mary Jane Linsey 1853-1881. They had a son they named James Albert King 1864-1933 which married Delia Linsey Long 1875-1924. They had a son Reverend Martin King 1899-1984 which married Alberta Williams 1904-1974. Their son was the famous Civil Rights Leader MARTIN LUTHER KING 1929-1968. I have the PEDIGREE showing from MYSELF to KING. I myself always had the highest regards for King.  I liked listening to his speeches. (Thomas)

Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 Founder of Modern Nursing 11th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Robert Peary 1856-1920 First Person to Reach the North Pole 10th cousin 4x removed (Henderson)

John Armstrong Sr Major General 

John Armstrong Jr Brigadier General, United States Senator, 7th United States Secretary of War, Major in Continental Army

James Armstrong Doctor, US Congressman, Associate Judge, Also Served in 3rd Congress as Pro Administration Candidate

Byrd W Gray Chief Justice 13th District Texas

The Family is Related to 31 Past Presidents of the United States

William Henry Harrison 1773-1841 2nd cousin 8x removed (Mayfield)

Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 3rd cousin 5x removed (Thomas)

James Madison 1750-1836 3rd cousin 5x removed (Thomas)

Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 4th cousin 7x removed (Thomas)

Benjamin Harrison 1833-1901 4th cousin 6x removed (Mayfield)

John Tyler 1790-1862 5th cousin 5x removed (Thomas)

John Adams 1735-1826 6th cousin 6x removed (Richards)

George Washington 1732-1799 Husband of 3rd cousin 9x removed (Thomas)

John Quincy Adams 1767-1848 7th cousin 5x removed (Richards)

Ulysses S Grant 1822-1885 7th cousin 3x removed (Thomas)

Franklin D Roosevelt 1882-1945 9th cousin 1x removed (Thomas)

Lyndon B Johnson 1908-1973 Husband of 7th cousin 1x removed (Thomas)

William Howard Taft 1857-1930 7th cousin 6x removed (Thomas)

James Garfield 1831-1881 7th cousin 4x removed (Thomas)

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 7th cousin 6x removed (Thomas)

Franklin Pierce 1804-1869 8th cousin 5x removed (Richards)

Andrew Jackson 1767-1845 8th cousin 6x removed (Thomas)

James Monroe 1758-1831 8th cousin 6x removed (Thomas)

Andrew Johnson 1808-1875 8th cousin 6x removed (Richards)

James Buchanan 1791-1868 8th cousin 5x removed (Richards) 

William McKinley 1843-1901 8th cousin 4x removed (Thomas)

Rutherford B Hayes 1822-1893 Husband of 4th cousin 5x removed (Thomas)

Millard Fillmore 1800-1874 Husband of 8th cousin 4x removed (Richards)

Hert Hoover 1874-1964 8th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Harry Truman 1884-1972 9th cousin (Thomas)

Warren G Harding 1865-1923 Husband of 8th cousin 3x removed (Thomas)

Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919 Husband of 9th cousin 1x removed (Richards)

James K Polk 1795-1849 Husband of 8th cousin 5x removed (Thomas)

Calvin Coolidge 1815-1878 Husband of 10th cousin (Thomas)

Dwight D Eisenhower 1890-1969 Husband of 10th cousin 2x removed (Thomas)

Richard Nixon 1913-1994 11th cousin (Thomas)

James Henderson Williams Brigadier General 

Wyatt Earp

Morgan Earp

 Virgil Earp

James Henderson Williams Brigadier General 

Phillip W Lightfoot II Major General 

John Jaural Stewart General 

Henry Purcell 1659-1695 17th Century Composer, Baroque Music, Gentleman of Chapel Royal, Sang at King Charles II of England, Gentleman of His Majesty’s Chapel, appointed Organist of Westminster Abbey, Organist of Chapel Royal

Archibald Bruce McEachin Jr Lawyer, 1st Lieutenant Civil War, Author of “The History of Tuscaloosa 1816-1880”, Land Commissioner for University of Alabama

Lelius McCrary Otts Sr President of First National Bank of Greensboro, Town Councilman, Postmaster of Greensboro, Editor & Publisher of the Greensboro Watchman

McCrary Family owned the “McCrary-Otts House” named Magnolia Hall the finest Antebellum Mansion in Alabama located at 805 Otts St in Greensboro, Alabama 

William Andrew Christenberry Painter, Sculptor, Teacher, Author, Famous Photograph Author 

Robert Carter Came to American aboard the “Mayflower” to Plymouth in 1620.

R F Pool Owned the largest manufacturer of Overall, blue jeans plant in the United States in Texas called Sherman Overall Factory

Sir William Wallace 1273-1307 “Braveheart”

James FitzJames 1st Duke of Bernice, 1st Duke of Fitz-James, 1st Duke of Lidia & Jerica.

ROYAL ANCESTOR Cadwgan ap Elystan Glodrydd of Bullet. Lord of Radnor, a Knight for King Arthur Court

Samuel Mathews II Lieutenant Colonel, Commonwealth Governor of Virginia in the English Colony in 1656.

Thomas Mathews Brigadier General 

Katharine Hepburn 1907-2003 Actress Wife of 8th cousin (Thomas)

Elvis Presley 1935-1977 Musician & Actor 10th cousin (Thomas)

Jackson Pollock 1912-1956 Painter 11th cousin 2x removed (Thomas

Tobias Matthew English Nobleman, Bishop, President of Oxford University, Dean Of Durham, Archbishop of York

Robert Hooke 17th century Inventor, Scientist. He invented or is known for his HOOKE LAW. The invention of compound microscope and cell theory, invented Air Pump, Pendulums for clocks, Gregorian Compound Telescope, Wheel Barometer, Hydrometer, Anemometer, Served as The Royal Society’s Curator of Experiments, worked with Isaac Newton

ROYAL ANCESTOR Sir William Bardolf 4th Lord of Bardolf, 4th Baron of Wormegay, 3rd Baron Damory

ROYAL ANCESTOR Sir William Marshall Master Marshall of King’s Household, 1st Earl of Pembroke, William the Elder, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, Sheriff of Sussex, Warren of the Forest Dean, Constable of St Briavels, Constable of Lillebonne and Marshall of England

ROYAL ANCESTOR William de Ferrers 4th Earl of Derby

James Stewart III 1st Lord of Donne James Stewart, James Stewart Lord Doun, James Stewart Baron Doune, James Stewart of Daldowie and AllantonTitle-Viscount of Doun, Ancestors of Earls of Moray, Clansman of the Highlands, Doune, Scotland, Joint Ambassador to France, 2nd Lord of Ochiltee, Succeeded as Sheriff of Bute, Stuart’s of the House of Castles Tua

James Stuart King of England, Throne of England, Duke of York, Order of Garter, Lord of High Admiral, was King of England and Ireland as James II. King of Scotland as James VII.

Charles I King of England, King of Scotland, King of Ireland, British Royal Family Tree, The Royal House of Stuart, family of Present Day Queen.

Charles James Duke of Cornwell and Rothesay, Prince of Wales

Johanna Von Habsburg-Oesterreich of Austria. Archduchess Johanna of Austria, Grand Duchess

Frederick II King of Denmark

Mary I Queen of Scotland, Royal House of Stewart

Robert III Stewart King of Scotland, Duke of Albany, Lord of All Lorn, 1st Duke of Scotland, Earl of Caithness, Earl of Carrick, Prince of Scotland, Prime Minister to Scott’s Peerage Stewart, Governor of Scotland 

Robert II King of Scotland, 7th High Steward of Scotland, Earl of Strathearn, Royal House of Stewart

Marjorie Bruce Princess of Scotland, Duchess Albany, Countess of Menteith, Margaret of Moravia, Countess of Angus

ROYAL ANCESTOR “Waltheof” Earl of Northumbria, Anglo-Saxon Earl of Huntingdon & Northampton, Magna Carta Barons

ROYAL ANCESTOR Isabel d’ Angouleme Queen of Angouleme

Gisela of Burgundy Pope Calixtus Niece, Countess of Savoy, Countess of Burgundy

Louis Ie Ludovicus Pius Lodewijk de Vrome de Baviere, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Frank’s, King of Italy, Emperor of the West

John Jaural Stewart

Revolutionary War General for Georgia Militia

Sir Winston Churchill 1620-1688 9th GGF “Cavalier Colonel” English Soldier, Historian, Nobleman and Politician

Desmond Doss 1919-2006 WWII, Hacksaw Ridge, Medal Of Honor