Way back when, a relative in England codified the local farmer's recipes into a master formula for Cheddar cheese. All I ever got out of that was higher cholesterol.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
Found these pictures of Barb and Steve's grandparents on the Internet. I had always assumed that they were of Canadian ancestry too! Love....Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
Billy Tweedle, Third Munchkin from the left, the lollipop guild. hahahahahaha
-------------------- Work like you don't need the money, Love like you've never been hurt, And Dance like no one's watching. :) Mike Lavallee Mike Lavallee's Pinstriping & Airbrush Art Everett, WA Posts: 449 | From: Everett, WA | Registered: Dec 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
Todd, I haven't read the book, sounds like a pretty good book. My dad has researched quite a bit and seems to hold Louis Lamour's research as pretty accurate, he has several books that include the actual court transcripts and sworn eyewitness testamonies. Louis Lamour was a western novelist, but also considered an accurate historian and authority on various issues of the Old West including the Earps. The way I understand it, the Earps had a horsetrack and Virgil Earp's horse was always the favored winner. Billy Clanton agreed to race his horse against Virgil's for "pink slips"(so to speak) and Billy's horse won. Virgil then refused to hand over the horse- so Billy went back and rounded up Old Man Ike and some others to go into Tombstone and get Virgil's horse. It probably would have ended up in a standoff, but some of the eyewitnesses said that in the standoff, Doc Holiday winked at Billy, who had a very short temper anyway, then all hell broke loose.
It's all pretty interesting, but some of the movies and stories have distorted some the accurate history and the fact that the Earps were not known as upstanding citizens, they just happened to have the badges. When the dimestore western novels started appearing, romanticizing the wild west and creating heros and villans, Wyatt jumped in and told his own story of his life and heroics.
(BTW, I loved Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday)
-------------------- Michael Clanton Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio 1933 Blackberry Conway AR 72034 501-505-6794 clantongraphics@yahoo.com Posts: 1736 | From: Conway Arkansas | Registered: Oct 2001
| IP: Logged |
I just watched the movie "Tombstone" in the airport last week on my laptop between flights....it's one of my fav's.....and in the movie (as you no doubt know) Val give's that antagonizing wink that starts the whole fight...
So, how far down the line are you with the Clanton namesake? How do you tie in?
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
I don't think there is any fame in our family. But my great, great, great grandaddy's log house (circa 1870) is on display at the Junior Museum in Panama City. It was catalogued, dismantled and transported there from Holmes County by Archaeologists several years ago. He, his father and his two brothers were confederate soldiers. The two brothers were killed during the war, one at the battle of Chickamauga and the other died in a prison camp. His daddy, my great, great, great, great....granndaddy became a Methodist minister after the war.
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7403 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
Todd, Let's see- there were 5 brothers- 2 stayed in Alabama area, 1 came to Arkansas (my line) the other 2 went out west(one of those forks had Ike Clanton) in early 1800's. The Arkansas line had my great-grandfather, who fought in the Civil War at the battle of Shiloh under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson. my great-grandfather was 14 yrs old and stuffed cotton in his boots to appear older. My Grandfather (who was named Clyde Albert Sidney Johnson Clanton) was born in 1894- had 10 kids, my dad was number 9- my Grandad was 50 yrs old when my dad born. My Grandad was the coolest! He had lived thru just about everything that we take for granted today. Cars, Planes, Electricity, Rockets, 4 major wars, telephones, tv's... have the best stories!
So a long story short, about 5 or 6 generations away. I think they traced all of the Clantons back to one guy who came from England in the late 1600's.
-------------------- Michael Clanton Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio 1933 Blackberry Conway AR 72034 501-505-6794 clantongraphics@yahoo.com Posts: 1736 | From: Conway Arkansas | Registered: Oct 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
My mother was a McCoy and my great grandfather on her side was born in Kentucky according to the "FamilySearch Internet Genealogy". Kissy, I always wondered if I am related to that clan that took part in that famous fued. His name was Lafayette and he had 13 kids who he and my great grandma lived with one at time until they passed on. My grandmother kicked him out of the house when they came to live with her and Grandpa, because he chewed tobacco and spit on the floor. She was a prudish Norwegian lady who had some refinement, and old Lafayette was a little rough around the edges -- so to speak. It was a clash waitin' to happen.
Anyway, he played the fiddle and held it down low around his waist when he played. Supposedly he played it all night long the night he died. I hope I expire doing something I really enjoy when my time comes.
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
Don't know that I have anyone famous, but I have traced my mother's father's family back to 1673. My grandmother on my mother's side live with my parents for 28 years. I probably spent more time with her than my mom. She came over on a ship when she was 14, bringing her younger brother with her to avoid the war. Can you imagine sending your 14 year old and younger child on a one month trip to another country to live with cousins!! I am 100% German. The funny thing is that when my mother's parents and father's parents got talking, they had all come from the same area of Germany, even thought my father's side had been in the USA a couple generations before my mom's side. It is a area called Ostfriesland, up on the coast of Germany, very Dutch-like. Grandma had stories about the wooden shoes and how the community got out on Saturday mornings and swept the streets. I wished I had asked MORE questions. My parents both spoke German and would break into that with their friends and some family. Wish I would have learned more German, too.
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
Hey Ian, I'm a direct decendant of William the Bruce. Both my grandfather and father boasted about it regularly. My Brother's name is William Bruce Baird. I don't know a lot about it, but after seeing "Braveheart", I don't know if it's something to brag about. I guess I'll mark the bad stuff up to Mel's artistic interpretation.
-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
Don't have any fame in my family, or at least not that I know of.
My mom's side of the family descended from Italian and German immigrants, dad's side came from France and I think Denmark and settled in New Orleans but his side of the family quickly seperated and assimilated. I'm only the 3rd generation of my family to be born in the US.
My grandfather on mom's side was one of the first to make landfall on Iwa Jima, and Granny has a bloody Japanese flag he brought home from that battle. I don't think that makes him famous though.
-------------------- "If I share all my wisdom I won't have any left for myself."
Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
| IP: Logged |
![[Rolling On The Floor]](graemlins/rolf.gif)
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic