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Can Virginia add Obama to its leadership legacy?
Is Obama just a 'good old Westmoreland boy'? One researcher finds links to Robert E. Lee, James Madison
Date published: 6/21/2008
BY FRANK DELANO In addition to his father's village in Africa, Barack Obama may be able to add Montpelier and Stratford Hall to his list of ancestral homes. According to a venerable genealogical society, the Illinois senator and presumptive Democratic nominee for president is a distant cousin of both President James Madison, who was born in King George County in 1751, and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, who was born in 1807 at Stratford in Westmoreland County. "I always thought of Obama as this strange, exotic person. But he could walk in here tomorrow just like anybody else and start looking for his ancestors in Westmoreland County," said Darlene Tallent, a researcher and historian at the county museum in Montross. A scholar of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Bos-ton traced lots of Obama's maternal ancestors. The society announced earlier this year that Gary Boyd Roberts found that Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham of Kansas, had many ties to old families in Virginia and other Colonies. One of those lines goes back to a 17th-century Englishman named Richard Eltonhead, the ancestor shared by Obama, Madison and Lee. Two of Eltonhead's daughters married Northern Neck tobacco planters named Conway and Corbin, Roberts reported. James Madison's mother was a Conway. He was born at his grandparents' place at Port Conway on the Rappahannock River across from Port Royal. Consequently, Obama and James Madison are third cousins nine times removed, Roberts wrote. The Corbin connection makes Obama and Lee fifth cousins eight times removed, Roberts discovered. It also ties him to Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee, two Stratford bro-thers who signed the Declaration of Independence. "We can't validate it one way or the other," an official of the Society of Lees of Virginia said of Roberts' findings. The official did not wish to be named.
Date published: 6/21/2008
domsmom
(posted by
imready
, June 24, 2008 6:36 pm)
Obama is misleading people about the fact that half of his family, beginning with his father are muslims. Does it make a difference to you that Obama is unwilling to tell the truth? It does matter that Obama is unwilling to tell the truth. Should it matter to you if Obama lies? Probably not. You are obviously a liberal. Liberals lie a lot.
And Jefferson was an Agnostic Deist
(posted by
adamt
, June 23, 2008 5:19 pm)
imready: So what? If you have a criticism say it. Obama himself is Christian. But beyond that, there's a lot of awful people that claimed to be Christian. Does that mean they're automatically better than a Muslim as you seem to be inferring?
imready..
(posted by
domsmom
, June 23, 2008 12:28 pm)
What difference does it make whether his relatives are Muslim or not?
Madison and Lee were Christian not Muslim
(posted by
imready
, June 22, 2008 5:49 pm)
Most of Obama's relatives are muslims.
A Contrived Obama article
(posted by
uga1988
, June 22, 2008 2:46 pm)
The FLS has done it again. Pushing the media darling into our lives with a front page article. Contrived as it is Mr. Delano (and your editors), it is a thinly veiled attempt to gain acceptance with voters. Do you know who your 5th cousin, 8th removed is? Neither do I - and it doesn’t matter since they have no bearing on who I am nor how successful I am. The more credible genealogist that Delano seeks comment from fail to back his thesis. Proof again that the FLS is pushing a liberal agenda.
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