Monday, March 16, 2015

My Relationships to U.S. Presidents - Post 4: Presidents 22-27

I can't seem to stay away from Geni.com and their search capability to find relationships with living persons.  I spent more time today working backwards in time looking for my connections to the U.S. Presidents.  Previously, I did six of them in My Relationships to United States Presidents - Post 1: 39 to 44 (posted 2 October 2014), five more in My Relationships to U.S. Presidents - Post 2: Presidents 34-38 (posted 13 November 2014), and six more in My Relationships to U.S. Presidents - Post 3: Presidents 28-33 (posted 16 January 2015).

Here are the next six going back in time:

1)  William Howard Taft (27th President of the United States) is my 7th cousin three times removed:



The common ancestors are Robert Seaver (1608-1683) and Elizabeth Ballard (16`13?-1657).  I think that this relationship is probably correct.

2)  Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the United States) is my 11th cousin three times removed.


The common ancestors are William Glover (1483-1537) and Katherine Cranfield (1487-1522).  I have not seen authoritative works that go back that far on my line through Richard Kirby the immigrant ancestor to New England.  It may be true, and may not be.

3)  William McKinley (25th President of the United States) is my 7th cousin 4 times removed.



The common ancestors are William Bassett (1600-1667) and Elizabeth ??? (1603-1650).  I think that this relationship is probably correct.

4)  Grover Cleveland (24th and 22nd President of the United States is my 6th cousin 4 times removed.


The common ancestors are Moses Cleveland (1624-1702) and Ann Winn (1626-1682).  The relationship on Geni.com goes through Deliverance (Cleveland) Oatley (1700-1734), daughter of Deliverance Cleveland.  I have not been able to find authoritative information about the Deliverance who married Jonathan Oatley in 1726; she may not be a Cleveland.  However, I am descended from Joanna (Cleveland) Keyes (1670-1758), a daughter of Moses Cleveland and Ann Winn, so the relationship is probably correct.

5)  Benjamin Harrison (23rd President of the United States) is my 9th cousin 2 times removed.


The common ancestor is Elizabeth (Woolmer) Tuthill (1567-1587) who had 4 children by two different Tuthill males.   Really?  I doubt that this profile or relationships are accurate.  I wrote a discussion item for this one on Elizabeth (Woolmer) Tuthill's profile.  

6)  I did not check the records for each relationship shown in the charts above.  I am confident that my lines back to the immigrant ancestors from England are correct, but I have no idea how accurate the lines are from the immigrants back to some of the common ancestors to the Presidents.  Some are well researched, and have entries in the book by Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (1989).  

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