• Kentuckians

    From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to All on Thu Jul 6 09:11:16 2023
    This week's Featured Connections are famous Kentuckians. Thanks to wikitree.com, I
    learned that I am:

    17 degrees from Abraham Lincoln

    17 degrees from Muhammad Ali

    16 degrees from Cassius Clay, the father of Muhammad Ali

    14 degrees from Josephine Henry, an American Progressive Era women's rights leader,
    suffragist, social reformer, and writer

    30 degrees from Alberta Jones, an attorney and civil rights icon

    16 degrees from Alice Lloyd, cofounder of Caney Junior College

    19 degrees from Harland Sanders, best known for creating a fast-food chicken recipe
    upon which the restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (now known as KFC) was founded.

    18 degrees from Margaret Sissons, who served in the First World War in France at a
    British Army Hospital, and was the most decorated Kentucky woman veteran serving in
    World War I.

    19 degrees from Cora Stewart, the first woman elected president of the Kentucky
    Education Association

    19 degrees from Jesse Stuart, a school teacher and administrator, author, and a poet
    laureate of Kentucky

    16 degrees from William Sutton, a famous physician. Dr. Sutton is one of several
    memorable people whose names are inscribed on the plaque at the entrance of the
    Georgetown Cemetery

    It is always interesting to visit the past to see how we are related to each other. I have
    some ancestors that were black, bank robbers, politicians physicians, detectives, actors,
    comedians. I guess that I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are.

    If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me
    some basic information by going to: https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm and click on the 'Request Form'
    link.

    I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history.

    Mike Dippel
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