Hi all, Robert Pershing Wadlow was the Gentleman Giant. He is my mothers third cousin. I have all the info on him and many more of the Wadlows. What relation is your mother. Tell me more. I'm sure I can connect us. Win Shores -----Original Message----- From: Vyronica@aol.com <Vyronica@aol.com> To: ILMADISO-L@rootsweb.com <ILMADISO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 4:20 AM Subject: Big in Madison County >In a message dated 98-09-17 03:03:21 EDT, you write: > ><< Do you know anything about "The Alton Giant"?I understand he was related > to my > MO. family and was at one time in Guinness Records.The time period would > be > about 1930. > Thanks, > RoEllen Adalene (Puckett) Henry >> > > >I do, my mother had talked about going to see his shoes on display. I'm going >out of town and will ask her when I gett back. I've seen newsreel footage of >him, I believe, if I'm not just thinking of the picture in an old 70's Guiness >book. > > >==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== > Search this list's archived messages! >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >