Jane, While I cannot answer your specific question, your posting gives me an opportunity to mention that Omar Bradley "may" be (ironically, considering the discussions of late) a Boone descendant! In researching my gggg grandfather Timothy Logan who was born c.1759 in present-day Surry Co., NC and died in 1848 in Garrard Co., KY, I have found numerous family "legends" or "myths" which state his first wife was named Sarah Boone and was possibly a niece of Daniel Boone. How does this relate to Omar Bradley? Well, Timothy Logan's daughter Elizabeth married my ggg grandfather James Alexander in 1804 in Garrard Co., KY, and the Alexanders were parents of a daughter named Sarah "Sallie" Alexander who was born in 1805 in Garrard Co., KY and died c. 1865 in Randolph County and was married to Joel Hubbard. From everything I've read, the Hubbards are maternal great-grandparents of General Omar Bradley. Unfortunately, I cannot find any documentary proof of this supposed Boone connection. The best I have come up with (which isn't good enough at this point) is an obituary for Elizabeth Serilda (Alexander) Lynch who was a younger sister of Sallie (Alexander) Hubbard, which also mentions the Boone connection. Additionally, a biography for Elizabeth Lynch's husband, Neptune Lynch (whom she married on November 13, 1845 in Randolph Co., MO) mentions the relationship to Daniel Boone as well (please keep in mind that the biography has mixed up some first names). I am attaching this obituary and biography for the List (see below). Both were generously shared with me by Nancy Eastis, a descendant of Elizabeth Serilda (Alexander) Lynch and Neptune Lynch. Thanks! David Brown Plainsman Obituary Died-At her home near Plains, Tuesday morning, June 28, 1904, Mrs. Neptune Lynch, Sr., age 82 years. Mrs. Lynch was born in Garrett county Kentucky, March 5, 1822. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Serilda Alexander. Her father, James Alexander, moved to Howard county, Missouri, when she was four years of age, where she grew to womanhood. At the age of 22 she was married to Neptune Lynch, Sr., and remained in the same county until 1862, at which time with her husband and family crossed the plains to Boise City, Idaho, where they remained for four years and came to Montana, going to Helena. In the spring of 1870 the settled at Plains, and has resided here ever since. Mrs. Lynch was one of the pioneers in the full sense of the word, having been born in Kentucky when it was a wilderness, moved to Missouri with the first white settlers of that state and thence coming to the Rocky mountain regions and experiencing the hardships incident upon the building up of a new country. She was a lineal descendant of Daniel Boone and inherited the brave heart and noble character of her antece! dents. In her pioneer experience she saw many blood-curdling event. At one time eleven men were killed one-half mile from their train, and the train was surrounded but not attacked for some cause or other. The Indians were not the only danger the pioneers had to face, for at that time Idaho and Montana were overrun with white desperadoes who were attracted to this country by the discovery of gold. She witnessed the events which purged the country of that class of people. She was one of those cool, self reliant, courageous women, and she lived to see Montana embraced by civilization, law and order. She was always contented, never worried at misfortune and gracefully accepted conditions as they came, was always optimistic, looking at the future from the bright side. She was devoted mother and a loving wife. She was the mother of five children, three of which are living and were present to see her laid away. During her life honesty, kindness and charity were her religion, but before! the end came she embraced the Catholic faith. The funeral service was held from the house conducted by Rev. Father Mackin, and the remains were laid by the side of her husband in the burial plot just above her home. History of Montana, 1921 Neptune Lynch, whose record as a pioneer is properly told in this work, was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1824, and acquired all his education before leaving his native land. He came to this country at the age of fourteen and leaving Castle Garden rode horseback across half the continent, at a time when there were no railroads, to Roanoke, Howard County, Missouri. There he made his home with his Uncle Lynch to the age of twenty. He then married Miss Elizabeth S. Alexander. They became the parents of five children: Charles A. , who is a resident of Kalispell, Montana, and has three sons; James D., who died in Calgary, Canada, thirty years ago; Neptune, Jr., who died at Plains twenty years ago, leaving two daughters and one son; Mrs. Elizabeth Lee Grinnell, who died in Spokane eleven years ago; and Mrs. Mary Lynch Boyer, a resident of Plains, and proprietor of the Hotel Northern of that city. In 1849, leaving his wife and two children with his uncle in Missouri, Neptune Lynch went by way of Panama to California, and remained in the far West six years. Returning to Missouri, after settling his uncle's estate he gathered his family around him, and in 1860 started again for the setting sun. His first location was at Denver; in 1862 he removed to Boise, Idaho, and in 1866 came to Montana, first locating at Helena, and for two years farming near the present site of Townsend. In the spring of 1870, following the Cedar Creek gold excitement, he joined that stampede and in November came to "Horse Plains," now Plains. Here he followed farming and stock raising the rest of his life. The family in the early days had frequent troubles with Indians, and endured many other hardships. One time the household was confined to an unvarying diet of potatoes for three weeks, and were thankful for that. There were no schools nor churches, but despite the lack of such advantages the ! Lynch home was a very happy one. Neptune lynch was a democrat in politics and a Catholic in religion. For several years while living in Missouri he studied medicine with Doctor Blake in that state. He obtained a knowledge that was useful to him and his family and to the entire community in Montana. He was able to handle all ordinary cases of illness in his own family, and was the doctor and nurse for all the people who lived in Plains during the seventies and eighties. In 1893, Mr. Lynch was in a railway accident, losing his left leg just below the knee, and suffered a great deal and was never quite the same strong man afterward. He was a rugged character, strong, kindly, sympathetic and greatly beloved by all who knew him. His generosity caused him to divide all that he had. His death occurred May 25, 1898, as a result of pneumonia, and his widow, who survived him six years, died of the same disease. Her people were Kentuckians, and she was born in that state, going with her family at the age of four years to Missouri. She was a great-grandniece to Daniel Boone. Her grandfather's name was Sidney Logan (note by David Brown -- should be Timothy Logan) and her father's name John Alexander (note by David Brown -- her father was James Alexander, but she did have a brother named John Alexander). Neptune Lynch served for a number of years as postmaster at Plains, finally resigning that office in 1883. Jane Debellis <[email protected]> wrote: Here goes a new topic for the evening. I have been told on numerous occasions by my mother (and possibly her brother) that General Bradley was a cousin. My younger sister asked this again of me and I related to her that it is possible but I have not been able to find any link to the General. I have long surmised some connection through the Foreman (or Forman line) as there are several of my great-grandmothers sisters I have not accounted for. The other lines for maternal great-grandparents are all well accounted for and at least through Bradley's grandparents no matches are apparent. It could be more logical that rather the link is through the Ragsdales or Stipps who were in the Randolph County area long before my great-grandmother and her sisters came to Randolph County. When Bradley came back to Moberly in 1966 for the centennial, my grandfather had his picture taken with him and my brothers and that could be the source of this myth, but thinking that I have heard my uncle confirm this, I tend to think there may be a grain of truth somewhere. I know my grandmother was a classmate of Bradley's and they attended church and Sunday School together at Central Christian Church in Moberly and perhaps that somehow also got tangled into the myth. If there are any Bradley researchers out there with additional information I'd love to hear it. I'm not strongly attached to this relationship so debunking it wouldn't hurt my feelings at all. Jane DeBellis Milton, FL ==== MORANDOL Mailing List ==== Questions for the List Administrator? Send them to Leslie at [email protected]