Tim, Thanks for all the information. If you would like to work up a small article, I would love to post it on the Randolph Co. web page. Nola ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Walls" <twwalls@prodigy.net> To: "Fay Clark" <gmcflc@bellsouth.net> Cc: "Randolph County NC List" <ncrandol@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:01 AM Subject: [NCRANDOL] Obama's CLARK connection > Obama also descends from the ALLREDs of Randolph County, NC, most notably Solomon Allred. > > http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html > >>>"In Dreams from my father, Mr. Obama states, on p. 13: " ... one of my great-great-grandfathers, >>>Christopher Columbus Clark, had been a decorated Union soldier, his wife's mother was rumored to >>>have been a second cousin of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy". This statement is >>>incorrect, as Christopher Columbus Clark [number 54, above] was Mr. Obama's >>>great-great-great-grandfather, not his great-great-grandfather. > > The rumored connection of Clark's wife's mother, Mrs. Louisiana Duvall Overall [number 111, > above], to Jefferson Davis appears to be incorrect. Barbara Clark Rees, a descendant of Alpheus > Clark, a brother of Christopher Columbus Clark, writes to say that the parents of Alpheus and > Christopher Columbus Clark were Thomas Clark and Elizabeth Davis, and that the correct tradition > is that the relationship to Jefferson Davis is through the mother, not the mother-in-law, of > Christopher Columbus Clark. "<< > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NCRANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/815 - Release Date: 5/22/2007 3:49 PM > >