Hi Thelma: I would be very interested in swapping Allred genealogy info with you. Linda Allred Cooper www.allredfamily.com -----Original Message----- >From: Thelma Nation <tnation@panhandle.net> >Sent: May 23, 2007 9:52 PM >To: ncrandol@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NCRANDOL] Obama's CLARK connection > >Interesting Tim, my grand daughter is married to an Allred that were in NC >and then TN ending up in WY, I have his genealogy as his mother is a strong >Mormon. >Thelma >----- 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 9:01 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 >> > > >------------------------------- >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