Hi Nola, Tim & Fay: An article would be very interesting. However, please do not include any mention of the possible Allred descendancy until that genealogy has been documented. To my knowledge, this has not been properly documented - although it looks good on paper at first glance. I am thinking of writing an article about the Allred family lineage for our quarterly Allred Family Newsletter - possibly the Fall or Winter 2007 issue - but have not started working on the article or documentation yet. Linda Allred Cooper www.allredfamily.com -----Original Message----- >From: Nola Duffy <nduffy@patch.net> >Sent: May 23, 2007 1:08 PM >To: ncrandol@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NCRANDOL] Obama's CLARK connection > >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 >> >> > > >------------------------------- >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