Hello all! Yes, the list below is exactly what I was speaking of -- but what I was hoping to find out now is just HOW each of these people descend from Elder John, not just that they do! In the archives, we have the direct lines of Diana Spencer, Bess Wallace Truman and Margaret Truman, Sarah Delano and FDR, and the Revolutionary Patriot Nathan Hale. Can anyone post any others? Thanks! Marsha --------------------------------------------------------- It is in the book "Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630", volume 1. Famous Descendants of Elder John Strong *Following are some of the notable descendants of Elder John Strong (1610-1699), through his great-great-great grandson, Dr. Joseph Strong (1770-1812), who is also the ancestor of Lady Diana, Princess of Wales. All of these people are cousins to every descendant of John Strong. 1. Dean Acheson (1893-1897) U.S. Secretary of State under Truman 2. John Adams Jr. (1735-1826) Second U.S. President 3. John Quince Adams (1787-1848) Sixth U.S. President. 4. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Novelist 5. Horatio Alger Jr. (1834-1899) Novelist 6. Ethan Allen (1738-1789) Revolutionary soldier 7. Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906) Reformer & suffragette 8. Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) Author of The Wonderful Wizard of OZ 9. Henry Ward Beecher (1775-1863) Preacher and abolitionist 10. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) Twice U.S. President (22nd & 24th) 11. Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) Actor 12. Schuyler Colfax Jr. (1823-1885) U.S. Vice-President under Grant 13. Samuel Colt (1814-1862) Firearms manufacturer. Inventor of the "Colt 45" 14. Charles Gates Dawes (1872-1933) U.S. Vice-President under Coolidge 15. Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (1872-1933) The 30th. U.S. President 16. George Dewey (1873-1917) Admiral who captured Manila 17. Thomas Dewey (1902-1971) Governo of New York & Presidential candidate 18. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Poetess 19. John Foster Dulles (1888-1959) U.S. Secretary of State under Eisenhower 20. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Philosopher, Essayist, & poet 21. Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) Thirteenth U.S. President 22. George Gallop (1901- )Pollster 23. Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1897) Detective novelist 24. Dorothy Gish (1898-1968) Actress 25. Lillian Gish (1896- ) Actress 26. Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) Author of "Man Without A Country" 27. Nathan Hale (1755-1776) Revolutionary Hero 28. Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) Ninteenth U.S. President 29. Christian Herter (1895-1967) U.S. Secretary of State under Eisenhower 30. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr (1841-1967) Jurist 31. Lamar Hunt (1932- ) Oilman & billionaire 32. Donald L. Jacobus (1887-1970) Genealogist 33. Spencer Woolley Kimball (1895- ) President of Morman Church sine 1973 34. Henry Cabot Lodge II (1902- ) Vice-President candidate 35. Clare Boothe Luce (1903- ) Playwright & Congresswoman 36. Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Poet &Playwright 37. John Phillips Marquand II (1893-1960) Novelist 38. George McCleeland (1826-1885) Union General. Presidential Candidate. 39. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) Anthropolgist 40. Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899) Founder of the Moody Bible Institute 41. John Pierpont Morgan (1867-1943) Banker 42. Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920) U.S. Vice-President under Harrison. 43. Frederick Olmsted (1822-1920) Designer of Central Park, New York City 44. Anthony Perkins (1932- ) Actor 45. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910) Short Story Writer 46. Lee Remick (1935- )Actress 47. John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) Oil tycoon & philanthropist 48. Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1978) U.S. Vice-President under Gerald Ford 49. David Rockefeller (1915- )Financier 50. George Romney (1907- ) President of American Motors & Governor of Michigan 51. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) Thirty-second U.S. President 52. Harriett Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Abolitionist & Authoress of "Uncle Tom's Cabin 53. Lowell Thomas (1892-1981) Radio-TV Commentator & Travel Author 54. Bess Wallace ( -1982) Wife of President Harry Truman 55. Gloria Vanderbuilt ( ) Socialite 56. Noah Webster, Jr (1758-1843) Writer of Webster's Dictionary 57. Orson Welles (1915- ) Actor & Producer 58. Paul Dudley White (1886-1973) Physician & Heart Specialist 59. Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) Co-inventor of the airplane 60. Orville Wright (1871-1948) Co-inventor of the airplane