Funny how you hear all these tales about your family but ca't really prove them. But I do know my granddad was a bootlegger and had his own still in Linville Gorge. He was also involed, do't know how much in the lynching of a fellow from the railroad trestle. There are also rumors about Indian blood in our system but I haven't been able to prove it. I do know that the larget Indian settlement in North Carolina was supposed to be in Burke County. There was also a spanish fort nearby because they have done digging into it. There was also the Melungeon factor in north western North Carolina also that was there in the 1500's before the English came to the shores of America. I haven't found Benjamin Wise from Mecklenburg County, NC. Was he an orhan, an illigetimate child or did he just drop out of the skies? Same and Henry Thomas who was born in Surry County, NC. But beware how far back you go for in ten generations, there are 1024 grandparents starting back with you as #1. In 20 generations, there are only 1048578 grandparents. And if you get the DNA test, you might end up alike myself from the Iberia penisula to Central Asia to the Eurasian Adam group in east central Africa. Oh, my cousins now don't want to know because as they say, there might be a horse thief in the bunch. Oh well. LOL, Larkin, descendant of Benjamin Wise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Billie Erin Walsh" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [WISE] Family Tale > Like the story of the ancestor that dies in the collapse of the podium > while guest of honor at a major town function? *<]:oD > > [email protected] wrote: >> Becky, finding Jewish roots wasn't the only thing that people might like >> to >> cover up. In my family there were a couple of Wise lines that also tried >> a >> cover up. I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I am strongly suspicious >> that it >> traces back to a Henry Wise who was hanged along with four others for a >> crime in Lebanon, Pennsylvania in 1880. The "Blue Eyed Six" case was >> publicized >> world wide and it would have been a major scandal to have been related >> to him. >> It turns out he wasn't "family" but I think those involved in the cover >> up >> thought that he was. >> >> Neil > > > -- > > > Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >