"Jack Tyler" > wrote in message
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> The Galloping Gourmand wrote:
> >
> > Yes, we are probably about ninth cousins. I'm related to both Adams,
> > Pierce, Grant, and the Bushs and Taft, but I haven't looked up Tyler.
>
> Jack is my nickname. My name is John Tyler. President John Tyler,
> Harry Truman and I are all descended from the same person (John Tyler),
> the first white child born in Kentucky (1775 in Boonesboro). Back when
> I had more time to waste, I was active in a slew of lineage
> societies... now, I can barely remember the names of all of them. My
> Tyler ancestors came to this country from Kent, England in the middle
> 1600's through Maryland... then moved through Virginia to Kentucky...
> then Arkansas... then (unfortunately) Oklahoma... then Texas.
>
> Jack


Uncle Jack.
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