Years ago I bought the book THE HERITAGE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY,
GEORGIA (1831-1998). The bulk of the
book are little family essays of
families in Cherokee County. It has a
lot of genealogy information. As a
matter of fact, I wrote two of the articles.
Now that I updated my Family Tree Maker genealogy program I am re-reading the book to see if I
missed something, which I am finding I did.
This morning for instance, I
found that I am related to a member of the famed FYING TIGERS aviators of
WWII. Lt. Col. Orlando Waller Wood, Jr. and I are
both descended from Eugene Hargraves Tyson and Elizabeth Huey Tyson. He is a little too distant relative for a claim to fame, but interesting anyway.
Along those same lines as claiming my distant cousin Lt. Col. Orlando Waller Wood, Jr., FLYING
TIGER member, as a claim to fame, I was thinking it would be funny if I pulled
out my leather aviator jacket and buying me a pair of goggles and take on the personality of a
FLYING TIGER pilot.... as a joke, of course.
Which reminds me of a first cousin and her in-laws. At her wedding , her brother-in-law,
actually who would become her brother-in-law before the evening was over,
seemed like a studious sort of person,
polite and quiet. I think he lived near
his parents in Chattanooga. About ten years rolled by and I saw him at another
funeral. It seemed he was taller and
heavier. Also, he had on Indian
attire. I think he had a lot of leather
on and a feather someplace and maybe some color markings on his arms or
something . J asked my cousin what about her brother-in-law and she told me he
had gotten into genealogy and found out he is 1/32nd Indian. Kowubungi!
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