Warren's Native ancestry so many gens back her closest NA relative could actually be Pocahantas [TR]

Twitter ^ | 11/15/2018 | Mark Hemingway

[MountainWalker]

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A friend points out that Warren's purported native American ancestry is so many generations back her closest Native American relative could actually be Pocahantas.

[Pelham]

wardaddy has the last name of one of the First Families of Virginia and they claim descent from Pocahontas.

My earliest Jamestown ancestor, 'Ancient Planter' Capt. William Powell, was part of the Colony and surely knew Pocahontas, but unlike the uppity FFV's I'm not related to her.

[Yaelle]

I’ve traced some on my mom’s side to a many generational Virginia family named Gee.

I’m so sorry you’re not related to Pocahontas. Just think of all the jobs you cold have had with that handy trick! Apparently native tribes LOVE IT too when you start pretending you’re one of them.

[wardaddy]

I’ve got way too many bones in my closet to run for even local school board

Y’all are too kind

Just got back from Baton Rouge where our Tigers whipped Georgia

I drove right by BA south of Jax

came home with a stomach virus ...weak as a kitten

Like a nine year old wanting mommy to pass the paregoric

BA there is a new loop around Memphis opening in one week that is interstate 269 which bypasses Memphis from about 30 miles east from I 40 to about 25 miles south at Hernando Miss on 55

Man that will make the drive so much easier than the old inner loop 240 which always bogged up

I can make Nashville to Jackson in 5.5 hours easy that way

Used to be a toss up Memphis or Birmingham

Man I bet I’ve made that drive 50-60 times past 20 years at least

[wardaddy]

There is crossover between my ancestry to Pocahontas and Rolfe

Byrd and Bolling and Hopkins

Byrd is my surname but our most direct line to Pocahontas is through the Sullivan line

Sullivan’s Hollow Mississippi

My wife is more gentry than I

Wade and Barksdale

They gave land for DC. and were landed in antebellum era

Of course it left them without a whole lot in 1866

My wife’s gg grandma...we still maintain the graveyard

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2565830/barksdale-cemetery

[Black Agnes]

You take care of yourself. Stomach viruses are the dickens.

That new loop would have been great 20 years ago when hubby’s job had him driving all over the SE. He’s always hated the ‘non loop’ cities.

LSU is our ‘second’ team we root for. That big cat is gorgeous. We need to visit red stick sometime just to see that cat.