I know what you mean by interesting characters in ones tree.  Take my
Huffstutler family.  My grandfather was married 3 time, the first to a
woman who later married in 1946 to a Robert Lee Perrin.  The same person
that Jim Garrison of the Warren Commission hearing concerning the President
J.F.K. assassinations suspected as being the person in the grassy knoll who
fired the fatal shot.  He believed that Perrin's suicide death in 1962 was
faked (that one is still out as there are physical discrepancies on autopsy
report and lived to fire that shot as he was mixed up with Jack Ruby and
ran guns to Cuba.

Another colorful character is a Huffstutler great.... grandmother Elizabeth
Roberts married one of the notorious Harp Brothers - America's first and
most brutal serial killers.  After he was caught and hung and the women
escaped jail time, she remarried to John Huffstutler.

Eric S. Huffstutler
Richmond, VA



Original Message:
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From: Fern [log in to unmask]
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:58:03 -0600
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Fading interest in Genealogy


Mickey, I think we all have the various Rogues and a few mis-fits dangling 
from our family trees.  It takes a good mix to make a strong family tree... 
One of my cousins killed an appeals court Judge on the "Ladies" entrance 
steps to a Frankfort, KY. hotel.  One of his brothers killed a sheriff who 
managed to kill him before he died.  Maybe I should have left out the gory 
details when I wrote my book but I wrote it all down and it is there for 
generations upon generations to read about.  I got a kick out of reading
the 
newspaper articles about it and figured others would too.  On the brighter 
side I have a cousin who fired the first shot at Gettysburg.  The
Gettysburg 
story is here:  http://www.bufordfamilies.com/Gettysburg.htm  The rest is
in 
my book..

Take care everyone and stay cool.  Our summer here in Colorado has been
VERY 
pleasant without one single 100 degrees day.  YEH!!!!

fern
www.bufordfamilies.com

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