A Perrin? Ohmygosh, I am descended from them! An old Virginia family,  
going back to the 1600s. Yikes! Assassinating a president is a bit  
much...

Nancy

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On Jul 17, 2008, at 10:32 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> 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:
> -----------------
> 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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