Just Making the Rounds

I have been climing up and down the family tree again like a little genealogy marmoset and I found a couple of interesting relations. For instance, my grandmother's cousin, Martha Fagg (we are concerned about the pronuciation of her surname and hope it rhymes with bog and not brag), married Ulysses S Grant. No kidding. He was born in 1912 in Utah, and when his father Franklin Grant got up to name and bless him in sacrament meeting he was overcome by a sudden wave of patriotism and had a Mahonri Moriancumer Moment. Here's the two Ulysses S Grants together. They even look similar.
Can you guess which one is the famous war hero and former President of the United States?


















I also found that another of my grandmother's cousins, Cenella Fagg, is the mother of the LDS artist Al Rounds. This is him and one of his paintings.









Our stake clerk is named Micheal Rounds, and since today was ward conference, he was there at sacrament meeting sitting on the back row. I asked if he was related to Al Rounds. Lo and behold, he is a second cousin once removed to Al Rounds. So, Mike and I are not related, but we are both second cousins once removed to the same guy. How special is that?

Caitlin's Personal Progress project is finally done!

After ten long hours at the computer, I have finished my Divine Nature personal progress project. The project I decided to do was a slideshow of the Davenport cousins that would help bring our families together even though we may live several hundred miles away. Since we all need to see it for my plan to unify the family to work, I've posted it here as well as on my Picasa site, so that you can view it whichever way you please. I hope you enjoy it and learn something new about the Davenport cousins that you may not have known before.

Here it is:

http://picasaweb.google.com/bolodolo27/TheDavenportCousins?authkey=-px-WJJx4TM#