Guess who was sleeping with whom?

Jennifer Hudson after receiving her Oscar for supporting actress in the movie, Dreamgirl said, "Look what God can do." Not quite in the same league, but with bible in his hand, Look what Rev. Al Sharpton can do. Sharpton is reported to have gone to the grave site of segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond, South Carolina ancestors. These ancestors held some of Sharpton's kin in bondage Coleman Sharpton was owned by Julia Coleman. Now we understand Rev. Sharpton love of the long flowing hair!

Sharpton appears stunned in learning that family members were enslaved. Hello this is America. Essie Washington, secret African-American daughter felt Al Sharpton was overreacting to the news that he might be kin to the late Senator Thurmond.

And if you go to Black Professor you will find the same type of awe expressed by legal scholars upon meeting the descendants of Dred Scott. It makes me wonder what do folks study about in history in school. Do they even talk to family members.

Or have they brought into the slavery happen long ago, that subject don't have anything to do with now. My daughter has a t-shirt that says I love black people. I don't know where that come from, but I saw it at an early age. Al Sharpton has made it fashionable to love black people who once were enslaved, because they just might be family.

Tracing that family tree-Senator Barack Obama

Who would have of thunk it. Senator Barack Obama may have some "black" cousins born in the Midwest. Senator Obama even has a connection to Indiana. A few of Sen. Obama's family members migrated to Tipton,Indiana.

According to a Baltimore Sun exclusive, a worker, William Addams Reitwiesner, in the Library of Congress, who on the side does genealogy. And in his spare time he has drafted a family tree report on Sen.Obama, and some other famous folks. And the worker did all this part time. Any one spending anytime in Allen County Public Library Genealogy Department, researching microfilm must be going wow. Not because he found planters in Sen. Obama 's family, but all the Reitwiesner's finds on political figures and others that he researched only part time.


We want to see the paper trail..documents, documents. Anyways. Sen. Obama's family on his mama side may have been planters. Translation, A few of Obama's mama family were slave masters or owners of indentured servants who were African-Americans.

In a reference to his American ancestry, Senator Obama writes "while one of my great-great-grandfathers, Christopher Columbus Clark, had been a decorated Union soldier, his wife's mother was rumored to have been a second cousin of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy."

Clark was actually Obama's great-great-great-grandfather, according to Reitwiesner's research and census data available at ancestry.com. A 1930 census document lists Clark, 84, living in the same El Dorado City, Kan., household as a 12-year-old great-grandson, Stanley A. Dunham. Dunham was Obama's grandfather.

From wargs website:

Christopher Columbus Clark, b. ... , Mo., ... 1846, d. ... [living 1930]
m. Nelson Co., Ky., 6 Jan. 1870

Susan C ... Overall, b. Nelson Co., Ky., ... 1849, d. ... [by 1920]

Clark being a descendant of Maureen Duvall a major land owner

The research traces the Duvalls to Mareen Duvall, a major land owner in Anne Arundel County in the 1600s. The inventory of his estate in 1694 names 18 slaves, according to a family history published in 1952.

Who is Mareen Duvall ?

From Notable Descendants of Maureen Duvall website:

Mareen Duvall was born about 1625, in the Kingdom of France and settled on the south side of the South River in Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland circa 1655. The first tract of land patented to him in 1659 by Lord Baltimore was called "Laval," the name of an ancient town, the capital of the present Department of Mayenne in France. He was a planter and merchant, and a public spirited citizen of the Province until his death in 1694. He resided at the time of his death at his estate, Middle Plantation, located on South River, and patented to him in 1664 by the Lord Proprietary. His public service consisted in part, with leadership in the Jacobite Party, and the Provincial Archives show his appointment to the Provincial Commission in 1683 by the Proprietary and Assembly, to lay out town sites and ports of entry for the encouragement of trade. He was the patentee of numerous tracts of land, and the purchaser of many others containing several thousand acres, as evidenced by the Public Land Records and his Will dated, and probated in August, 1694

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Mareen Duvall(1652-1694)came to America from Nantes, France with William Burgess. He is one of the founders of the Colony that became the State of Maryland and a direct descendant of King William the Conqueror of England. If you are a direct descendant of Mareen Duvall, you may want to seek membership in the Society of Descendants of Mareen Duvall (See link on this page). A book, originally published in 1952 by Harry Wright Newman, entitled "Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation: A Genealogical History", is available from the Society of which I am a LIFE Member (#956L). Other famous direct-line cousins to me by way of Mareen Duvall are President Harry S. Truman and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Hmm is it saying Vice President Dick Cheney, the Bushes side kick might be kin to Sen. Obama? Let's hear the rest of the story about Sen. Obama's mama's planter family members. Now see what Rev. Al Sharpton has started. Who next President George Bush, Jr.?