ME AND PRESIDENT GARFIELD
November 19th, 2007
This is the WWI Draft Registration card that my great grandpa Karns filled out in 1917. Robert John Karns is rumored to have died around 1921 (when my grandpa was only 2 or 3 years old) in a bar fight at the Saloon he owned in Kansas City.
I was able to trace my grandpa Karns’ ancestry through his mother’s lineage back to the 15th century and found some very interesting information. Through this particular branch, my family came from England in the 1600’s to St. Mary’s, Maryland where they eventually made their way to Kentucky and then Kansas City, Missouri where my grandpa was born.
Some famous people I am related to are:
President James Garfield (2nd president to be assasinated)
President Ronald Reagan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Amelia Earhart
Winslow Homer
George Orwell
Audrey Hepburn
All very distantly of course, but still fun information to know!
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November 22nd, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Hey Eric. Happy Thanksgiving!
I’ll be home in December, so hopefully we can meet up. I don’t have any plans yet from the 22nd to the 29th (besides Christmas of course) so if you’re in MI, let me know.
Do you have any detailed family tree information about our distant relatives? I’m really surprised to hear all of this, and very interested to find out how you discovered all of it.
-Jon