Monday, May 11, 2009

Some Slechta's related to Obama

This is some very interesting information about some Slechta's. I want to thank Brain Valco for the information and I am posting what he sent me.  I seems he had some trouble posting and/or contacting me through my blog.  If anyone else has any issue you can find me on facebook.  Please let me know if you have issues I would like to resolve them if I can.
 
 
Hi,

How's it going?

I was reading your blog and trying to reach you there but it wasn't working.

http://slechtahistory.blogspot.com

Turns out one branch is related to Pres. Obama through his mother. Josephine Childress married Ernest Edward Slechta on May 13, 1908 in Deloit, Iowa and their marriage had issue.

Josephine Slechta was a first cousin of Harry E. Armour, a plumber in El Dorado, Kansas as well as Pres. Obama's great-great grandfather.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34342517
http://iagenweb.org/crawford/marriagenotice4.html
http://virts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gwgustaf/library/Base/d169.htm#P32967
http://www.geocities.com/momdit2/childress.html
http://www.childers-childress.com/spanningpart3.html


That's sort of neat, right?


Cheers,

Brain



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1 comment:

Paul Slechta said...

(Brain sent me this as well)

Actually that same Josephine Slechta was also more distantly related to another POTUS, Lyndon Baines Johnson. http://www.newenglandancestors.org/pdfs/587_lbj_obama.pdf
(Nancy Ann Childress was a sister of Josephine Slechta's mother)