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Tue Jul-31-07 06:33 PM
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Name the most famous and/or interesting person on your family tree...I'll start...

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Edited on Tue Jul-31-07 06:35 PM by SaveElmer

I have a few I would consider interesting...but I think the one that is kind of the coolest...

My Great-great Granduncle, Alonzo E Bunker, was one of the cashiers working in the Northfield Bank in Northfield, MN the day the James-Younger gang tried to rob it...he tried to escape out the back door while the robbers were distracted and was shot in the shoulder...but he escaped and aided in warning the town...he recovered and became very successful businessman and journalist in California...

The other cashier Joseph Heywood was killed...

The James-Younger gang was ambushed by the town as they tried to escape and only Jesse and Frank James got away...

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