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10th Great-Grandparents
Samuel Hinckley
Married Sarah Soole: May 17, 1617

Died: Oct. 31, 1662 in Barnstable Mass.

It sure would be an awkward family reunion. But, believe it or not, Barack Obama is related to both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

OK, distantly related: Obama and Bush are 11th cousins.

That's because they share the same great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great- great grandparents -- Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole Hinckley of 17th century Massachusetts.

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Sarah Soole
Died: Aug 18,1656

9th Great-Grandparents
John Smith
Died: Oct 2, 1710
Susannah Hinckley
Died: Nov 6,1675
Mareen Duvall
Died: 1694 in Maryland
Susanna Brasseur
Died: 1692

8th Great-Grandparents
Samuel Smith
Oct 20,1644-Dec 15,1719
Elizabeth Peirce
Jonathon Singletary alias Dunham
Mary Bloomfield
Jan 5,1642-1705
John Rolph
Mary Sculliard
Mareen Duvall
Died: June 1741
Elizabeth Jacob
John Bunch
Rebecca
abt.1699-Mar 16,1770

7th Great-Grandparents
Shubael Smith
Jan 2,1692-May 31,1769
Prudence FitzRandolph
Aug 20,1696-Sept 12,1766
Benjamin Dunham
Aug 22,1681-Dec 31,1715
Mary Rolph
Born: 1681
Johann Philip Straub
Barbara
Ulrich Stehle
Anna
Died: May 1793
John Overall
1701-1743
Mary Elliot
1703-1738
William Whitledge
abt.1712-Aug 5,1782
Frances Overall
Aug 22,1716-after 1745
John Browning
1728-Dec 1803
Elizabeth Demarest
1728-1803
James Hickman
March 3,1723-April 16,1816
Hannah Lewis
Oct 6,1721-June 4,1822
Jacob Duvall
April 19,1715-March 7,1796
Mary Miles (Bourne?)
Born: 1719
James Tarleton
Died: April 10,1756
Ann Henning
Samuel Bunch
1726 - 1783
Mary Hudson
1726-Jan 31, 1792
John Bellamy
abt.1735 - 1815
Susan Roe
Born: abt.1738

6th Great-Grandparents
Mary Smith
Dec 27, 1717 - 1791
Jonathon Dunham
Jan 1710 - Sept 21,1748
Christian Gutknecht-Goodnight
Maria Magdalena
Leonhard Berkheimer
Maria Catharina
John Stroup
Died: Feb. 4. 1832
Mary Stehle
Died: Nov. 4, 1835
John Overall
1735 - March 16, 1821
Frances Whitledge
Oct 27, 1732 - Dec 5, 1816
James Browning
Susannah Hickman
abt. 1745 - before 1833
John Miles Duvall
abt. 1745 - 1787
Anne Roselle Philomena Tarleton
James Wilborn
Mary Isabel Teague
Solomon Allred
1734(?) - 1790
Mary
1726 - 1792
Charles Bunch
1765 - Jan 9, 1792
Mary Bellamy
1769-1792

5th Great-Grandparents
Samuel Dunham
Hannah
abt.1758 - 1826
Samuel Goodnight
1761 - 1845
Magdalena Berkheimer
Born: abt.1764
William Stroup
April 27, 1785 - Nov 3, 1863
Ann Thomas
abt.1790 - 1868
Robert Overall
abt.1770 - March 12, 1801
Annie Browning
1780 - 1820
Gabriel Duvall
Oct 3, 1787 - Aug 1, 1827
Mary Grable
Oct 13, 1791 - Aug 6, 1868
John Block
Unknown
George Taylor
1787 - After 1850
Mary Thomas
1787 - abt.1840
Abraham Wright
1755 - March 23, 1833
Naomi
1757 - June 26, 1823
John McCurry
Lydia Williams
Ruth Wilburn
Born in N.C.
John Wilson
Died: abt. 1830

John Allred
June 7, 1772 - Nov 5, 1828
Phoebe Thompson
Born: 1787 in Randolph N.C.
Nathaniel Bunch
4.23.1793 - 4.16.1859
Sarah Wade Ray
1793 - 1874

4th Great-Grandparents
Jacob Dunham
May 1, 1795 - July 30, 1865
Catherine Goodnight
1794 - after 1870
John Stroup
abt. 1814 - Aug 12, 1851
Eliza Jane Clemmons
abt. 1816 - Feb. 12, 1882
Joseph Kearney
Phoebe
Thomas Clark
abt.1811 - After 1870
Elizabeth Davis abt.1821 - After 1870
George Washington Overall July 4, 1820 - Jan. 9, 1871
Louisiana Duvall March 26 1826 - Dec 18, 1855
John S. Black
Aug 9, 1805 - May 19, 1870
Sarah Taylor
July 18, 1806 - Oct. 26, 1892
Jonathan Abbott
Died: 1848
Adah Wright
1799 - After 1880
Edward McCurry
1790 - 1844
Christine Wilson
Thomas Creekmore
Born in Virginia
Mary Edna Ellis
Born in Va. or N.C.
Obediah C. Wright
May 9, 1787 - March 3, 1876
Malinda Jones
Died: Before 1850
Samuel Thompson Allred
Oct. 6, 1809 - Nov. 4, 1857
Anna Bunch
March 27, 1814 - June 21, 1893

3rd Great-Grandparents
Jacob Mackey Dunham
May 7, 1824 - June 12, 1907
Louisa Eliza Stroup
Oct. 8, 1837 - Oct. 26, 1901
Falmouth Kearney
1832 - March 21, 1878
Charlotte Hollowell
abt.1834 - Sept. 11, 1877
Christopher Columbus Clark 1846 - After 1930
Susan C. Overall
1849 - Before 1920
George Armour
1850 - after 1880
Anne
1849 - after 1880
Benjamin Payne
April 30, 1839 - April 15, 1878
Eliza Black
April 3, 1837 - 1921
Robert Wolfley
1834 - July 1895
Rachel Abbott
December 1835 - After 1900
Harbin Wilburn McCurry March 11, 1823 - July 24, 1899
Elizabeth Edna Creekmore
March 23,1827 - Jan 15,1918
Joseph Samuel Wright
1819 - Apr 29,1894
Frances Allred
1834 - aft.1880

2nd Great-Grandparents
Jacob William Dunham Feb 7, 1863 - Aug 13, 1936
Mary Ann Kearney
Sept 19,1869-Aug 13,1936
Gabriella Clark
June 1877 - after 1930
Harry Ellington Armour
Jan 10,1874-after 1930
Charles T. Payne
June 1861 - After 1930
Della Wolfley
May 1863 - Before 1910
Thomas Creekmore McCurry Jan 1850 - 1939
Margaret Belle Wright Aug 11 1869 - Nov 28, 1935

Great-Grandparents
Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham Sr.
Ruth Lucille Armour
Sept 1,1900 - Nov 25,1926
Rolla Charles Payne
Aug 23,1892-Oct 1968
Leona McCurry
May 1897-after 1930

Grandparents
Stanley Armour Dunham March 3, 1918 - Feb. 8, 1992
Madelyn Lee Payne Born: October 1922

Mother
Stanley Ann Dunham
Barack's Mother
Lolo Soetoro
Barack's Stepfather
Abongo (Roy) Obama
Half-Brother
Auma Obama
Half-Sister
Abo Obama
Half-Brother
Bernard Obama
Half-Brother

Maya Soetoro
Half-Sister
Mark
Half-Brother
David
Half-Brother
George
Half-Brother

Father
Kezia 1st wife
Barack Hussein Obama Sr.
Barack's Father
Ruth
3rd Wife
Unknown, Barack Obama Sr.'s fourth partner
Grandparents
Helima,
1st wife
Hussein Onyango Obama 1895-1979
Akumu,
2nd wife
Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama, 3rd wife
Great-Grandparents
Obama
Nyaoke


2nd Great-Grandparents
Obiyo
Unknown


3rd Great-Grandparents
Okoth
Unknown


4th Great-Grandparents
Obongo
Unknown


5th Great-Grandparents
Otondi
Unknown


6th Great-Grandparents
Ogelo
Unknown


7th Great-Grandparents
Kisodhi
Unknown


8th Great-Grandparents
Owiny
Warrior & Leader
Unknown


9th Great-Grandparents
Sigoma
Unknown


10th Great-Grandparents
Miwiru
Unknown




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