Died: Aug. 18, 1656 in Barnstable Mass.

Died: Nov. 6, 1675 in Barnstable Mass.

Born: Jan 5., 1642 in Mass.

Died: 1705 in Woodbridge, N.J.

Other Children of Mary Bloomfield and Jonathon Singletary (Dunham):

Mary Singletary (Born Dec. 29, 1661)

Mary Singletary (Born Feb. 3, 1663 or 1664)

Sarah Singletary (Born Feb. 3, 1663)

Ruth Singletary (Born 1666)

Unis Singletary alias Dunham (Born in 1668-1669)

Jonathan Dunham (Born Sept. 24, 1672)

David Dunham (Born March 10, 1674)

Joanna Dunham (1675)

Nathaniel Dunham (Born Feb. 8, 1677)

Nathaniel Dunham the Second (Born April 10, 1679).

Born: About 1699

Died: March 16, 1770

Other Children of Rebecca and John Bunch:

John Bunch (Born about 1715)

William Bunch (Born 1718)

Henry Bunch (Born 1720)

David Bunch (Born June 26, 1722)

James Bunch (Born 1724)

Lucretia Bunch (Born 1728)

Born: Aug. 20, 1696 in Woodbridge, N.J.

Died: Sept. 12, 1766 in Woobridge, N.J.

Born: 1681 in Woodbridge, N.J.

Other children of Mary Rolph and Benjamin Dunham:

Richard Dunham (Born May 28, 1707)

Katherine Dunham (Born May 12, 1708)

Benjamin Dunham (Born Dec. 4, 1712)

Hannah Dunham (Born about 1714)

Died: May 1793 in Mifflin Co., Pa.

Born: 1703

Died: July 24, 1738 in Prince William Co., Va.

Born: Aug. 22, 1716

Died: After 1745

Born: 1728 in New Castle, Del.

Died: 1803

Born: Oct. 6, 1721 in Hanover Co., Va.

Died: June 4, 1822 in Clark Co., Ky.

Born: 1726 in Hanover Co., Va.

Died: Jan. 31, 1792

Other children of Mary Hudson and Samuel Bunch:

Rebecca Bunch (Born about 1748)

James Bunch (Born about 1750)

Samuel Bunch (Born about 1754)

Ann Bunch (Born about 1756)

Judith Bunch (Born about 1759)

Mary Bunch (Born about 1761)

George Bunch (Born about 1763-1765)

John Bunch (Born about 1770)

Born: About 1738

Born: Dec. 27, 1717

Died: 1791

Other likely children of Mary Smith and Jonathon Dunham:

Ephraim Dunham (Born about 1730)

Experience Dunham

Jonathan Dunham

Joseph Dunham

Daniel Dunham (Born about 1733)

Benjamin Dunham (Born Nov. 17, 1738)

Elizabeth Dunham (Born Dec. 27, 1740)

Asher Dunham (Born July 15, 1744)

William Smith Dunham (Born Nov. 24, 1746)

Hannah Dunham (Born Aug. 5, 1748)

Died: Nov. 4, 1836 in Madison Co., Ohio

Born: Oct. 27, 1732 in Virginia

Died: Dec. 5, 1816 in Bullitt Co. Ky.

Born: About 1745 in Culpeper Co., Va.

Died: Before 1833 in Harrison Co., Ky.

Born: About 1754

Died: June 6, 1823 in Nelson Co., Ky.

Born: 1726

Died: 1792

Born: 1769 in Louisa Co., Va

Died: 1792

Other children of Mary Bellamy and Charles Bunch:

Charles Bunch (Born between 1791-1800)

Susan Bunch (Born about 1797)

Born: About 1758

Died: 1826 in Butler Co., Ohio

Other children Hannah and Samuel Dunham:

Ruth Dunham (Born about 1771)

Mary Dunham (Born about 1773)

Samuel Dunham (Born about 1774)

David Dunham (Born about 1776)

Hannah Dunham (Born about 1779)

Amos Dunham (Born June 14, 1781)

Sina Dunham (Born 1784)

Benjamin Washington Dunham (Born about 1785)

Aaron Dunham (Born about 1790)

Born: About 1790 in Maryland

Died: 1868 in Tipton Co., Ind.

Born: 1780 in Culpeper Co., Va.

Died: After 1820

Born: in North Carolina

Barack Obama apparently has Irish roots on multiple branches of his family tree.

A fair amount of attention has been given to Falmouth (or Fulmuth) Kearney, Obama's great- great- great grandfather on his grandfather's side. Kearney sailed from Ireland -- Moneygall, County Offaly, according to some researchers -- to New York in 1850, when he was about 18. Read More

Born: 1793 in Overton Co., Tenn.

Died: 1874 in Dinsmore, Newton Co., Ark.

Other children:

Mary “Polly” Bunch (Born 1811)

John Bunch (Born Dec. 1, 1812)

Charles Bunch (Born: Oct. 29, 1815)

Calvin B. Bunch (Born March 4, 1817)

Bradley Bunch (Born Dec. 9, 1818)

Obedience Bunch (Born March 12, 1820)

Nathaniel Bunch Jr. (Born June 14, 1824, Died Feb. 27, 1896)

Nancy Bunch (Born Jan. 24, 1826)

Larkin C. Bunch (Born Oct. 24, 1827) | More infor on Larkin

Born: 1794 in Montgomery Co., Pa.

Died: After 1870 in Tipton, Ind.

Other Children of Catherine Goodnight and Jacob Dunham:

Amos Dunham (Born about 1828)

Samuel Goodnight Dunham (Born Sept. 27, 1830)

Mary Ellen Dunham (Born July 28, 1834)

David Dunham (Born August 29, 1836)

Catherine Goodnight Dunham is one of the links between Barack Obama and Harry S Truman.

She was Obama's great- great- great- great grandmother, and her first cousin once removed was Rachael Goodnight Young, Truman's great-grandmother.



If you're keeping score, that makes Truman Obama's fourth cousin four times removed.

Catherine Goodnight is also the grandniece of George Goodnight, who is the great-grandfather of famed cattle pioneer Charles Goodnight, according to family genealogies.

A former Texas ranger, Charles Goodnight drove cattle from Texas to New Mexico and invented the chuckwagon along the way. He is said to be part of the inspiration for the character Woodrow Call in Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer-prize winning novel Lonesome Dove. Read More

Born: About 1816 in Virginia
Occupation: 1860 Farmer in Tipton Co., Ind. Died: Feb. 12, 1882 He can't prove it, but David Lee Dunham is certain that Eliza Jane Clemmons was a distant cousin of Samuel Clemens, the famed humorist known as Mark Twain. Read More

Born: Unknown
Died: Unknown

Born: About 1821 in Kentucky

Died: After 1870

Other children of Elizabeth Davis and Thomas Clark:

George W. Clark (Born about 1838)

Sarah Clark (Born about 1840)

Thaddeus or Thadeus Clark (Born December 1844)

Addison Clark (Born about 1847)

Francis or Marion Clark (Born about 1850)

Samuel V. Clark (Born about 1854)

Elizabeth “Lizzy” Clark (Born about 1852)

Thomas A. Clark (Born December 1855)

Alpheus Clark (Born November 1857)

Jesse or Jessy Clark (Born about 1850)

...genealogist William Addams Reitwiesner has written that it was actually Clark's mother, Elizabeth Davis -- not his mother-in-law -- who was related to Jefferson Davis. Read More

Born: March 26, 1826 in Nelson Co. Ky.

Died: Dec. 18, 1855 in Nelson Co. Ky.

Other likely children of George Washington Duvall and Louisiana Duvall:

James Bell Overall (Born about 1843)

William Overall (Born about 1844)

M. Overall (Born about 1846)

M. Overall (Born about 1847)

Gabriel T. Overall (Born about 1851)

Born: July 18, 1806 in Bourbon Co., Ky.

Died: Oct. 26, 1892 in Hurdland, Knox Co., Mo.

Other likely children of Sarah Taylor and John S. Black:

Thomas Black (Born about 1838)

Alexander Black (Born about 1839)

George Black (Born about 1841)

John Black (Born about 1843)

Ambrose Black (Born about 1845)

Mary Black (Born about 1849)

Born: 1799 in Maryland (or Pennsylvania?)

Died: After 1880. At the age of 81, she was living with her daughter and son-in-law, Rachel and Robert Wolfley on their farm in Johnson Co., Kansas.

Other likely children of Adah Wright and Jonathan Abbott:

Elijah Abbott (Born about 1829)

Matilda Abbott (Born about 1831)

Mary Abbott (Born about 1833)

Ada Abbott (Born about 1837)

Jude Abbott (Born about 1840)

Born: March 27, 1814 in Overton Co., Tenn.

Occupation: Farmer in Osage Township, Carroll Co., Ark., in 1880.

Died: June 21, 1893 in Osage, Newton Co., Ark.

Other likely children of Anna Bunch and Samuel Thompson Allred:

Nathaniel Allred (Born about 1832)

John Allred (Born about 1833)

Obediah Allred (Born about 1835)

Sarah Allred (Born about 1836)

Phebe Allred (Born about 1838)

Isaac Allred (Born about 1840)

Nancy Allred (Born about 1842)

Anna Allred (Born about 1843)

Mary E. Allred (Born about 1845)

Orleana Allred (Born about 1846)

Andrew Allred (Born about 1848)

Samuel A. Allred (Born about 1849)

Reuben K. Allred (born about 1853)

Eliza J. Allred (Born about 1856)

Cynthia E. Allred (Born about 1858).

Born: Oct. 8, 1837 in Madison Co., Ohio

Died: Oct. 26, 1901 in Wellston, Oklahoma Territory

Other children of Louisa Eliza Stroup and Jacob Mackey Dunham:

David Henry Dunham (Born May 17, 1854)

Jeptha Dunham (Born June 13, 1857)

Martha Catharine Dunham (Born February 1860)

Joseph Dunham (Born March 15, 1866)

Samuel Lemuel Dunham (Born March 19, 1871)

Mary Mae Dunham (Born Oct. 18, 1882)

Born: About 1834 in Ohio

Died: Sept. 11, 1877

Other Children of Charlotte Hollowell and Falmouth Kearney:

Phebe Kearney (Born about 1853)

Elizabeth Kearney (Born about 1855)

Martha Kearney (Born about 1857)

Margaret Kearney (Born about 1859)

William Kearney (Born about 1863)

Joseph Kearney (Born about 1865)

Falmouth Kearney (Born about 1867)

Born: June 1849 in Nelson Co., Ky.

Died: Before 1920

Other children of Susan C. Overall and Christopher Columbus Clark:

Joseph Clark (Born about 1871)

Louisiana Clark (Born about 1873)

Ida E. Clark (Born about 1878)

Jamie Clark (Born about 1883)

Fannie Clark (Born November 1882)

Born: April 3, 1837 in Quincy, Adams Co., Ill.

Died: 1921 in Kansas City, Mo.

Other children:

Alexander W. Payne (Born about 1867).

Born: December 1835 in Licking Co., Ohio

Died: After 1900

Other children of Rachel Abbott and Robert Wolfley:

Ann Wolfley (Born about 1861)

George Wolfley (Born about 1870)

Robert Louis Wolfley (Born about 1877)

Born: March 23, 1827 in Illinois

Died: Jan. 15, 1918 in Ada, Oklahoma Territory

Other children:

William Worth McCurry (Born about 1849)

Edward McCurry (Born about 1852)

Mary McCurry (Born between 1855-1858)

Samuel McCurry (Born about 1859)

John McCurry (Born about 1860)

Jacob McCurry (Born about 1861)

Sophronia McCurry (Born about 1863)

Arthur McCurry (Born about 1865)

Daniel McCurry (Born about 1868)

Albert McCurry (Born about 1871)

Born: 1834 in Overton Co., Tenn.

Died: After 1880

Other likely children of Frances Allred and Joseph Samuel Wright:

Lewis B. Wright (Born about 1859)

Sarah M. Wright (Born about May 1860)

Thomas B. Wright (Born about 1861)

Mary Ann Wright (Born about 1863)

Catharine A. Wright (Born about 1865)

Abner Wright (Born about 1867)

Emma A. Wright (Born about 1868)

Iredale D. Wright (Born about 1871)

William W. Wright (Born about 1874)

Martha Wright (Born about 1876); Benjamin Wright (Born about 1878)

Born: Sept. 19, 1869 in Tipton Co., Ind.

Died: Aug. 13, 1936 in Wichita, Kansas

Other children of Mary Ann Kearney and Jacob William Dunham:

Hattie Dunham (Born Dec. 2, 1980)

Mable (or Mabel) C. Dunham (Born Feb. 11, 1892

Frank V. Dunham (Born May 22, 1893)

Christobel Beatrice Dunham (June 22, 1897)

Pearl Dunham Jackson (Born March 22, 1899)

Earl Dewey Dunham (Born Feb. 22, 1900)

Born: June 1877 in Missouri
Died: After 1930
Other children of Gabriella Clark and Harry Ellington Armour:

Doris E. Armour (Born about 1906)

Born: May 1863 in Ohio

Died: Between 1900 – 1910

Other Children of Della Wolfley and Charles T. Payne:

Lillian “Lily” D. Payne (Born Dec 1889)

Estella M. Payne (Born May 1894)

Frank Bourke (or Burke F.) Payne (Born Jan. 1896)

Elivie (Or Elva) Payne (Born November 1897)

Ora B. Payne (Born April 1900)

Born: Aug. 11, 1869 in Dry Fork, Carroll Co., Kansas

Died: Nov. 28, 1935 in Elk City, Kansas

Other children of Margaret Belle Wright and Thomas Creekmore McCurry:

Jacob M. McCurry (Born August 1885)

Thomas Wilburn McCurry (Born Jan. 1889)

Joseph E. McCurry (Born Jan. 1891)

Franklin W. McCurry (Born Jan. 1893)

John R. McCurry (Born March 11, 1895)

Ruth McCurry (Born July 1899)

Margaret Belle Wright McCurry didn't do anything to get written up in the history books.

But her life -- and certainly her biscuits -- probably should have been. Read More

Born: Sept. 1, 1900 in Illinois

Died: Nov. 25, 1926 in Wichita, Kansas (suicide)

Other children of Ruth Lucille Armour and Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham Sr.: Ralph Dunham Jr. (Born Aug. 29, 1916) Virginia Goeldner's mother was Dunham's second wife. His first wife -- Obama's great-grandmother -- took her own life in 1926. Read More

Born: May 1897 in Kansas

Died: After 1930

Other children of Leona McCurry and Rolla Charles Payne:

Charles Payne (Born about 1925)

Arlene Payne (Born about 1926)

Born: October 1922 in Kansas

Occupation: Bank vice president.

Right after he gave the most important political speech of his life -- the electrifying 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address that made him a household name -- Barack Obama got a call from his grandmother.

"My grandmother's from the Midwest, so she has a real low-key sensibility," Obama told a reporter the morning after the speech. "She called up, and she said, 'You did well.' And I said, 'Thank you.' Read More

Born: Nov. 29, 1942 in Kansas

Married to Barack Obama's Father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr.: 1960.

Occupation: Cultural anthropologist.
Died: Nov. 7, 1995

His first book was titled Dreams From My Father, but Barack Obama has said that, after his mother's death to cancer in 1995, he wishes he had written more about her.

Obama has called her death of ovarian cancer at age 53 the worst experience of his life and said, "The biggest mistake I made was not being at my mother's bedside when she died. Read More

She is first wife of Barack Hussein Obama Sr. Mother of Abongo (Roy) Obama, Auma Obama, Abo Obama and Bernard Obama

This is Barack Sr.’s third wife. Mother of Mark and David.

Hussein Onyango Obama's 1st wife, no children

Second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama. Mother of Sarah Obama, Barack Obama Sr. and Auma Obama

Third wife of Hussein Onyango Obama. Other children of Sarah and Hussein Onyango Obama:

Omar (oldest son)

Zeituni (2nd oldest daughter)

Yusuf (3rd oldest son)

Sayed (youngest son)

She's really his step-grandmother, but Barack Obama calls her "Granny."

Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama's face was "smooth and big-boned, with sparkling, laughing eyes," Obama wrote in Dreams From My Father of his first visit with her. "She hugged Auma and Roy as if she were going to wrestle them to the ground, then turned to me and grabbed my hand in a hearty handshake." Read More

Other Children of Nyaoke and Obama: They had four before Hussein Onyango Obama was born in 1895.