My Family in History

Really cool tidbit of information, my family (both sides) are in history... Simon Cameron (Simeon by some accounts) was the Secretary of War under President Lincoln at the beginning of the Civil War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Cameron. His son, James Donald Cameron, served as Secretary of War under U. S. Grant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Donald_Cameron(okay, I don't know how closely related we are, per se). But, something cool about THAT is that my Grandpa Cameron's name is Donald and my Dad's name is James.... Woah.


On my Grandma Nancy's side of the family, we have Christopher Gist.... Wait for it... a close friend of George Washington... WUT?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gist . Somewhere in there is a guy named States Rights Gist. I kid you not. His name was freaking STATES RIGHTS! Of course, he was a Confederate in the Civil War...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_Rights_Gist