A couple of months ago I discovered I am kin to General Robert E. Lee. via a DNA test. We look alike. The Rosamond Genealogist has helped keep this connection, a secret. There is no bragging – why?
I Am Kin To Robert E. Lee
Posted on December 26, 2018
by Royal Rosamond PressRobert descends from the Lees of Hartwell House.
John Presco
https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Lee-of-Hartwell/6000000002809028093?through=6000000003263397662
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/106122713/person/190050776211/facts
Thomas Lee, of Hartwell, Bart., K.B. MP
Gender:
Male
Birth:
1635
Death:
1695 (60)
Hartwell, Northamptonshire, England
Immediate Family:
Son of Thomas Lee, of Hartwell and Elizabeth Ingoldsby
Husband of Anne Lee
Father of Elizabeth Beke; Jane Lee and Sir Thomas Lee, 2nd Baronet
Half brother of Jane Ingoldsby and Richard Ingoldsby
Added by:
Kevin Brees on September 10, 2008
Managed by:
Jimmy Dale Rosamond and 5 others
Curated by:
Erica Howton
I am now working on a movie script, and Broadway musical about the artistic tribulations of Gutzon Borglum, the creator of Mount Rushmore, and, Stone Mountain. The NAACP claims it is not asking for its removal, just a drastic alterations so as to further end the notion that white folks are superior to black folks. I think this would be defacing and destroying a work of art. What would Gutzon have to say?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum
Well, I am going to raise Borglum from the dead in my movie and musical. I will go into the mind of a fellow artist and sculptor, who happens to be white. Not since Oklahoma, Paint Your Wagon, and, The Birth of Nation, will there be such a monumental music and imagery – that will be BIGGER than Hamilton!
I see the Battle of Swinging Chiselers, men in harnesses dueling each other – high in the…
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