I get these emails from
WikiTree: The Free Family Tree
Wikitree. I have found it useful as a source of reliable documented information, and with volunteers who diligently work to eliminate duplications and errors. They occasionally send out these degrees notes showing how many people-away one is from a well known person. I don’t usually care too much about that, but Simone Biles is amazing. I think she’s Wonder Woman actually.

So click through and Braxton looks the most likely, up from the Snively’s and, really it’s no surprise to find.

“According to the definitive Alonzo Dill biography of Carter Braxton, “Carter Braxton, Virginia Signer: A Conservative in Revolt, Braxton was quite wealthy, despite paying off his brother George’s debts after his death. As he predicted, the Revolution was hard on his business. Braxton aggressively evaded his creditors, moved his assets into his children’s hands, and won in some lawsuits and evaded others. He died with more than 3,000 acres of land and 42 slaves. His widow sued debtors for monies owed to him, some of which was in payment for land sold before Carter’s death.[6]
Braxton County, West Virginia is named in his honor.”There is no direct blood-line. I know there had to be some slave-holders amongst the general ancestral soup. Just a non-surprising, surprising find.
Anyway Simone Biles is (Superlative Expletive!!!) Amazing.#Journal
