Thread by @lizsfg

900 x 45% gave me to 405 from 12.21.17, which is about A. Cooper. Since I've already had interest in his family, I decided to do some digging.

Cue dropped a flag located in Gastonia, NC with a link to The Last of The Mahicans. I hadn't previously made the connection, but the book was written by James Cooper. The movie was filmed at Chimney Rock Park, between Gastonia & Baltimore Estate.

https://twitter.com/lizsfg/status/1323516028639498242?s=20

We already know Cooper's mom was a Vanderbilt, but I wanted to see if I could make any Red Cross/Red Shoe connections with this dig👇

https://twitter.com/lizsfg/status/1339816716281540611?s=20

Edith Stuyvesant (Dresser) Vanderbilt, wife of George Vanderbilt, established a domestic school that trained young black woman how to do domestic work. She called it a school of "Science"🚩

She was an advocate for woman's rights and became the first female president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society and she devoted her free time to volunteering for the Red Cross🚩🚩

biltmore.com/blog/tag/red-c…

💥I'll be darned if there's not a Statue of Diana in the front yard too.

Edith was one of four sisters. Her sister, Natalie, was married to a Brown (Brown University). Basically, there's a marriage connection between Dresser, Vanderbilt, Sherman & Brown families that I suck at explaining.

Stratford Connecticut lineage falls into two distinct and historical categories:
- primitive planters & landed proprietors
🤔More Fertile Crescent connections?
Samuel Sherman is one of the town's founders and is a forefather of General William T Sherman.

Samuel Sherman is Bernard 'Barry' Charles Sherman's grandfather.
You know, Barry and Honey Sherman. The 187👀
Apparently, Barry's Aunt is was Epstein too.

I realize I suck at the presenting family genealogy so here's the sauce.
books.google.com/books?id=K5JEA…

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