By William Anderson LaBach
• Obama and I are descendants of Mareen Duval (?-1694) of Maryland and his wife. This ancestry has received publicity already. See http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/familytree/545456,BSX-News-wotreej09.article . There is also a Mareen Duval Society. See http://www.duvallsociety.org/ . Among descendants of Mareen Duval are Justice Gabriel Duval (1752-1844) of the United States Supreme Court, Harry S. Truman, Wallis Warfield Simpson (the Duchess of Windsor), and actor Robert Duval. My descent from Mareen is as follows: Mareen Duval and wife Susannah, Susannah Duval (ca 1671-ca 1738) who married Robert Tyler (ca 1676- after 1710), Elizabeth Tyler (1701-after1744) who married Samuel Pottenger (1693-after 1742), Susannah Pottenger (1719-1779) who married Richard Simmons (1706-1784), Samuel Simmons (ca 1742-1781) who married Verlinda Willett (1746-ca 1820 Bullitt Co., KY), Susanna Simmons (1763-ca1803) who married Josiah Phelps (1755-1835 Madison Co., KY), Susanna Phelps (1785-1843) who married William Chenault (1773-1834), Waller Chenault (1803-1861) who married Tillitha Harris (1818-1893), Christopher David Chenault (1846-1925) who married Sarah Gibson Humphreys (1858-1930), Lucy Alexander Humphreys Chenault (1897-1975) who married Matthew William Anderson (1895-1967), Mary Webster Anderson (1920-1998) who married James Parker LaBach (1918-2004), William Anderson LaBach (1938- ) who married Karen Eugenia Mitchell (1950- ). Obama's descent is given in the genealogy of Rietwiesner at http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html .
This will take some absorbing, but this Samuel Pottenger may be the father of the Samuel Pottenger who killed his young slave Nate for impudence. One blow with his cane did Nate in. The 1693-after 1742 Samuel Pottenger is the brother of my grandmother Sarah Pottenger Isaac. The great consolation for being a Warfield is that we can pass over Wallis and focus on Paul Tibbits.
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