Descendants Of Famous Historical Figures

What’s it like to be related to someone who altered history? Let's find out as we do a bit of genealogy and look at the descendants of some famous historical figures and discover how they feel about their renowned relatives.

Davy Crockett was much more than some guy who died at the Alamo. He was also a scout and soldier who fought in the War of 1812, and he was once a congressman from Tennessee in the House of Representatives. After he lost his seat in the House, he joined the Texas Revolution, but he was famously killed at the Alamo when the fort was besieged by Mexican soldiers in 1836, although some accounts say that he was taken prisoner and executed.

Either way, Crockett has been revered by Americans as a great frontiersman, though his descendants hate it when you call him "Davy." The modern-day Crocketts blame the 1950s Disney movies and TV show for popularizing that nickname, as they claim that he never actually called himself that in real life. They also blame the shows and movies for plopping a coonskin cap on his head, although eyewitness accounts say the man actually did wear one.

Either way, at family reunions, Crockett's descendants, including his great-great-great-great-granddaughter Joy Bland, respectfully ask attendees to leave the caps at home and refer to their ancestor as "David," Other descendants have followed in Crockett's military footsteps, including Master Sergeant David Crockett, who serves in the U.S. Air National Guard.

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Davy Crockett | 0:13
Charles Darwin | 1:20
Albert Einstein | 2:43
Ernest Hemingway | 3:55
Jesse James | 5:20
Thomas Jefferson | 6:35
Vincent Van Gogh | 8:02
Pocahontas | 9:07
Henry Ford | 10:18
Al Capone | 11:09

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