So it turns out that I’m related to President George Washington.
If you look at the family tree below, Pres. Washington is underlined. His great-aunt, Anne Washington married one Francis Wright. The Wright family line wends its way down to Jesse Woodrow Naff, my maternal grandfather.
A genealogy of Pres. Washington. Original available at http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/washington-the-writings-of-george-washington-vol-xiv-1798-1799
You can read about in the book The Washingtons. Volume 9: The Presidential Branch: Six Wright Lines by Justin Glenn. My granddad is on page 443. I guess that makes me and Pres. Washington distant cousins.
Anyway, this all started because I watched the movie Hacksaw Ridge — the story of Desmond Doss, the conscientious objector who won the Medal of Honor for saving 75 men — without even touching a gun.
Doss’s story reminded me of my granddad’s. He was a paratrooper medic who carried a gun but, because of of Brethren beliefs, refused to fire a shot. And he didn’t. For his entire five years of service. Here’s another excerpt from Glenn’s book — my mom is Betty Naff Mitchell.
When I googled Grandfather Naff, one thing led to another and I found out he was in Glenn’s book. Here’s a picture of my granddad.
Small world…
Jesse Woodrow Naff, my maternal grandfather.
