Martha Sharp Crawford aka Sunny Von Bulow

This is the kind of family connection that is fun and makes me laugh.  Kent is related to Sunny Von Bulow, she is the grand niece of the wife of the brother in law of his grand aunt.

Here's how:

Kent's father was Nathan Harrell Moran
Nathan's father was James Henderson Moran III

James' sister was Fannie Lemira Moran

Fannie married James Benjamin Ezzell

James was the half brother of Harrison "Harry" Ezzell

Harry married Annie P. Sharp

Annie's  sister  was Martha E. Sharp

Martha married George Washington Crawford

and their daughter was Martha Sharp"Sunny" Crawford.

Sunny married Prince Alfred Von Auersperg and had two children: Princess Annie-Laurie and Prince Alexander Georg.  She and Prince Alfred divorced.  Sunny married Claus Von Bulow in 1966. A year later their daughter Cosima was born. Sunny died under suspicious circumstances in 2008.

That's it in a nutshell.  I'll be writing more about this interesting family connection at a later date.

Giving Back

I haven't posted anything in awhile because I've been spending time documenting a local African American Cemetery, Morning Grove Missionary Baptist Cemetery in Cordova Tennessee.  As much as I enjoy researching our family sometimes it can be more gratifying researching and documenting the families of others.  I actually do that quite a bit and then enter the information on Findagrave or blog about it on my Graveyard Rabbit blog.  It's my small way of giving back and hopefully, making a contribution to the genealogy community at large.