William Young Conn Humes

Looks like he was the youngest CSA general to survive the war.

eta: I only knew about Ramseur because of the unusual name, and because he was an alumnus of the college where my Dad (the Civil War buff) used to teach.

Today was utterly and totally frantic and sucky, but soon all your SA will belong to me. YAY

Looks like he was the youngest CSA general to survive the war.

Ah, that was it! Well, I was close.

Huh. Our ancestors may have crossed paths, as the Venters were originally Dutch mercenaries hired by Bonny Prince Charlie to aid in his war.

Ooh, and mine too, since my great-great and so on was Charlie's personal physician. Then he was a general in the Revolutionary Army.

I've never looked into the DAR, for a host of reasons, but I'm pretty sure it's only one descendant per revolutionary, so I'm sure some old lady in New Jersey has my spot.

Aimee, you could always go for the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire like my maternal gramma.

Or she could just accept that she's a Buffista, which is much cooler anyway.

ION, I am having a serious boggling because around this time EXACTLY ONE WEEK AGO I was getting ready to head out for Sushi with Buffistas. And in only 3 hours from now it'll have been a week since the Friday night HS debauchery kicked off.

A WHOLE FRIKKIN' WEEK, PEOPLE!

I am a-boggled by how time passes.

Pete, I'll see your boggle and raise you popped eyes in disbelief. I feel like I just got home yesterday and even that is too damn long since I actually kissed, er....saw, a Buffista.

I've got a great-something or other, Benjamin Muzzy, who was born in the US in 1789, but I believe the family is stumped with him for now. Otherwise, I'd rather lay claim to being the head of the Campbells here in the US since the Duke of Argyll is something like my 5th or 6th cousin. We're all royalty! So, the Empress is aptly named.

In the spirit of F2F Kristin and I are seriously talking abut heading towards Seattle for the fourth of July.

You're welcome to come, but there are better times for maximum Buffista-time. That is, at our party we tend to have 50+ people, so our attention is divided among them. Also, we lose days to clean-up.

Of course, it being a Tuesday, it could be the climax to a long weekend, but we will still have at least a day when we can't do anything with you guys due to party prep.

But the reason why Aimee should look into the DAR is scholarship possibilities for the young Princess.

At least I think there are . . . . I believe there are for Mayflower descendants.

Gotcha on the party prep. We've just been considering it. I think it would be in addition to a proper visit to Seattle if we did it.