Gallia County, Ohio, found a way to make the vice president of the United States part of a local club – by discovering his great-grandparents’ grave.
Vice President Dick Cheney was allowed to skip the usual formalities when he accepted honorary membership last month (July 2006) in the Ohio Genealogical Society’s Gallia County chapter in southeast Ohio about 90 miles from Columbus. Society members Henny Evans and Mary James did the legwork and invited him to join, sending him photographs of his great-grandparents’ tombstones and information about his great-aunt’s homestead.
This is very interesting information. Some distant Bush family tree branches also lived in Lawrence County (pre Civil War) but before the Cheney presence in the late 1800’s in Gallia. With some Strickland family members purchasing land near old Blackfork maybe there will be more accuracy in the regional history than what has been written the last 3 years. It seems like the current trend of those taking credit being first will last a lot longer though while ommitting the post WWI era when things have been changed to fit those that helped ruin it at Blackfork and the Cambria Products era.
Dick is my father’s second cousin, our grandfathers being brothers. I found out today that “David Dickey” (brother of Grover) died in Kalama, Wa. Anybody know where he is buried? I did not know that. My grandfather is also buried in Kalama.