Family Relationship of

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

American “Fireside” Poet

16th cousin to

General Robert E. Lee

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

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Sir John Howard

Alice de Bois

Joan Howard

Sir Peter de Brewes

Sir Robert Howard

Margaret de Scales

Beatrice Brewes

Sir Hugh Shirley

Sir John Howard

Alice Tendring

Sir Ralph Shirley

Joan Basset

Sir Robert Howard

Beatrice Shirley

Katherine Howard

Isabel Brome

Catherine Neville

Alice Denton

William Tanfield

Edward Purefoy

Frances Tanfield

Mary Purefoy

Anne Tanfield

Susanna Thorne

Elizabeth Vincent

Richard Lane

Gov. Thomas Dudley

Dorothy York

Dorothy Lane

William Randolph

Anne Dudley

Gov. Simon Bradstreet

Richard Randolph

Elizabeth Ryland

Samuel Bradstreet

Mercy Tyng

Col. William Randolph

Mary Isham

Mercy Bradstreet

Dr. James Oliver

Elizabeth Randolph

Sarah Oliver

Mary Bland

Oliver Wendell

Col. Henry Lee

Sarah Wendell

Maj. Gen. Henry Lee

Anne Hill Carter

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

American “Fireside” Poet

General Robert E. Lee

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War