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Topic:	Sorry Charles it isn't George P. Bush (1 of 2), Original message read 327 times at Burke's Peerage and Gentry before edit updates added.
Conf:	Atavus feedback
From:	Avon Edward Foote chotank@aol.com
Date:	Thursday, November 07, 2002 09:50 AM

EDITED UPDATE, 29 January 2007: George Mead Walker, cousin of father/son Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush (41st) & George Walker Bush (43rd), remembers personal favors he received in 1980s in Iuka, Mississippi from James Bishop, Tishomingo County official. Bishop grew up in Burnsville and is longtime friend of Foote's family and student of Lila Frances Broughton Foote during her first teaching employment at Burnsville after attending college in Columbus, Mississippi. Walker also expresses fond recollections of his Aunt Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President Bush (41st) and grandmother of President Bush (43rd). Walker met his Mississippi wife in the 1970s at the University of North Alabama while serving as US Army Recruiter. Bobby King, son-in-law of Lila Frances, remembers tennis games that he played against Walker at the Iuka Country Club in 1982. But Chotank can find no record of who won the face-off.

EDITED UPDATE, 16 February 2004: Neighborhood Gossip -- George Mead Walker, cousin of two Presidents, spent Thanksgiving 2003 on Shirley Drive just talking art with Florence, Alabama friends. He has invited the same Shirley Drive artist friends to Walker's Point, Maine for a breezy fall sketching and drawing confab. Do you suppose any other Georges will be there?

I am reading the new November/December issue of ATAVUS with great admiration for the work of the on-line editorial staff of Burke's Peerage and Gentry. But I must correct one error.
The first President George Bush (1989 to 1993) was George Herbert Walker Bush not George P. Bush (see "Editorial -- Dynasty" by Charles Mosley). When my wife and I moved to Florence, Alabama from Georgia in 1980, George Walker -- the President's first cousin -- lived on Shirley Drive. The next year he moved to Iuka, Mississippi where my father and mother -- Avon R. Foote and Lila Broughton Foote -- lived (still do). He joined the Iuka Country Club but was considered pretty ordinary by most all the local residents.

Iuka may take on new significance for the reader if it is remembered that the first Bush administration originally announced plans to put men on Mars. In the early 1990s, NASA designed facilities for massive Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant structures at Iuka to build a new Mars-mission, rocket booster. But, the Mars program was cancelled in 1997.

You will find a letter to George Walker from George Herbert Walker Bush on page 311 in All the Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings, the 1999 book of letters and diary entries that was published both in the US and UK by Scribners. The President writes his cousin in Iuka to comment on the attempted assassination of President Reagan while Bush was Vice President, and Bush adds some personal observations including a greeting to Connie Hudson Walker, his cousin's wife from Iuka.

George P. Bush is the President George W. Bush's nephew, son of his brother Jeb. George P. Bush is named for Prescott Sheldon Bush, his great-grandfather born 1895 in Columbus, Ohio.

Avon Edward Foote, chotank@aol.com
222 Shirley Drive, Florence, AL US 35633
Author of CHOTANKERS: A Family History (1982)
[Foote Family History in Windsor Public Library, Berkshire,
40 US Libraries and for purchase at www.chotank.com]
256-767-5159

Topic: Sorry Charles it isn't George P. Bush (2 of 2)

Topic:	Sorry Charles it isn't George P. Bush (2 of 2), Read 286 times
Conf:	Atavus feedback
From:	Anne Christie achristie@burkes-landed-gentry.com
Date:	Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:50 AM

Hello Avon

Thank you for pointing out this error. Editor, Charles Mosley agrees it was a slip on his part and a correction will be made.

The article heralds the publication online of 'American Presidential Families' on November 28th 2002. I hope you will enjoy these articles and family trees too.

Comments on this new content or suggestions on what readers would like to see in 2003 are always welcome.

Regards
Anne

Anne Christie
Burke's Peerage & Gentry.

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The original letter has been edited in November 2005 to document that
George Mead Walker, cousin of two Bush Presidents, has lived in
Florence, located northwest Alabama, and more recently at Iuka, in
northeast Mississippi.

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