Is a descendant through Cobb and Smith of the Payne (descendants of a first and a third cousins of Jane Seymour), Warner (second cousin many times removed of George Washington and
Tom Cruise), Dandridge (first cousin many times removed of Martha Dandridge, wife of George Washington and grandmother-in-law of Robert Edward Lee), Spotswood and West families of Virginia, in turn descended many times from John of Gaunt (a great-great-grandfather of Catherine of Aragon), twice from Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn and first cousin of Catherine Howard, and twice from a sister and a brother of Henry VIII's maternal grandmother.