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Every family has their black sheep or three.
Here's one:

Virginia
The family had been in America for 124 years by the time Henry Sr. was born. He was Emmet's great grandfather.
Henry moved from Culpepper County Virginia to what is now Shenandoah County. (Originally part of Frederick County then Virginia became Dunmore County then finally Shenandoah County).
It is believed he met and married his first wife, Margaret around 1756. They had eight children. Our lineage comes through Henry Sr. and his second wife, Ann Catherine Keller.

Henry Sr. and Ann Catherine married in 1779, a time of Post Revolutionary War. They lived on a plantation near New Market, Frederick County, Virginia. Shenandoah County to what is now Summers Creek, Summers County, WV.
Their youngest son Henry Jr. with Susanna Swinney is our direct line and his story would take a full page. He was notorious for being a bigamist in addition to having a child by a black slave.