It's gruesome that someone so handsome should care

[sovay]

As a consolation for fighting with our insurance, I bought a ridiculous and irresistible object off the internet, and it arrived just in time to feel like a present for the success of spatch's impromptu—and insurance-covered—visit to urgent care this afternoon.





I do not know the origin of this double-sided clipping; I assume some kind of Hollywood trade paper, but could not actually ask the seller. Anyone who recognizes the format, feel free to chime in. I have a slight instinctive skepticism of the claim of descent from Adams—it sounds like just the studio legend for a New Englander—but then again spatch is descended from Hannibal Hamlin, so these things happen. According to the biography of Blondell which he has been occasionally reading to me, as her parents were vaudevillians, her first cradle really was a prop trunk.

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[sovay]

because one of their great-great etc who came to the US was a John. Also, they had an unrelated John Quincy.

That's hilarious and feels like history cheating.

So it seems to be a totally different Adams family, which is fun since they're both ginormous. (But he *was* related to President Ford!

Also funny! How did you find it out?

Which would only have been useful to publicists if they were also time travelers.)

I admire this sentence.

[julian]

"That's hilarious and feels like history cheating."

Quite! (Though Corey's JQA was born in 1820, so possibly named for the more famous version.)

"Also funny! How did you find it out?"

Um. Followed links in the wikitree, so it's not verified by other sources or anything, but the wikitree is backed up by the Guaranteed Obsessiveness of family genealogists, so I'm mostly content.

[sovay]

Followed links in the wikitree, so it's not verified by other sources or anything, but the wikitree is backed up by the Guaranteed Obsessiveness of family genealogists, so I'm mostly content.

That counts! Unlike my uncle, I do not spend a lot of time pursuing family research, so I don't know very much about what resources are available beyond, like, the census and newspapers.

[edit] . . . he's also related to spatch. Not closely on account of all the drift since the eighteenth century, but I'm going to call it funnier than being related to Gerald Ford.

The grandmother of Corey's John Quincy Adams was an Elizabeth Noyes from Newbury, then of the Masssachusetts Bay Colony. If I'm reading this metric ton of prolific and repetitiously named Puritans right, she's four generations down from William Noyes, whose sons James and Nicholas were the founders of Newbury. spatch is supposed to be descended from Nicholas who leapt ashore in 1634. Elizabeth definitely is.

I have one ancestral line that goes back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 and cursory research at the time when it came to light indicated that spatch and I were not related and if that's still true, it's starting to feel like a miracle.