Edith Bolling Wilson, through many generations, is a direct descendant of the famous American Indian, Pocahontas. Other famous people such as Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Martha Washington, and Letitia Tyler can be linked to Mrs. Wilson.
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The genealogical path from Pocahontas

1. Pocahontas and John Rolfe — son, Thomas Rolfe
2. Thomas Rolfe and Jane Poythress -- daughter, Jane Rolfe
3. Jane Rolfe and Robert Bolling -- son, John Bolling
4. John Bolling and Mary Kennon -- son, John Bolling Jr.
5. John Bolling Jr. and Elizabeth Blair -- son, John Bolling III
6. John Bolling III and Mary Jefferson -- son, Archibald Bolling
7. (Mary Jefferson was sister of Thomas Jefferson)
8. Archibald Bolling and Catherine Payne -- son, Archibald Bolling Jr.
9. Archibald Bolling Jr. and Anne Wiggington -- son, William Holcombe Bolling
10. William Holcombe Bolling and Sallie Spiers White -- daughter, Edith Bolling

The genealogical link to Martha Washington (includes Robert E. Lee)

1. Martha Dandridge’s (Washington) first husband -- Daniel Parke Custis
2. Martha Dandridge and Daniel Parke Custis-- son, John Parke Custis
3. John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert -- son, George Washington Parke Custis
4. George Washington Parke Custis and Mary Lee Fitzhugh -- daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis
5. Mary Anna Randolph Custis and Robert E. Lee -- son, William H. Fitzhugh Lee
6. William H. Fitzhugh Lee married Mary Tabb Bolling, descendant of Colonel Robert Bolling and Ann Stith, Robert Bolling’s second wife