Dancing with the Stars and Cloris Leachman

I had always heard that Cloris Leachman was somehow my distant cousin. I thought I would see if I could confirm this without spending too much time on it. A quick look at wikipedia showed that she was born in Des Moines, Iowa to Cloris Wallace and Berkley "Buck" Leachman. (And that she was Miss Chicago in 1946 and her website is http://www.cloris.com/.)

Then family trees on Rootsweb showed Berkley's father as Robert Parker Leachman and his father as William Leachman. This same info was found on the Census records. I then got out my Leachman genealogy compiled by the unknown cousin supposedly trying to get into the DAR.





There is William Leachman, brother of my gg grandfather, Leonard Leachman. William and Leonard are the sons of Leonard Leachman and Sarah Sanford.

I had previously posted the obit for William's wife, Sarah.
http://youlookirish.blogspot.com/2008/03/sarah-parker-leachman.html

If I was really clever I could tell you exactly how Cloris and I are related, what cousin how many times removed. But I do know her gg grandfather and my gg grandfather were brothers.