Most Americans are related to someone famous.  In fact over 100 million of us are related to at least one President of the United States. We Ayers who descend from John Ayre, the Immigrant from 1635 (see post of 16 March 2011), can claim at least two that I know about.  Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President, had Ayers connections on his mother’s side reaching back to Robert Ayer, son of John Ayre.  William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President, has Ayers connections on his father’s side through his grandmother, who descended from Nathaniel Ayers of Pittsylvania County, VA like us.  Also of interest, Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the “Little House on the Prairie” book series was a descendant of Thomas Ayer, son of John Ayre, the Immigrant.