Kathryn Ann Reeves will be 19 this Friday, February 2, having been born in 1988. She is the daughter of movie actor Clinton Eastwood and Jacelyn Reeves.  Both Kathryn and her brother Scott took the surname of Reeves, which seems to be a pattern in Hollywood.  I have not found a record of marriage for the issue of these two children.

Clinton Eastwood is my eighth cousin, once removed. This is a connection down through the Kellogg, Steele and Bradford family lines on my father's side of the family. Clinton is the 9th great grandson of Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford. He is a ninth cousin to movie actor Christopher Reeve (Superman).

Clint was born the same year the same year as when William Howard Taft, the 27th president and a former chief justice of the United States, died in Washington, D.C., at age 72 on March 8, 1930. Taft was the father-in-law of Eleanor Kellogg Chase Taft, my sixth cousin, once removed. Clint is the seventh cousin, twice removed to Eleanor.

Clint was born the same month that Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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