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A seven-year-old episode of the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? uploaded to YouTube yesterday explains how rock star Steven Tyler has a New York Freemason in his ancestry.
With Tyler for a name, maybe that shouldn’t surprise, but as daughter Liv, the actress, undertook the genealogy research, she discovered how Steven’s mother’s side of the family included George Washington Elliott.
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Elliott (1838-1918) was at labor in Schuyler Lodge 676 in Schuylerville. He also was a York Rite Mason in Home Chapter and Washington Commandery, as well as an Eastern Star, according to a 1912 locally published book furnished to Tyler by Saratoga County Historian Lauren Roberts. He also was a Civil War veteran of both Gettysburg and Antietam.
“It may have even elevated his status in society that he was a member of the Masons,” Roberts explained.
It also was determined that Elliott had African-American roots, which confirmed an intuition the rock star descendant said he felt about himself.
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The relevant segment of the episode runs less than nine minutes.
