Connection Combat: Zsa Zsa Gabor vs. Brigham Young

Question

Following this week's "Spouse Collector" connection theme, our Connection Combat game this week is a marriage mania between modern serial monogamist Zsa Zsa Gabor and religious polygamist Brigham Young. Zsa Zsa had nine husbands over the course of her life, while Brigham Young had 56 wives, many at the same time. 

Here's how the game is played:

1. Check your connection to Zsa Zsa Gabor and Brigham Young (click "Connection to Me" in each profile pull-down menu).
2. Click "Answer this post" below. Choose Team Zsa Zsa or Team Brigham and say how many degrees are in your chosen connection path.
3. Verify each relationship along your connection path with a reliable source [more explanation].
4. Post a Comment below your answer here as soon as you're done.

The players with the three closest verified connections win the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Connection Medals!

There are more ways to win too. You can win by being the first to verify your connection is free of "WikiTree Weevils" ...or the player with the longest verified and Weevil-free path. 

The game runs from January 30-February 6. Winners will be announced on February 7. Every winner gets a badge and will be immortalized in the Connection Combat Hall of Fame. Every player gets a snazzy sticker for their profile.

Do you want to help others? We call this "combat" just for fun. It's really more about collaboration than competition. We help each other in this community. Please participate in your team's Aid Station and stop by when you have questions or problems.

• Team Zsa Zsa Gabor Aid Station
• Team Brigham Young Aid Station

You can also chat live on Discord. See the Connection Combat help page for more information.

Are you in?

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Answer 1

Winner: Molly Reppen (9) for Team Brigham Young

• Gold Hero: Molly Reppen (9) (Young)
• Silver Hero: Emma MacBeath (10) (Young)
• Bronze Hero: Rebecca Haskins (11) (Young)
• Gold Veteran: Laura Franks and Erin Breen(26) (Gabor)
• Silver Veteran: Maggie N, Feargal Hennigan and Melanie McComb (24) (Gabor)
• Bronze Veteran: Kevin Smith (21)(Gabor)
• Scout: David Carlson (14)(Young)
• Medics: Barry Wood and Erin Breen
• Double Agent: N/A
• Peacemaker: N/A
• International Legionnarie: N/A

Answer 2

Team Brigham for me! Just 14 degrees and only 2 marriages!

Comments

Brigham Young is my th cousin x removed 14 degrees from me

Answer 3

Team Brigham Young for me. 14 degrees vs 22 degrees to Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Comments

0. Brigham Young-93√
1. Margaret Pierce-22 his wife√
2. Robert Pierce-23 her father√
3. Hetty Pierce-3726 his sister√
4. Lemuel Mallory-102 her husband√
5. Huldah Mallory-571 his sister√
6. Anne Seaman-3051 her daughter√
7. Archelaus Doran-2278 her husband√
8. Alexander Doran-1047 his brother√
9. Ruth Silverthorn-710 his wife√
10. James Silverthorn-658 her brother√
11. Ben Silverthorn-660 his son√
12. Cliff Silverthorn-654 his son√
13 private his daughter√
14 David Carlson-1933 her son√

Everything seems to be complete!

Answer 4

Team Zsa Zsa 21 degrees.  completed

Answer 5

I already know my connection to Brigham Young (15 degrees) is weevil-free because they're all profiles I've verified in previous Connection Combats! So I'm Team Zsa Zsa this time (22 degrees), and there's already a problem in there that might have to go to the Aid Station. I'm curious to see where the verified trail ends up.

Comments

Got a verified and weevil-free path between me and Zsa Zsa in 26 steps! 

0. Zsa Zsa Gábor→
1. Conrad Hilton (her husband)→
2. Mary Barron (his wife)→
3. Mamie Mulligan (her mother)→
4. Stowers Mulligan (her brother)→
5. [private person] →
6. Charles Hamilton Clark (their husband)→
7. Embert Clark (his father)→
8. James Clark (his brother)→
9. Eunice Boswell (his wife)→
10. Katherine Shouse (her mother)→
11. James Shouse (her father)→
12. Henry Shouse (his father)→
13. Malinda Shouse (his sister)→
14. Lucy Roper (her daughter)→
15. George McGehee (her son)→
16. Mabel Lanier (his wife)→
17. Norman Devendorf (her husband)→
18. Genevieve Devendorf (his sister)→
19. Reid Putnam (her husband)→
20. Emily Putnam (his sister)→
21. William Hayden (her son)→
22. Lily Myers (his wife)→
23. Eleanor Myers (her sister)→
24. Private →
25. Private →
26. Erin Breen
     

Answer 6

Team Brigham Young for me!

Comments

0. Brigham Young ✔
1. his wife, Phebe Morton ✔
2. her son, Truman Angell ✔
3. his daughter, Sarah Angell ✔
4. her son, Race Johnson ✔
5. his brother, William Johnson ✔
6. his wife, Katie Wickham ✔
7. her father, John Wickham ✔
8. his brother, William Wickham ✔
9. his wife, Ann Mepham ✔
10. her brother, William Mepham ✔
11. his daughter, Elizabeth Mepham ✔

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12. her daughter, Hannah Russell ✔
13. her husband, Edward Bull ✔
14. his brother, Edmund Bull ✔
15. his daughter, Yvonne Bull ✔
16. her husband, William Colelough ✔
17. his father, James Colclough ✔
18. his father, William Colclough ✔
19. his brother, John Colclough ✔
20. his son, John Colclough ✔
21. his daughter, Patricia Colclough ✔
22. her daughter, Living ✔
23. her daughter, Living ✔
24. her son, Feargal Hennigan ✔

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Done @ only 24 degrees! All those marriages must have him well-connected.

Answer 7

Team Brigham Young for me. Shortest connections are Brigham Young is 13 degrees while ZsaZsa Gabor is 20 degrees. Brigham Young is my 14th cousin 6 times removed. (or 38 degrees0

Comments

Found a possible problem with my connection to Brigham Young and sent a request to the AidStation.

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Finally found a path that appears correct.

1. Brigham Young
2. Anne Eliza Webb Denning his wife
3. James Leech Dee her husband
4. Esther Ellen Brown Dee his wife
5. James Brown her father
6. Darthula Catherine Shupe Stephens his wife
7. Mary Elizabeth Creager Shupe her mother
8. Dicey Creger her sister
9. Stephen Lambert her husband
10. Johannes F Lambert his father
11. Jacob Lambert his brother
12. Nancy Hall Lambert his wife
13. Catherine Hall Warren her sister
14. Eliza Warren Riley her daughter
15. James Jones her son
16. Hubert Fry his son
17. Me-his daughter

Answer 8

I'm just 13 steps to Brigham Young (he's also a fourth cousins five times removed) and I believe the path is both validated and weevil-free (others might disagree!), but there are some improvements to be made in source quality for some Huntleys and in the biographies of the recent generations of my Smith ancestors. (I have lots of information about them that hasn't been added).

0. Brigham Young
   →
1. Joseph Young (his brother) →
2. Mary Ann Huntley (his wife) →
3. Allen Huntley
   (her father) →
4. Isaiah Huntley
   (his father) →
5. Luman Huntley
   (his brother) →
6. Merriam Beckwith
   (his wife) →
7. Lucretia Beckwith (her sister) →
8. Alven Smith (her son) →

9. David Martyn Smith (his son) →

10. Alven Smith (his son) →
11. John Smith (his son) →
12. David Smith (his son) →
13. Ellen Smith (his daughter)

Answer 9

I am 13 degrees (adopted) and 7 degrees (biological) from Brigham Young. I am 22 degrees (both adopted and biological) from Zsa Zsa Gabor. I am going with Team Gabor.

Answer 10

My connection to Brigham Young is 13° and he's an 8th C 6xR. My connection to Zsa Zsa Gabor is 17° and no blood relation. While Brigham Young is the shorter connection, I know he contains a tangled nightmare between me & him in my 3gm Aletha Sewell, who has been dogging me for weeks since the Hatfield feud. I am going for the longer but still mysterious Zsa Zsa Gabor connection for Team Zsa Zsa Gabor.

An interesting fact, both of these lines goes through my father & I while the Gabor connection goes through my gf, the Brigham Young connection goes through my gm.

Comments

0. Gabor-19 Zsa Zsa Gábor →
1. Hilton-1904 Francesca Hilton (her daughter) →
2. Hilton-1263 Nicky Hilton (her brother) →
3. Taylor-21324 Elizabeth Taylor (his wife) →
4. Tisch-54 Eddie Tisch (her husband) →
5. Reynolds-5838 Debbie Reynolds (his wife) →
6. Raymond Reynolds (her father) →
7. William Reynolds(his father) →
8. James Reynolds (his father) →
9. William Reynolds (his father) →
10. Allen Reynolds (his brother) →
11. Will Reynolds (his son) →
12. Mattie Grounds (his wife) →
13. Price-31355 Bill Price (her son) →
14. Breunell Brunson (his wife) →
15. Delton Brunson (her brother) →
16. Brunson-1755 Ray Brunson (his son) →
17. Brunson-1754-3 Pat Brunson (his daughter)

Here is my weevil-free connection to Zsa Zsa Gabor.

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Wait Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor were both married to the same guy?

Also that's a pretty cool connection to Liz Taylor AND Debbie Reynolds (that means you gotta connection to General Leia :O)

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Yep, Eddie Fisher was married to Debbie Reynolds & had both Carrie & Todd Fisher until Elizabeth caught his eye. Then is was off to the divorce courts & hello new marriage; that is until Richard Burton came along! LOL! He was going for his own spot in the Connection Challenge since he had five wives.

Answer 11

Team Brigham, 12 Degrees.  I am second cousins six times removed from his wife Sarah Malin.

Comments

0 Brigham Young

1 his wife Sarah Malin,

2 her father Elijah Malin

3 His mother Hannah Griffith

4 her sister Rachel Griffith

5 her daughter Rachell Randal

6 her daughter Mary Hatcher

7 her daughter Mary Eichelberger

8 her daughter Margaret Annie Sophia Bressler

9 her son Mike Hunziker

10 his daughter Minnie

11 my mother

12 me!  

All are weevil free.  This was an easy one because my connection to Billy the Kid was through this same line back to Mary Hatcher, so I had cleaned this up last week.

Answer 12

Team Brigham Young is 13 degrees, and Zsa Zsa Gabor is 21 degrees.

 Twenty-five wives of Brigham Young's fifty-five wives are cousins to me.

Thirteen degrees from Brigham Young, Young-93, five branches (1-1-3-3-6). Brigham Young, 14c, 4r, mrca Despenser-24, his wife, Mary Ann (Clark) Young, Clark-40518.

0. Brigham Young, Young-93, 14c, 4r, mrca Despenser-24

1. his wife, Mary Ann (Clark) Young, Clark-40518

2. her husband, William Morrison Powers, Powers-7211, 14c, 2r

3. his sister, Lydia (Powers) Critchfield, Powers-2740, 14c, 2r

4. her son, Corp. Andrew Jackson Critchfield, Critchfield-139, 15c, 1r

5. his wife, Sarah Ann (Polmanteer) Critchfield, Polmanteer-166, 3c, 3r

6. her father, Thomas Polmanteer, Polmanteer-46, 2c, 4r

7. his sister, Rachael Polmanteer, Polmanteer-31, 2c,4r

8. her husband, John Polmanteer, Polmanteer-30, 2nd great-grand-uncle

9. his brother, Charles Gilbert (Palmateer) Polmanteer, Palmateer-67, 2nd great-grandfather

10. his daughter, Sarah Elizabeth (Palmateer) Wheeler, Palmateer-1115, great-grandmother

11. her son, Mr. Leonard Otto Wheeler, Wheeler-18807, grandfather

12. his son, Mr. William Keith Wheeler, Wheeler-18911, father

13. his daughter, Mildred Wheeler, Wheeler-18799, me

Answer 13

I knew Brigham's route would be shorter, so thought I may end up going with Team Gabor if the route to Young was something I'd already done some work on with previous challenges. That was not the case. Though the route to Young is shorter (12 degrees vs. 18), it's through different folks (first time through my dad's family!) from the last challenges, so I'll stick with the shorter route again this week. Team Young it is!

00. Brigham Young

01. Jane Terry

02. Joel Terry

03. Roemma Garner

04. William Garner

05. Luella McQuiston

06. James McQuiston

07. Silas McQuiston

08. Nann McQuiston

09. Ralph Brown

10. Bob Brown

11. Jerry Brown

12. Abby Glann 

Comments

Done. The sources for Brigham and Jane's marriage are primarily scarce, but a couple LDS compilations reference it.

Answer 14

Shortest is to Brigham Young - 13 degrees (also 4th cousin 7 times removed):

0. Brigham Young→√
1. John Young(his father)→√
2. Benjamin Tredway(his brother)→√
3. Hannah Stacy(his wife)→√
4. John Stacy(her father)→√
5. William Stacy(his brother)→√
6. Elizabeth Stacy(his daughter)→√
7. Harriett Newton(her daughter)→√
8. Abner Eveland(her son)→√
9. Addie Eveland(his daughter)→√
10. Mary Ames(her daughter)→√
11. Frank Peasley(her son)→√
12. Frances Peasley(his daughter)→√
13. Azure Robinson(her daughter)√

Answer 15

Team Bringham, and 13 Degrees (also 4th Cousin 6 times removed):

1. Zina Young  - His Daughter
2. Charles Card - Her Husband
3. Cyrus Card - His Father
4. William Card - His Father
5. Elisha Card - His Father
6. Stephen Card - His Brother
7. David Card - His Son
8. Eber Card - His Son
9. Sherman Card - His Son
10.  Mary Card- His Daughter
11. Amy Clark - Her Daughter
12. Father
13. Self

All connections varified

Answer 16

Brigham was the brother of my 4th great-grandfather which makes him 7 degrees from me so it wouldn't be fair for me to join in on his side but if someone who's joined the contest needs some help because they've hit a snag then let me know via WikiTree messaging and I'll give some time on the first day.

Answer 17

I am 13 degrees from Brigham Young. All connections cleaned up and verified.

0. Brigham Young →
1. Abigail Marks (his wife) →
2. Miriam (Unknown) (her mother) →
3. Silas Bailey (her husband) →
4. Amey Stillman (his wife) →
5. Mary Maxson (her mother) →
6. Ephraim Maxson (her brother) →
7. Jesse Maxson (his son) →
8. Charity Maxson (his daughter) →
9. Barbara Weaver (her daughter) →
10. George Roth (her son) →
11. Lillian Carol Roth (his daughter) →
12. Larry Sayers-Howell (her son) →
13. Shonda Sayers-Howell (his daughter) 

Answer 18

Team Brigham Young with 12 degrees and 7th cousins once removed.

Brigham Young (1801-1877) and Alexis (Lovelace) Nelson are both descendants of Margaret Marvin (abt.1560-bef.1633).

Zsa Zsa is 19 degrees and no relationship. I did see her wearing a red velvet dress standing behind a man playing cards at the Hilton in Las Vegas in 1976. 

Answer 19

Brigham Young is 14º and 5th cousins/5xr MRCA Martha (Unknown) Bent while Zsa Zsa 22º and no blood relation.

Answer 20

Team Zsa Zsa for me - it's a long path 25 degrees via her husband Conrad Hilton.