The Family Connection

I am a direct descendant of several of the principal characters in The Hawthorne Inheritance. John Stephens Dike is my first cousin six times removed. John Dike is my great- great- great- granduncle. Thomas S. Blair and Virginia Dike Blair are my great- great- grandparents. And I am a cousin of the Hawthornes through John Dike’s marriage to Hawthorne’s aunt, Priscilla Manning.