Get ready for a MAJOR history lesson

Okay, this is going to seem like the Bible when it lists who begat who for 56 verses, but bear with me.

Glen Chappell’s mother was Ethel Mae Maxfield Chappell (born 1879 Utah)
Her mother was Helen Alcy Tanner Maxfield (born 1839 Illinois)
Her father was Nathan Tanner (born 1815 New York)
His father was John Tanner (born 1778 Rhode Island)
His mother was Thankful Tefft Tanner (born 1757 Rhode Island)
Her father was William Tefft (born 1732 Rhode Island)
His mother was Esther Brownell Tefft (born 1706 Rhode Island)
Her mother was Esther Taber Brownwell (born 1680 Massachusetts)
Her mother was Mary Cooke Taber (born 1651 Massachusetts??)
Her father was John Cooke (born 1607 Holland) and her mother was Sarah Warren Cooke (born 1614 England). They were married on March 28th 1634 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
John’s father was Francis Cooke (born 1583, England) and Sarah’s father was Richard Warren (born 1578 England)

Francis Cooke, his oldest son John, and Richard Warren were 3 of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower that landed in the Cape Cod area in 1620. Francis Cooke and Richard Warren are my 11-great grandfathers. I suppose this Thanksgiving will have a little more meaning to me since I know my great great great great great great great great great great grandfather John Cooke was a 14 year old boy at The First Thanksgiving in 1621.

Cross section of the Mayflower

Passengers lived on the gun deck.

Francis Cooke
Birth: About 1583, probably in England.
Marriage:
Hester le Mahieu, 20 July 1603, Leiden.
Death: 7 April 1663, Plymouth.
Children: John, unnamed child buried in Leiden, Jane, Elizabeth, Jacob, Hester, and Mary.

Biographical Summary
Francis Cooke was born about 1583. His origins have not been discovered, but it is probable he was born in England, perhaps from the Canterbury or Norwich areas. He married Hester le Mahieu on 20 July 1603 in Leiden, Holland; she was a French Walloon whose parents had initially fled to Canterbury, England; she left for Leiden sometime before 1603. Francis Cooke and Hester le Mahieu's marriage occurred in Leiden, Holland six years before the Pilgrim church made its move there, so he was living there long before their arrival and must have met up with and joined them afterwards. His wife Hester was a French Walloon. What brought Francis to Holland in the first place is unknown: religious persecution of Protestants in England did not really begin until after King James took power in 1604. In 1606, the Cookes left Leiden and went to Norwich, Norfolk for a time (for what reason is not known), but returned to have their first son, John, baptized at the French church in Leiden, sometime between January and March, 1607. In Holland, Cooke took up the profession of a woolcomber.
Francis, and his oldest son John, came on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1620. He left behind his wife Hester and his other children Jane, Jacob, Elizabeth and Hester. After the Colony was founded and better established, he sent for his wife and children, and they came to Plymouth in 1623 on the ship Anne.
Francis lived out his life in Plymouth. Although he kept a fairly low profile, he was on a number of minor committees such as the committee to lay out the highways, and received some minor appointments by the Court to survey or lay out land. He was a juror on a number of occasions, and was on the coroner's jury that examined the body of Martha Bishop, the 4-year old daughter who was murdered by her mother Alice. He received some modest land grants at various times throughout his life. He lived to be about 80 years old, dying in 1663; his wife Hester survived him by at least three years and perhaps longer.

Richard Warren
Born: Probably in Hertford, England.
Marriage:
Elizabeth Walker, 14 April 1610, Great Amwell, Hertford, England, daughter of Augustine Walker.
Death: 1628, Plymouth.
Children: Mary, Ann, Sarah, Elizabeth, Abigail, Nathaniel, and Joseph.

Biographical Information
Richard Warren's English origins and ancestry have been the subject of much speculation, and countless different ancestries have been published for him, without a shred of evidence to support them. Luckily in December 2002, Edward Davies discovered the missing piece of the puzzle. Researchers had long known of the marriage of Richard Warren to Elizabeth Walker on 14 April 1610 at Great Amwell, Hertford. Since we know the Mayflower passenger had a wife named Elizabeth, and a first child born about 1610, this was a promising record. But no children were found for this couple in the parish registers, and no further evidence beyond the names and timing, until the will of Augustine Walker was discovered. In the will of Augustine Walker, dated April 1613, he mentions "my daughter Elizabeth Warren wife of Richard Warren", and "her three children Mary, Ann and Sarah." We know that the Mayflower passenger's first three children were named Mary, Ann, and Sarah (in that birth order).
Very little is known about Richard Warren's life in America. He came alone on the Mayflower in 1620, leaving behind his wife and five daughters. They came to him on the ship Anne in 1623, and Richard and Elizabeth subsequently had sons Nathaniel and Joseph at Plymouth. He received his acres in the Division of Land in 1623, and his family shared in the 1627 Division of Cattle. But he died a year later in 1628, the only record of his death being found in Nathaniel Morton's 1669 book New England's Memorial, in which he writes: "This year [1628] died Mr. Richard Warren, who was an useful instrument and during his life bare a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plymouth."
All of Richard Warren's children survived to adulthood, married, and had large families: making Richard Warren one of the most common Mayflower passengers to be descended from. Richard Warren's descendants include such notables as Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Alan B. Shepard, Jr. the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the moon. And don't forget Wade Chappell.

This information, and a whole bunch more is found at http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/ It was pretty interesting reading!