Chris Marley, a great-nephew of Bob's father, has served as a kind of family historian over the years.

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This noble cause was enough to attract to the board of directors the likes of Charles Mathias, the former senator from Maryland, and Michael Nobel, a great-grand-nephew of Alfred.

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This noble cause was enough to attract to the board of directors the likes of Charles Mathias , the former senator from Maryland, and Michael Nobel , great-grand-nephew of Alfred.

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She has a great nephew who is a first-grader that attends the school and was one room away from the shooting.

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However, it was his nephew, Sir Robert Jones - Evan's great-great-grandson - who would demonstrate the true potential of the Thomas splint - using it on the Western Front, to reduce fracture deaths from 80% in 1916, to just 8% by the end of World War I.

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