Ed Mauldin III
Honor Code SignatorySigned 11 Aug 2020 | 712 contributions | 21 thank-yous | 2,255 connections
Signed 11 Aug 2020 | 712 contributions | 21 thank-yous | 2,255 connections
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Mr Ed E. Mauldin III
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Son of Lemuel Edward Mauldin Jr
and Jessie Rae Maxey
Brother of
Joe Mauldin
Descendants 
Father of
[private daughter (1970s - unknown)] and [private daughter (1970s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Oct 2014
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Biography
Huguenot Descendant (Edward Maxey, Manakintown, Virginia)
Member of Sons of American Revolution (Prescott Bush, Pvt 'SC')
Eagle Scout
Lemuel Edward Mauldin III, son of Lemuel Edward Mauldin Jr and Jessie Rae Maxey, had a fantastic 42 yr career at NASA, beginning just out of High School - about 2 weeks before John Glenn’s first launch. He was a product of the Cold War, when High School math and science teachers encouraged students to do well and help the USA catch-up with the Soviets. Beginning as a college Co-op Student, becoming an electrical engineer and then an optical engineer, and finally becoming a Project Manager, he worked on some incredibly challenging and exciting missions in Earth Science (ozone hole and climate change), Planetary Science (Mars and Venus missions), Astronomy (Deep Space), and Astrobiology. For a short time just before retirement, he was the Chief Engineer on the Kepler Project, the mission that discovered new planets that can support life. He helped build three satellites (Nimbus 7, ERBS and UARS) that provided critical data to Paul Crutzen, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for explaining the dynamics of how the ozone hole is formed. But perhaps his most exciting and challenging project was managing a joint project with the Russian Space Agency, starting just after the Communist Regime ended, to build a meteorology satellite (Meteor 3M) that launched from Kazakhstan on a Ukrainian Rocket (Zenit) in 2001. Ed is a proud Eagle Scout and graduate of Mississippi State University, University of Rochester, and College of William and Mary. He is still doing consulting for NASA, but mainly enjoying being retired. His main hobbies are skiing, golf, genealogy research, and woodcarving.
6 Generations of Surnames
My Surnames
- Click on Surname to view EKA - Earliest Known Ancestor
- Allen, Autry
- Bush
- Carter
- Dacus
- Folsom
- Goss
- Herrington (Harrington) , Hinds , Huddleston
- Jones
- Kilgore
- Mauldin, Maxey , McClendon , Moore , Morris
- Nation
- Pilgrim, Pridgen , Prine
- Sansom, Schoppert , Scott , Scott , Sumrall , Swaim
- Terrell (Tyrrell, Tyrell, deTirel, DeTirel, de Tirel, de Triel) , Thomas , Tisdale , Tucker , Tucker
- Walters (Waters) , Williams , Woodson
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- Ed's formal name
- full middle name (E.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (2)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (2)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Ed or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Ed or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Ed Mauldin: AncestryDNA Paternal Lineage (discontinued) 25 markers, haplogroup M269 + Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup M269, FTDNA kit #350552
- Walter Smith
:
AncestryDNA Paternal Lineage (discontinued) +
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 838 markers, haplogroup R-CTS2509, FTDNA kit #614858
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100.00%
100.00%
Ed Mauldin:
23andMe
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~0.78%
Sharon (Coyle) Ballard :
23andMe, GEDmatch M345094 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A399297 [compare], Ancestry member chachasherry
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Featured National Park champion connections: Ed is 17 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 22 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 19 degrees from George Catlin, 13 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 20 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 17 degrees from George Grinnell, 25 degrees from Anton Kröller, 18 degrees from Stephen Mather, 24 degrees from Kara McKean, 16 degrees from John Muir, 19 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 24 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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My name is Lemuel Edward Mauldin, III. I am a Smith Ancestor - Smith One Name Project Group GRP-R-269-8, Kit 350552 (ancestor Christopher Smith 1591). My WikiTree page is Mauldin-688.
I believe that Christopher Smith (1591-3) is our common ancestor. I have followed your research, looking for documentation for Christopher’s father.
I found out that my last name should be Smith after taking the 111 marker DNA test through FTDNA. I am descended from Rucker Mauldin (1760-1846) whose mother was unmarried so gave him her last name. Rucker’s father was Elizabeth’s sister’s husband, Christopher Smith (1730-1804).
I am a graduate of William & Mary, but didn’t know when I was a student that Christopher Smith (1630-1716) was a professor and head of the Indian School there. I lived in Williamsburg, Virginia for 37 years near where our ancestors lived. I am a retired NASA engineer and live in Reno, Nevada.
Would like to know more about you and your family. Come see me in Reno and stay in touch,
Ed Mauldin
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edited by Mary Richardson
this profile needs a clean-up to clear error 811. e.g. two Biography and two Sources sections. Please take a look when you get a chance and consolidate down to one each. Thank you, Teresa Downey (Data Doctor/Arborist)
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