QotD: Family History

What do you find interesting or unique about your family history?

• One of my great grandfathers immigrated to the U.S. from Denmark as ian infant on  ship which ended up sinking.  A passing cattle ship threw all the cattle overboard so they could pick up the passengers from the sinking ship.
  

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• The above great grandfather and another great grandfather from Denmark settled in the same town in MN before moving to MT where they homesteaded near each other.  They were both 100% Danish so I am 50% Danish.
• My paternal grandfather died before I was born so I never got to know him.  He began as a teacher on an Indian reservation and then became a rancher.  He started the ranch my dad runs today.  At the age of 54, my grandfather was flying his plane to check on things at the ranch and my Big Grandma was with him.  He had a heart attack and my grandma had to land the plane based on watching him over the years.  She didn't actually know how to fly.  She was a very courageous woman!  Here's an old photo of my parents with the plane.
  

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  My dad had it refurbished and still flies it out at the ranch.
  

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• My great uncle died on a ship during WWII from an infected tooth.  He was buried at sea.
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  My maternal great grandfather was a gymnast and would still walk on his hands to the barn into his 50's.
• My paternal grandparents got a lot of neat Indian artifacts from teaching on the reservation.  Here's me modeling some of them.
  

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• My mom was 16 and my father 18 when they married.
• The name Ray or Raymond is prominent on my side of the family and my husband's.  On my side, there's my great uncle pictured above, my brother, my uncle's middle name, and my son's middle name.  On Ray's side, there was him and his paternal grandfather.
• I have an aunt whose into genealogy and has done extensive research on my little grandma's side of the family.  Its fun reading all the information she finds.
• My dad was born on an Indian reservation.