Is third cousins with American writer, journalist and historian
Shelby Foote, author of "The Civil War: A Narrative", a three-volume history of the American Civil War which would become the partial basis of the iconic
Ken Burns PBS documentary miniseries
The Civil War (1990). Shelby made numerous appearances in the series while his cousin Horton provided the voice of
Jefferson Davis. The great-grandfathers of the two Footes were brothers.