Amanda Seyfried makes gruesome discovery about her ancestor in Finding Your Roots ‘Mean Girls’ star reacted in horror to story of her third great-grandfather’s death, saying: ‘Oh my God, that’s so sad!’.
“John P. Ebert, the well-known retired baker, a good citizen and inoffensive man, was shot three times by an unknown assailant on the back step of his home at Washington and Lumber Street at 9:30 last night,” the article began.
Oh my God,” Seyfried said as she read the article stating that her great-grandfather’s grandfather had been fatally shot at his home one night in 1905.
It described the fateful event, saying that Ebert likely had his hand on the doorknob of his backdoor “when from between the outhouse and the grape arbor which screens it stepped a man who fired three shots at him point blank at a range not more than a yard.”.
Amanda Seyfried made a horrifying discovery about her third great-grandfather during a recent appearance on the PBS show Finding Your Roots.
