Ancestry of
Matthew Perry

TV and Movie Actor

Lydia Hannah Schaefer

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• • Great-grandmother of Matthew Perry — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 11 
  • Father:
  • Johannes Schaefer 
  • Mother:
  • Emily Schlachter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1881 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1940 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Glenwood Cemetery, Homer, Cortland, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ralph Stone Bennett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Oct 1908 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Syracuse, Onondaga, New York 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Benjamin Bennett

  Maria Schaefer Bennett (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for Lydia Hannah Schaefer

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Cortland County, 1910, Homer, E.D. 128, Sheet 5B, Image 10 of 25.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/01/2025).
  • ³ New York, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1847-1849, 1907-1936, Marriage license for Ralph Stone Bennett and Lydia Hannah Schaefer.
  • ⁴ North Adams Transcript (North Adams, Massachusetts), 24 SEP 1971, p. 20, Obituary for daughter Maria (Bennett) Perry.
  • ⁵ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Draft registration for spouse Ralph Stone Bennett.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Family History of Western New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 1446.