Ancestry of
Matthew Modine

TV and Movie Actor

Celestia Adelaide Johnson

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• • Great-grandmother of Matthew Modine — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 11 
  • Father:
  • Philo Johnson 
  • Mother:
  • Experience Almeda Brown   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Feb 1861 
  • Birth Location:
  • Payson, Utah Co., Utah 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 May 1938 
  • Death Location:
  • Ventura County, California 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pierce Brothers Santa Paula Cemetery, Santa Paula, Ventura, California 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 15 Sep 1877 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Zella Vonola Fairbanks (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for Celestia Adelaide Johnson

  • ¹ California, U.S., Death Index, 1905-1939, Death record for Celesta Fairbanks.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/11/2025).
  • ³ Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848, Record for the family of father Philo Johnson.
  • ⁴ Ellsworth, German E. and Mary Smith Ellsworth, Our Ellsworth Ancestors, n. p.: n. p. [c 195-], 40.
  • ⁵ Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Familly in America, 1633-1897, Boston: American Printing and Engraving Company (1897), 785.
  • ⁶ Fairbanks, Lynn and Katie, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family of the West, 1839-1965, Salt Lake City, Utah: L. and K. Fairbanks (1971), 53-54.
  • ⁷ White, Almira Larkin, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1638-1900, Vol. 2, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Chase Brothers, Printers (1900), 326.