Ancestry of
Geena Davis

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Sarah Ward

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Geena Davis — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 129 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1728 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jul 1825 
  • Death Location:
  • Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eleazer Davis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Jul 1748 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Asahel Davis (Ahnentafel No:64 )

  • Notes: 

  • Sarah Ward was not the daughter of Miles and Elizabeth (Webb) Ward as is often claimed. That Sarah was the wife of John Ives.

• Sources for Sarah Ward

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A030263.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town Death Records, 1620-1850, Death record for Sarah Davis.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Holden, Vol. 1, p. 30, Birth record for son Asahel Davis.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rutland, Vol. 1, p. 30, Birth record for son Asahel Davis.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Holden, Vol. 1, p. 120, Marriage record for Eleazer Davis and Sarah Ward.
  • ⁶ Crane, Ellery Bicknell, ed., Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1907), 319.

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