Ancestry of
Alan Shepard

Mercury and Apollo Astronaut

Abner R. Johnson Jr.

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Alan Shepard — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Abner Johnson 
  • Mother:
  • Anna Delano   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Dec 1783 
  • Birth Location:
  • Grantham, Sullivan, New Hampshire 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Jul 1872 
  • Death Location:
  • New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Quimby
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Mar 1817 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Sullivan, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Rosina E. Johnson (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  • Notes: 

  • Dr. Abner Johnson's death occurred in New Hampshire, but it is recorded in the vital records of Framingham where he lived.

• Sources for Abner R. Johnson Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death record for Abner Johnson.
  • ² New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904, Birth record for Abner Johnson.
  • ³ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1637-1947, Marriage record for Abner Johnson and Mary Quimby.
  • ⁴ Johnson, Paul Franklin, et. al., Genealogy of Captain John Johnson of Roxbury, Massachusetts: Generations I to XIV, Los Angeles, California: Privately printed by The Commonwealth Press, Inc. (1951), 42, 85.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 493.
  • ⁶ Shepard, Gerald Faulkner and Donald Lines Jacobus, The Shepard Families of New England, Vol. 3: Additional Family Groups, North Haven, Connecticut: The New Haven Colony Historical Society (1973), 285.