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Edmund Hamilton Sears

Author, "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"

Joseph Sears

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• • Father of Edmund Hamilton Sears — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Joshua Sears 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Blackmore   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1778 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Sep 1851 
  • Death Location:
  • Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Sandisfield Center Cemetery, Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lucy Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1800 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Edmund Hamilton Sears (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Joseph Sears

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Berkshire County, 1850, Sandisfield, Image 27 of 40.
  • ² General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 9159, Membership application for Katharine (Sears) Endicott.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/30/2025).
  • ⁴ Johnson, Rossiter and John Howard Brown, editors, The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol. 09, Qua-Stearns, Boston: The Biographical Society (1904), Profile of son Edmund Hamilton Sears.
  • ⁵ May, Samuel P., The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1890), 228.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Edmund Sears", (accessed 06/30/2025).