Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Edwin Stanton Earhart

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• • Father of Amelia Earhart — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • David Earhart Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Wells Patton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Mar 1867 
  • Birth Location:
  • Atchison, Atchison Co., Kansas 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Sep 1930 
  • Death Location:
  • Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Amelia "Amy" Otis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Oct 1895 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wyandotte County, Kansas 
  • Child:

  Amelia Mary Earhart (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Edwin Earhart appears to be listed as Samuel E. Earhart in the 1870 census.

• Additional marriages for Edwin Stanton Earhart

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  • Spouse:
  • Helen McPherson
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1927

• Sources for Edwin Stanton Earhart

  • ¹ Altoona Tribune (Altoona, Pennsylvania), 24 SEP 1930, p. 2, Obituary for Edwin S. Earhart.
  • ² California, U.S., Death Index, 1905-1939, Death record for Edwin S. Earhart.
  • ³ Federal Census, CA, Los Angeles County, 1930, Los Angeles, E.D. 19-668, Sheet 25B, Image 35 of 35.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, CA, Los Angeles County, 1920, Los Angeles, E.D. 212, Sheet 8A, Image 15 of 36.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, IA, Polk County, 1910, Des Moines Ward 3, E.D. 111, Sheet 7B, Image 14 of 17.
  • ⁶ Federal Census, KS, Wyandotte County, 1900, Kansas City Ward 4, E.D. 157, Sheet 8A, Image 15 of 29.
  • ⁷ Federal Census, KS, Atchison County, 1880, Atchison City, E.D. 2, p. 18, Image 18 of 71.
  • ⁸ Federal Census, KS, Atchison County, 1870, Center, p. 35, Image 34 of 41.
  • ⁹ Genealogical and Biographical Record of North-Eastern Kansas, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1900), 39-40.
  • ¹⁰ Kansas Marriages, 1840-1935, Marriage record for Edwin Stanton Earhart and Amy Otis.
  • ¹¹ The Indiana Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania), 30 OCT 1962, p. 1, Obituary for spouse Amy Otis Earhart.
  • ¹² U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #20647, Membership application for Edwin S. Earhart.
  • ¹³ Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, "Home as a Birthplace", (accessed 07/30/2015).
  • ¹⁴ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 562.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/06/2017).
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 490.
  • ¹⁷ Wikipedia, "Amelia Earhart", (accessed 07/30/2015).

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