Ancestry of
Florence Foster Besse

(1885–1974)

Lyman Waterman Besse

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• • Father of Florence Foster Besse — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Sylvanus S. Besse Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Lucy Anne Waterman   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1854 
  • Birth Location:
  • Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Henrietta Louisa Seger
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Feb 1879 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  Florence Foster Besse (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Arthur Lyman Besse

• Sources for Lyman Waterman Besse

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Hampden County, 1930, Springfield, E.D. 7-54, Sheet 1A, Image 1 of 37.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Wareham, Vol. 308, p. 332, Marriage record for Lyman W Besse and Henrietta L Segee.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1911-1915, Springfield, Vol. 611, p. 217, Marriage of Kingman Brewster and daughter Florence F Besse.
  • ⁴ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2001, Vol. 2.1, p. 40.
  • ⁵ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 39, New York: James T. White and Company (1954), 509.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 515.