Ancestry of
Ulysses S. Grant

18th U.S. President

Jesse Root Grant

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• • Father of Ulysses S. Grant — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Noah Grant 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Kelley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Jan 1794 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jun 1873 
  • Death Location:
  • Covington, Kenton, Kentucky 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Simpson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Jun 1821 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Point Pleasant, Monroe Twnshp, Clermont, Ohio 
  • Child:

  Ulysses Simpson Grant (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Jesse Root Grant

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/26/2013).
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1975, Vol. 51, Page 232.
  • ³ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #14914, Membership application for Algernon Edward Urban Sartoris.
  • ⁴ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 471, 473.
  • ⁵ Marshall, Edward Chauncey, The Ancestry of General Grant, and their Contemporaries, New York: Sheldon and Company (1869), 172-173.
  • ⁶ Pack, Charles Lathrop, Thomas Hatch of Barnstable and Some of his Descendants: The Descent of Alice Gertrude Hatch and her Husband . . ., Newark, New Jersey: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey (1930), 88.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 3.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 921.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 436, 448, 455, 473.
  • ¹⁰ Welles, Albert, History of the Buell Family in England: From the Remotest Times Ascertainable from Our Ancient Histories, and in America, New York: Society Library (1881), 103.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Ulysses S. Grant", (accessed 04/26/2013).