Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Alexander Q. Nash

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• • Grandfather of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Jesse Gent Nash 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Louise Marsh   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Sep 1855 
  • Birth Location:
  • Aberdeen, Monroe, Mississippi 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1930 
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  • Burial Location:
  • West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Grayson, Texas 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha A. Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Aug 1889 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Fannin County, Texas 
  • Child:

  John Forbes Nash (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Alexander Q. Nash

  • ¹ Federal Census, TX, Grayson County, 1900, Sherman Ward 2, E.D. 88, Sheet 15B, Image 30 of 36.
  • ² Germanna Foundation Database of Descendants, ID-I112839, Record for Alexander Q Nash.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/22/2022).
  • ⁴ Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965, Marriage record for A Q Nash and Mattie A Smith.
  • ⁵ The Encyclopedia of the New West: Containing Fully Authenticated Information of the Agricultural, Mercantile, . . ., Marshall, Texas: The United States Biographical Publishing Company (1881), 336.
  • ⁶ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy: The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland About the Year 1655 . . ., Chicago: Rand McNally and Co. (1892), 56.

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