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Johnny Carson

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George William Hook

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• • Grandfather of Johnny Carson — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • William Hook 
  • Mother:
  • Cynthia Saphronia Hopkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Dec 1871 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Nov 1947 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Fairview Cemetery, Bedford, Taylor, Iowa 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Jessie Elton Boyd
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Sep 1900 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bedford, Taylor, Iowa 
  • Child:

  Ruth E. Hook (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Additional marriages for George William Hook

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  • Spouse:
  • Edna Eckler Walkert
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1917

• Sources for George William Hook

  • ¹ Federal Census, IA, Taylor County, 1900, Bedford, E.D. 115, Sheet 7B, Image 18 of 58.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/20/2018).
  • ³ Iowa, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1999, Birth record for daughter Ruth Hook.
  • ⁴ Hook, James William, James Hook and Virginia Eller: A Family History and Genealogy, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1925), 90.
  • ⁵ Nourse, Eva Miller, The Millar-du Bois Family: Its History and Genealogy, n. p.: n. p. (1928), 82.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 126.
  • 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), 625.