Ancestry of
Annie Proulx

Novelist and Short Story Writer

Elbridge Geer

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Annie Proulx — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • Fitch Geer 
  • Mother:
  • Diana Townsend   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Sep 1826 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Jan 1900 
  • Death Location:
  • Hopeville, New London, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pachaug Cemetery, Griswold, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Clark Mayo
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Nov 1852 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  George Eldridge Geer (Ahnentafel No:14 )

• Sources for Elbridge Geer

  • ¹ Federal Census, CT, New London County, 1870, Griswold, p. 58, Image 58 of 66.
  • ² Federal Census, CT, New London County, 1880, Griswold, E.D. 107, p. 24, Image 24 of 24.
  • ³ Federal Census, CT, New London County, 1860, Griswold, p. 26, Image 26 of 56.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, CT, New London County, 1850, Griswold, Image 46 of 51.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/26/2019).
  • ⁶ Geer, Walter, Genealogy of the Geer Family in America from 1635 to 1914, New York: Tobias A. Wright, Printer and Publisher (1914), 58.
  • ⁷ Mayo-Rodwick, Jean (May), Rev. John Mayo and his Descendants, Fruita, Colorado: Blood Ties (2010), 711.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 208.

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