Ancestry of
Whitney Houston

Singer and Actress

Elizabeth G. Spears

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Whitney Houston — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 21 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
  • Letitia -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1819 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
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  • Burial Date:
  • 14 Sep 1876 
  • Burial Location:
  • San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Henry M. Collins
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1837 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Sydnor Spears Collins

  Samuel Joseph Collins

  Frederick Douglass Collins

  Abraham Augustus Collins (Ahnentafel No:10 )

  • Notes: 

  • Elizabeth is listed as mulatto in the Federal Census.

• Sources for Elizabeth G. Spears

  • ¹ California, U.S., County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980, Death record for son Frederick Douglass Collins.
  • ² California, U.S., County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980, Death record for son Samuel Joseph Collins.
  • ³ California, U.S., County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980, Death record for son Sydnor Spears Collins.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, PA, Allegheny County, 1850, Pittsburgh Ward 6, Image 43 of 174.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, CA, San Francisco County, 1860, San Francisco District 1, Image 25 of 125.
  • ⁶ San Francisco Area, California, Funeral Home Records, 1850-1931, Funeral record for Elizabeth G Collins.

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