Ancestry of
Ezra Pound

Expatriate American Poet and Critic

Asenath How

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• • Great-grandmother of Ezra Pound — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • Eliphalet How 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Feb 1798 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Jul 1857 
  • Death Location:
  • Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Wheeler Weston
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  • Child:

  Harding Weston (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Sources for Asenath How

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1850, New York Ward 8, Dist. 1, Image 61 of 300.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for son Harding Weston.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barre, Vol. 1, p. 48, Birth record for Asenith How.
  • ⁴ New York, U.S., Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection), New York Evening Post, 21 JUL 1857, Obituary for Mrs Asenath Weston.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 177.
  • ⁶ Wilhelm, James J., The American Roots of Ezra Pound, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (1985), 33-34.