Ancestry of
O. Henry

Short Story Writer

Ruth Bird

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of O. Henry — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 39 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Bird 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Steele   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 26 Jul 1702 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 11 May 1759 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Paterson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Jan 1730/1731 
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  • Child:

  Sarah Paterson (Ahnentafel No:19 )

• Sources for Ruth Bird

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Hartford, Connecticut, Case #541, Probate file for father Joseph Bird.
  • ² Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Hartford, Connecticut, Case #4127, Probate file for spouse John Paterson.
  • ³ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1890, Vol. 21, p. 100.
  • ⁴ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 72.
  • ⁵ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2006, Vol. 39, pp. 277-278, Extract of will of spouse Major John Paterson.
  • ⁶ Durrie, Daniel Steele, Steele Family: A Genealogical History of John and George Steele, (Settlers of Hartford, Conn.,) 1635-6, And Their . . ., Albany, New York: Munsell and Rowland (1859), 13.
  • ⁷ Egleston, Thomas, The Life of John Paterson: Major-General in the Revolutionary Army, New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1894), 2.
  • ⁸ Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, Chronicles of a Pioneer School from 1792 to 1833: Being the History of Miss Sarah Pierce and Her Litchfield School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press (1903), 4.
  • ⁹ Walworth, Reuben H., Hyde Genealogy; or the Descendants in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich (2 vols.), Albany, NY: J. Munsell (1864), 270.