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Anna Coffin Ray

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• • Great-grandmother of George Plimpton — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • Obed S. Ray 
  • Mother:
  • Anna W. Joy   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Jan 1840 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Mar 1917 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Village Cemetery, Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Oliver Ames
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Mar 1860 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Anna Lee Ames

  Oakes Ames (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Sources for Anna Coffin Ray

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 40546, Membership application for Lawrence Ames Nowell.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/26/2024.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1916-1920, 1917, Boston, Vol. 1, p. 221, Death record for Anna C (Ray) Ames.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 402.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Oakes Ames (botanist)", (accessed 03/15/2021).
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Oliver Ames (governor)", (accessed 03/15/2021).