Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Silence Wood

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of William Howard Taft — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 237 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Wood 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Daniel   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Feb 1675/1676 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 May 1756 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Holbrook
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1694 
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  • Child:

  John Holbrook Jr. (Ahnentafel No:118 )

• Sources for Silence Wood

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, pp. 208, 210.
  • ² Morse, Rev. Abner, A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants and History of the Towns of Sherborn and Holliston, Boston: Damrell & Moore (1856), 141.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 433.