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Wild Bill Hickok

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Bethia Root

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Wild Bill Hickok — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 17 
  • Father:
  • John Root 
  • Mother:
  • Dorcas Abbott   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Feb 1703 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 
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  • BY 22 Sep 1760 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Stephen Hickok
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  • Child:

  Aaron Hickok (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Sources for Bethia Root

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Woodbury, Page 91, Birth record for Bethiah Root.
  • ² Eardeley, William Applebie, Chronology and Ancestry of Chauncey M. Depew: with Fifty-four other Affiliated Families of New York, New Jersey and . . ., New York: Unknown (1918), 92.
  • ³ Hickok, Charles Nelson, The Hickok Genealogy: Descendants of William Hickoks of Farmington, Connecticut with Ancestry of Charles Nelson Hickok, Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Co. (1938), 35.
  • ⁴ Jacobus, Donald Lines, comp., History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, Baltimore: Reprinted for Clearfield Company (2007, originally published 1930-1932), 505.
  • ⁵ Kilbourne, Payne Kenyon, The History and Antiquities of the Name and Family of Kilbourn, (in its varied orthography.), New Haven: Durrie and Peck (1856), 42.
  • ⁶ Root, James Pierce, Root Genealogical Records, 1600-1870: Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America, New York: R.C. Root, Anthony and Co. (1870), 54.