Ancestry of
Winthrop Rockefeller

37th Governor of Arkansas

Laura Celestia Spelman

View famous kin of Laura Celestia Spelman

• • Grandmother of Winthrop Rockefeller — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Harvey Buel Spelman 
  • Mother:
  • Lucy Henry   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Sep 1839 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Mar 1915 
  • Death Location:
  • Pocantico Hills, Mount Pleasant, Westchester, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Davison Rockefeller
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Sep 1864 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio 
  • Child:

  John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Laura Celestia Spelman

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/23/2012).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 327.
  • ³ Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Marriage record for John D. Rockefeller and Laura C. Spelman.
  • ⁴ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #92955, Membership application for Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.
  • ⁵ Avery, Elroy McKendree and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, Cleveland: n. p. (1912), Vol. 1, p. 587.
  • ⁶ Eldridge, William Henry, Henry Genealogy: The Descendants of Samuel Henry of Hadley and Amherst, Mass., 1734-1790 and Lurana . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Press of T. R. Marvin and Son (1915), 74-75.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/07/2017).
  • ⁸ Rockefeller, Henry Oscar, Rockefeller Genealogy, New York, New York: Rockefeller Family Association (ca.1954-1965), 200-202.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Laura Spelman Rockefeller", (accessed 11/23/2012).