Ancestry of
Raquel Welch

Movie Actress

Clara Louise Adams

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• • Grandmother of Raquel Welch — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Warren Adams 
  • Mother:
  • Josephine H. Merrill   
  • Birth Date:
  • Nov 1871 
  • Birth Location:
  • Illinois 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1950 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, Urbana, Champaign, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Emery Stanford Hall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Jun 1900 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mendota, LaSalle, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Josephine Sarah Hall (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 
  • Clara died in 1950 as indicated on her gravestone. There is a death record for a Clara H. Hall in Cook Couny, Illinois who died on 08 MAR 1950. However the middle initial is H. and without examining the primary record we cannot say for certain that this is the same Clara. Further verification is needed.

• Sources for Clara Louise Adams

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A000637 and A119002.
  • ² Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1910, Chicago, Ward 13, ED #647, Sheet 1, Image 1 of 24.
  • ³ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1940, Chicago, Ward 48, Block 16, ED #103-3056, Sheet 2A, Image 3 of 24.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, IL, LaSalle County, 1880, Mendota, ED #74, Page 37, Image 37 of 48.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, IL, LaSalle County, 1900, Mendota, ED #65, Sheet 5B, Image 10 of 39.
  • ⁶ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/05/2013).
  • ⁷ Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, Marriage record for Emery Stanford Hall and Clara Louise Adams.
  • ⁸ Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, Death record for husband Emery Stanford Hall.
  • ⁹ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 17, New York: James T. White and Company (1920), 9.
  • ¹⁰ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Claim record for daughter Josephine Hall Esterly.
  • ¹¹ IMDb, "Biography for Raquel Welch", (accessed 02/05/2013).
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 306-307.
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Raquel Welch", (accessed 02/05/2013).

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