Ancestry of
T. S. Eliot

Poet and Playwright

Molly Corey

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of T. S. Eliot — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 25 
  • Father:
  • Oliver Corey 
  • Mother:
  • Mary King   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Mar 1750 
  • Birth Location:
  • Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Dec 1828 
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  • Burial Location:
  • North Cemetery, Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Josiah Stearns
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Mar 1769 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Thomas Stearns (Ahnentafel No:12 )

  • Notes: 

  • Molly Corey's given name is also seen as Mary.

    Publications often give her death date as 28 DEC 1828, however her tombstone has it as 18 DEC 1828.

• Sources for Molly Corey

  • ¹ Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784, Corey, Oliver (Rockingham), p. 2.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/18/2021).
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1999, Vol. 74, p. 229.
  • ⁴ Treman, Ebenezer Mack and Murray E. Poole, The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America, [Ithaca, New York]: Press of the Ithaca Democrat (1901), 1820bl.
  • ⁵ Van Wagenen, Mrs. Avis Stearns, Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants, Syracuse, New York: Courier Printing Co. (1901), 101-102, 228.