Ancestry of
T. S. Eliot

Poet and Playwright

William Greenleaf Eliot

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• • Grandfather of T. S. Eliot — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • William Greenleaf Eliot 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Greenleaf Dawes   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Aug 1811 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Jan 1887 
  • Death Location:
  • Pass Christian, Harrison, Mississippi 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Adams Cranch
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 JAN or JUN 1837 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Henry Ware Eliot (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Founder of Washington University in St. Louis

• Sources for William Greenleaf Eliot

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A047548.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/18/2021).
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for son Henry Ware Eliot and Charlotte Champe Stearns.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847, Vol. 1, p. 79.
  • ⁵ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 211-212.
  • ⁶ Holland, Henry W., William Dawes and His Ride with Paul Revere: An Essay Read Before the New England Historic Genealogical Society . . ., Boston: John Wilson and Son (1878), 69-70.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "William Greenleaf Eliot", (accessed 03/18/2021).