Ancestry of
T. S. Eliot

Poet and Playwright

Thomas Stearns Jr.

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• • Grandfather of T. S. Eliot — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Stearns 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Cushing   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Oct 1811 
  • Birth Location:
  • Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1896 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Charlotte Blood
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1840 
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  • Child:

  Charlotte Champe Stearns (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • In the 1860 Federal Census, Thomas Stearns is indicated as being insane. A comment written on the census return states "over taxing the brain."

• Sources for Thomas Stearns Jr.

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Middlesex County, 1860, Acton, p. 10, Image 10 of 21.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Norfolk County, 1950, Roxbury, Image 165 of 438.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for Henry Ware Eliot and daughter Charlotte Champe Stearns.
  • ⁴ Eliot, Valerie, ed., The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1, 1898-1922, 5.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ Van Wagenen, Mrs. Avis Stearns, Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants, Syracuse, New York: Courier Printing Co. (1901), 228, 408.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Charlotte Champe Stearns", (accessed 03/18/2021).