Ancestry of
Grover Cleveland

22nd and 24th U.S. President

Richard Falley Jr.

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• • Great-grandfather of Grover Cleveland — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • Richard Falley 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Lamb   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Jan 1740 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lower Settlement, St. George's River (now Cushing), Maine 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Sep 1808 
  • Death Location:
  • Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Burying Ground, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Hitchcock
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Dec 1761/1762 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Margaret Falley (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for Richard Falley Jr.

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/09/2013).
  • ² Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918, Death record for Richard Falley Jr..
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westfield Births, Vol. 1, Page 58, Birth record for daughter Margaret Falley.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, pp. 42, 44, 96-100.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1886, Vol. 40, p. 308.
  • ⁶ Springfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 2, p. 1626, Marriage record for Richard Falley and Margaret Hitchcock.
  • ⁷ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 521, 523.
  • ⁸ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 504.
  • ⁹ Hitchcock, Mrs. Edward, Sr., The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family: Who are Descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and . . ., Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1894), 219, 234-235.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 456-457.
  • ¹¹ Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 7.