Ancestry of
Grover Cleveland

22nd and 24th U.S. President

Richard Falley Cleveland

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• • Father of Grover Cleveland — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • William Cleveland 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Falley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Jun 1804 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Oct 1853 
  • Death Location:
  • Holland Patent, Oneida, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Holland Patent Cemetery, Holland Patent, Oneida, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann Neal
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Sep 1829 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Methodist Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland 
  • Child:

  (Stephen) Grover Cleveland (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Most sources give the marriage date for Richard Cleveland and Ann Neal as 10 SEP 1829. However the Maryland marriage indices found at the New England Historic Genealogical Society and at the LDS website all give 16 SEP 1829 as the date.

• Sources for Richard Falley Cleveland

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, Page 62, Marriage record for Richard Cleveland and Ann Neal at Baltimore.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A023053.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/07/2013).
  • ⁴ Maryland, Marriages, 1666-1970, Marriage record for Richard F. Cleveland and Ann Neal.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, p. 104.
  • ⁶ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Page 180875, Marriage record for Richard Cleveland and Ann Neal at Baltimore.
  • 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 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. 2, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 1088-1089.
  • ¹⁰ 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), 235.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 312.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 500.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 39.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 449, 456-457, 461, 474, 479, 580, 663.
  • ¹⁵ Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert, Genealogical Gleanings in England, Volume 2, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1901), 1068.
  • ¹⁶ Watkins, Walter K. and Eben Putnam, New England Ancestry of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press (1892), 7.
  • ¹⁷ Wikipedia, "Grover Cleveland", (accessed 03/04/2013).