Ancestry of
James S. Kemper

Founder, Kemper Insurance Cos.

Ruth Sherwood

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of James S. Kemper — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 359 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Sherwood 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1642 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Sep 1699 
  • Death Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joshua Holcombe
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jun 1663 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Hannah Holcombe

  Ruth Holcombe (Ahnentafel No:179 )

  • Notes: 

  • Ruth Sherwood's maiden name is also seen as Sherud.

• Sources for Ruth Sherwood

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 22, Marriage record for Samuel Buell and daughter Hanah Holcomb.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 966.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 310.
  • ⁴ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1992, Vol. 25, pp. 218-219.