Ancestry of
Ernest Hemingway

Author of The Sun Also Rises

John Wesley Edmonds

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• • Great-grandfather of Ernest Hemingway — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Edmonds 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Plumb   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Dec 1813 
  • Birth Location:
  • Syracuse, Onondaga, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Apr 1898 
  • Death Location:
  • Nashua, Ogle, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Lighthouse Cemetery, Daysville, Ogle, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Miller
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Dec 1837 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mount Pleasant, Ontario, Canada 
  • Child:

  Adelaide Edmonds (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  • Notes: 

  • Sources disagree regarding John Wesley Edmonds birthplace. Some sources give Montgomery County, New York.

• Sources for John Wesley Edmonds

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A089787.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/16/2014).
  • ³ Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947, Death record for daughter Adelaide Edmonds Hemingway.
  • ⁴ Hemingway, Patricia S., The Hemingways: Past and Present and Allied Families, Rev. Ed., Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1988), 216, 456-463.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 183.
  • ⁶ White, Emma Siggins and Martha Humphreys Maltby, Genesis of the White Family: A Connected Record of the White Family Beginning in . . ., Kansas City, Missouri: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co. (1920), 225.