Ancestry of
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Jesse Gent Nash

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• • Great-grandfather of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • George Nash 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Gent   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Jan 1822 
  • Birth Location:
  • Blount County, Alabama 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1897 
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  • Burial Location:
  • West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Grayson, Texas 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Louise Marsh
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Jul 1849 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Washington County, Ohio 
  • Child:

  Alexander Q. Nash (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Jesse Gent Nash

  • ¹ Germanna Foundation Database of Descendants, ID-112842, Record for Jesse Gent Nash.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/22/2022).
  • ³ Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Marriage record for Jesse G Nash and Mary L Marsh.
  • ⁴ The Encyclopedia of the New West: Containing Fully Authenticated Information of the Agricultural, Mercantile, . . ., Marshall, Texas: The United States Biographical Publishing Company (1881), 335-336.
  • ⁵ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy: The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland About the Year 1655 . . ., Chicago: Rand McNally and Co. (1892), 56.

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