Ancestry of
Geena Davis

Movie and TV Actress

Ruth Harris

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Geena Davis — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 159 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Harris 
  • Mother:
  • Dinah Wilcox   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Mar 1725/1726 
  • Birth Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 May 1752 
  • Death Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Simeon Cady
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Feb 1745 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Rosamond Cady (Ahnentafel No:79 )

• Sources for Ruth Harris

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 45, Birth record for daughter Rosemond Cady.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2002, Vol. 156, p. 362.
  • ³ Allen, Orrin Peer, Descendants of Nicholas Cady of Watertown, Mass. 1645-1910, Palmer, Massachusetts: Press of C. B. Fiske and Co. (1910), 44.
  • ⁴ Newton, William Monroe, History of Barnard, Vermont with Family Genealogies, 1761-1927, Vol. 2, [Montpelier, Vermont]: Vermont Historical Society (1928), 110.

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