Ancestry of
Douglas Trumbull

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Sylvanus Shurtleff

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Douglas Trumbull — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Oliver Shurtleff 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Aug 1811 
  • Birth Location:
  • Isle La Motte, Grand Isle, Vermont 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 1903 
  • Death Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton, DeWitt, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Ann Day
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Jun 1835 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Decatur, Macon, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Emily Shurtleff (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  • Notes: 

  • Black Hawk War veteran

• Sources for Sylvanus Shurtleff

  • ¹ Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Deaths Index, 1878-1922, Death record for daughter Emily Trumbull.
  • ² Federal Census, IL, DeWitt County, 1860, Clinton, p. 16, Image 6 of 35.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/28/2022).
  • ⁴ Illinois, U.S., Marriage Index, 1860-1920, Marriage record for Sylvanus Shurtleff and Elizabeth Ann Day.
  • ⁵ The Clinton Register (Clinton, Illinois), 14 APR 1876, p. 1, "Sylvanus Shurtleff".
  • ⁶ The Daily Journal (Freeport, Illinois), 18 JUL 1892, p. 4, "Adopted by the Indians".
  • ⁷ Shurtleff, Roy L., Descendants of William Shurtleff: 1976 Revised Edition, San Francisco, California: Roy L. Shurtleff (1976), 124, 226.

Douglas Trumbull photo by Julian Herzog (CC BY 4.0)