Ancestry of
Clint Eastwood

TV & Film Actor and Director

Ruth Root

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Clint Eastwood — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 433 
  • Father:
  • Joshua Root 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Gilbert   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Mar 1722 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Jan 1817 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Sheffield Plain Cemetery, Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Silas Kellogg
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 May 1739 
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  • Child:

  Ephraim Kellogg (Ahnentafel No:216 )

• Sources for Ruth Root

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/14/2013).
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Ruth Root.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1860, Vol. 14, p. 127.
  • ⁴ Sheffield, MA: Vital Records to 1798, Page 33, Birth record for son Ephraim Kellogg.
  • ⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #42287, Membership application for Albert Blanchard Kellogg.
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #20183, Membership application for Robert Marmaduke Kellogg.
  • ⁷ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 42.
  • ⁸ Root, James Pierce, Root Genealogical Records, 1600-1870: Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America, New York: R.C. Root, Anthony and Co. (1870), 322, 330-331.