Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Harry Edward Sargent

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Edward Sargent 
  • Mother:
  • Adelaide S. Conklin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Jun 1864 
  • Birth Location:
  • Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Aug 1913 
  • Death Location:
  • Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  • 16 Aug 1913 
  • Burial Location:
  • Pine Grove Cemetery, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Annie Laura Trask
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 May 1888 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Evelyn Sargent (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Sources for Harry Edward Sargent

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A027258.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Worcester County, 1870, Leicester, p. 26, Image 26 of 71.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death certificate for Harry E Sargent.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Marriage Records, 1840-1915, Marriage record for Lionel Frederick Jealous and daughter Evelyn Sargent.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Mason Membership Cards, 1733-1990, Record for Harry Edward Sargent.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Leicester, Vol. 390, p. 367, Marriage record for Harry E Sargent and Annie L Trask.
  • ⁷ Denny, Christopher Columbus, Genealogy of the Denny Family in England and America: Descendants of John Denny of Combs, Suffolk, England, in 1439, Worcester, Massachusetts: Press of Chas. Hamilton (1886), 154.
  • ⁸ Sargent, William and Aaron Sargent, Sargent Genealogy: Hugh Sargent, of Courteenhall, Northamptonshire, and His Descendants . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Geo. H. Ellis, Printer (1895), 122, 151.

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