Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Elijah R. Smith

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 40 
  • Father:
  • Bezaleel Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Prudence Rice   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 May 1803 
  • Birth Location:
  • Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Feb 1893 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Presby
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Jan 1838 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Leonard Wood Smith (Ahnentafel No:20 )

• Additional marriages for Elijah R. Smith

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  • Spouse:
  • Lucy Wood

• Sources for Elijah R. Smith

  • ¹ Federal Census, NH, Hillsborough County, 1850, Manchester, Image 279 of 332.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/22/2023).
  • ³ New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949, Death record for Elijah R Smith.
  • ⁴ New Hampshire, U.S., Death Records, 1650-1969, Death record for son Leonard Wood Smith.
  • ⁵ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1637-1947, Marriage record for Elijah Smith and Hannah Presbury.
  • ⁶ New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1971, Marriage record for son Leonard W Smith and Lucy J Youngman.
  • ⁷ Ward, Andrew Henshaw, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England . . ., Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson (1858), 189, 281-282.

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