Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Hannah Presby

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Ben Jealous — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 41 
  • Father:
  • William Presby 
  • Mother:
  • Betsey -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1810 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bradford, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Dec 1879 
  • Death Location:
  • Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elijah R. Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Jan 1838 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Leonard Wood Smith (Ahnentafel No:20 )

  • Notes: 

  • Hannah Presby's given name is also seen as Anna, and her maiden name is also seen as Presbury and Preston.

• Sources for Hannah Presby

  • 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 Hannah P 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), 281-282.

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