Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Austin F. Conklin

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 74 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin F. Conklin 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Browning   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Apr 1802 
  • Birth Location:
  • Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Apr 1886 
  • Death Location:
  • Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pine Grove Cemetery, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sophia Hatch
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 May 1828 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Winthrop P. Conklin

  Adelaide S. Conklin (Ahnentafel No:37 )

  Benjamin A. Conklin

• Sources for Austin F. Conklin

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Worcester County, 1850, Leicester, Image 44 of 55.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Worcester County, 1880, Worcester, E.D. 896, p. 31, Image 31 of 38.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/22/2023).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Leicester, Vol. 1, p. 136, Marriage record for Austin F Conklin and Sophia Hatch.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Leicester, Vol. 1, p 24, Birth records for children of Austin and Sophia Conklin.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Leicester, Vol. 1, p. 248, Death record for son Benjamin A Conklin.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Leicester, Vol. 375, p. 414, Death record for Austin F Conklin.
  • ⁸ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Worcester, Vol. 375, p. 498, Death record for Austin F Conklin.
  • ⁹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Leicester, Vol. 330, p. 371, Death record for daughter Adelaide S Sargent.
  • ¹⁰ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Leicester, Vol. 119, p. 168, Marriage of Edward Sargent and daughter Adelaide S Conklin.
  • ¹¹ Cushing, Muriel Curtis, Philip Delano of the "Fortune" 1621 and His Descendants in the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Generations: Part 2, Plymouth, Massachusett: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 122.
  • ¹² 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), 117.
  • ¹³ Sargent, William and Aaron Sargent, Sargent Genealogy: Hugh Sargent, of Courteenhall, Northamptonshire, and His Descendants . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Geo. H. Ellis, Printer (1895), 85.

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