Ancestry of
Hugh Hefner

Founder of Playboy Magazine

John Arthur Householder

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• • Great-grandfather of Hugh Hefner — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • Robert Householder 
  • Mother:
  • Angeline -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Sep 1837 
  • Birth Location:
  • Romney, Hampshire, West Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jul 1880 
  • Death Location:
  • Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Yankee Hill Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lurena Virginia Woodward
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Jan 1861 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Lois Nina Householder (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Householder was born in Virginia in what is now part of West Virginia.

• Sources for John Arthur Householder

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A129286.
  • ² Federal Census, NE, Lancaster County, 1880, Yankee Hill, ED #241, p. 11, Image 11 of 13.
  • ³ Federal Census, IL, Piatt County, 1870, Blue Ridge, p. 22, Image 22 of 28.
  • ⁴ Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934, Marriage record for James M. Hefner and daughter Lois Nina Householder.
  • ⁵ Green, Helen Burcham, Burcham, Householder, Green and Stewart 1430 to 1995, S.I.: H.B. Green (1995), 168-170.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 359.

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