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Hugh Hefner

Ancestry of
Hugh Hefner

Founder of Playboy Magazine


    Elizabeth Smith

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    • 9th Great-grandmother of Hugh Hefner — 12th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 2979 
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1602 
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    • Death Date:
    • 16 Mar 1686 
    • Death Location:
    • Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 6 Oct 1624 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Whatfield, Suffolk, England 
    • Children:

    • Samuel Smith

      Elizabeth Smith (Ahnentafel No:1489 )

      Mary Smith

      Philip Smith

      Philip Smith

      Chileab Smith

      John Smith

    • Notes: 
    • Many sources erroneously give Elizabeth Smith's maiden name as Chileab. The evidence for her maiden name being Smith is given in The American Genealogist (32:202-203).

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  • Sources for Elizabeth Smith

    • 3 Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 114.
    • 4 Fenno-Gendrot, Almira Torrey Blake, The Ancestry and Allied Families of Nathan Blake 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake, Early Residents of East Corinth, Vermont, Boston, Massachusetts: Published by the Author, at the Stanhope Press (1916), 28, 30.
    • 5 Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and His Wife Eunice White Bullard, Unknown: Unknown (1927), 99.
    • 6 Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his Wife Frances Helen Miller, Vol. 1, Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press (1948), 367.
    • 7 Hook, James William, Lieut. Samuel Smith, His Children and One Line of Descendants and Related Families, New Haven, Connecticut: Unknown (1953), 1-13.
    • 8 Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 577, 732.
    • 9 Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 175, 203, 214.

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