Ancestry of
Ken Burns

Documentary Filmmaker

Alice Jane Sherman

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Ken Burns — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 193 
  • Father:
  • Salisbury Sherman 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Tisdale   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Aug 1755 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1822 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eldad Tupper
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 1 Oct 1774 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Lemuel Tupper (Ahnentafel No:96 )

  • Notes: 

  • Alice Jane Sherman's given name is also seen as Elsie.

• Sources for Alice Jane Sherman

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth, Vol. 1, p. 219, Birth record for Alice Shearman.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1945, Vol. 99, p. 295.
  • ³ Sherman, Roy V., Some of the Descendants of Philip Sherman, the First Secretary of Rhode Island, Akron, Ohio: Unknown (1968), 199.
  • ⁴ Tupper, Eleanor, Ph.D., Tupper Genealogy 1578-1971, North Conway, New Hampshire: The Reporter Press (1972), 61-63.

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