Ancestry of
Ken Burns

Documentary Filmmaker

Lyla Smith Tupper

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• • Mother of Ken Burns — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • George Bancroft Tupper 
  • Mother:
  • Lyla Morris Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Nov 1923 
  • Birth Location:
  • Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1965 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Robert Kyle Burns Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 2 Apr 1940 
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  • Child:

  Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Lyla Smith Tupper

  • ¹ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1930, Chicago, E.D. 16-1893, Sheet 3B, Image 5 of 44.
  • ² Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1940, Chicago, E.D. 103-3198, Sheet 2A, Image 3 of 10.
  • ³ New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957, Queen Elizabeth, 31 AUG 1950 to 05 SEP 1950, Passenger Lyla T. Burns.
  • ⁴ West Virginia, Births Index, 1853-1969, Birth record for Lyla Smith Tupper.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Ken Burns", (accessed 09/15/2014).
  • ⁶ Zurawik, David, "Waking the Dead", The Baltimore Sun, 23 SEP 2007.

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