Ancestry of
John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Ruth Emery

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of John Steinbeck — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 189 
  • Father:
  • John Emery III 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Sawyer   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1690 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Nov 1735 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ezekiel Hale
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1711 
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  • Child:

  Ezekiel Hale Jr. (Ahnentafel No:94 )

• Sources for Ruth Emery

  • ¹ Essex Antiquarian, 1897, Vol. 1, p. 118.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 609, Death record for Ruth Hale.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1926, Vol. 80, p. 96.
  • ⁴ Jackson, James R., ed., History of Littleton, New Hampshire, Vol. 3, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press (1905), 242.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/16/2014).