Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Mary Ward

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Anderson Cooper — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 217 
  • Father:
  • Richard Ward 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Tillinghast   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Dec 1713 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 May 1781 
  • Death Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ebenezer Flagg
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Feb 1741 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Child:

  Henry Collins Flagg (Ahnentafel No:108 )

• Sources for Mary Ward

  • ¹ Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol. III, p. 324, Image 336 of 1047.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 25.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2009, Vol. 163, p. 26.
  • ⁴ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #26043, Application for Charles Noel Flagg.
  • ⁵ Flagg, Norman Gershom and Lucius C. S. Flagg, Family Records of the Descendants of Gershom Flagg (Born 1730) of Lancaster, Massachusetts . . ., Quincy, Illinois: Cadogan-Hatcher Mfg. Co., Printers and Binders (1907), 134.
  • ⁶ Tillinghast, Rose C., The Tillinghast Family 1560-1971, Unknown: Unknown (1972), 13.

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