Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

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Abraham Evan Gwynne

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 26 
  • Father:
  • David Eli Gwynne 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Ann Claypoole   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Jun 1821 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jan 1855 
  • Death Location:
  • Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rachel Moore Flagg
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 May 1840 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Trinity Church, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Alice Claypoole Gwynne (Ahnentafel No:13 )

  • Notes: 

  • Abraham Gwynne's given name is also seen as Abram.

    Sources disagree on the marriage date for Abraham Gwynne and Rachel "Cettie" Flagg giving 13, 14 or 23 MAY 1840 as the date.

• Sources for Abraham Evan Gwynne

  • ¹ American Biographical Library, Entry for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
  • ² Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934, Death record for Abram Evan Gwynne.
  • ³ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A022878.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, OH, Hamilton County, 1850, Cincinnati Ward 1, Image 74 of 164.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/01/2014).
  • ⁶ Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol. III, p. 324, Image 336 of 1047.
  • ⁷ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 24.
  • ⁸ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1935, Vol. 89, p. 261.
  • ⁹ Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 162.
  • ¹⁰ Graff, Rebecca Irwin, Genealogy of the Claypoole Family of Philadelphia 1588-1893, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1893), 104.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/07/2017).
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 10.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 58.
  • ¹⁴ Wikipedia, "Alice Claypoole Gwynne", (accessed 12/01/2014).

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