Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Edith Ward

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Anderson Cooper — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 425 
  • Father:
  • John Ward 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah -----   
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Jan 1736/1737 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Quakers Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Claypoole
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Apr 1716 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Christ Church, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
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  James Claypoole (Ahnentafel No:212 )

  Edith Claypoole

• Sources for Edith Ward

  • ¹ Christ Church in Philadelphia (Historical Collections Online), Book 1709-1800, p. 4026, Marriage record for Jos. Claypoole and Edith Ward.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 25.
  • ³ Bracken, Evelyn Claypool, The Claypoole Family in America, Vol. 1, Indiana, Pennsylvania: Typewritten Manuscript (1971), 13, 48.
  • ⁴ 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), 161.
  • ⁵ Graff, Rebecca Irwin, Genealogy of the Claypoole Family of Philadelphia 1588-1893, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1893), 62-63.

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