Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Sophia Johnson

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Anderson Cooper — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 49 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Johnson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 May 1795 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Aug 1868 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp (Staten Island), Richmond, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Nov 1813 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Tottenville, Staten Island, New York 
  • Child:

  William Henry Vanderbilt (Ahnentafel No:24 )

• Sources for Sophia Johnson

  • ¹ American Biographical Library, Entry for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/01/2014).
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 22.
  • ⁴ Effingham de Forest, Louis, ed., Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, New York: Printed by order of the Society (1923), 47.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Cornelius Vanderbilt", (accessed 12/01/2014).

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