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Johnny Carson

TV Host - “The Tonight Show”

William Hook

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• • Great-grandfather of Johnny Carson — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • James Grant Hook 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah C. Lyle   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Aug 1832 
  • Birth Location:
  • Carroll County, Ohio 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Dec 1905 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Cynthia Saphronia Hopkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT Jun 1870 
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  • Child:

  George William Hook (Ahnentafel No:6 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Amy Clark
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 May 1853
  • Marriage Location:
  • Vinton County, Ohio

• Sources for William Hook

  • ¹ Federal Census, IA, Taylor County, 1900, Bedford, E.D. 115, Sheet 7B, Image 18 of 58.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, p. 73.
  • ³ Hook, James William, James Hook and Virginia Eller: A Family History and Genealogy, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1925), 80, 89-90.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 126.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 625.