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Johnny Carson

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James Grant Hook

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Johnny Carson — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Hook 
  • Mother:
  • Annzube Grant   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Sep 1805 
  • Birth Location:
  • Greene County, Pennsylvania 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Sep 1884 
  • Death Location:
  • Wapello County, Iowa 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Martinsburg Cemetery, Competine, Wapello, Iowa 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah C. Lyle
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Mar 1828 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  William Hook (Ahnentafel No:12 )

• Sources for James Grant Hook

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A057624.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/20/2018).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, p. 73.
  • ⁴ Hook, James William, James Hook and Virginia Eller: A Family History and Genealogy, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1925), 74-76, 79-81, 101.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 126.
  • ⁶ 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.