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John Wayne

Movie Actor

Medad Parsons

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of John Wayne — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 40 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Parsons 
  • Mother:
  • Sabra Spencer   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Aug 1754 
  • Birth Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Apr 1818 
  • Death Location:
  • Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • North Fairfax-Beeman Cemetery, Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Wealthy Chase
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 12 Jun 1787 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Eldad Parsons (Ahnentafel No:20 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources claim Medad Parsons married Polly Robinson as his second wife. It is believed that they confused her with the wife of his son Medad Parsons, Jr.

• Additional marriages for Medad Parsons

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  • Spouse:
  • Sibbel Harmon

• Sources for Medad Parsons

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 201, Birth record for Medad Parsons.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/20/2015).
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1950, Vol. 26, p. 72.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1956, Vol. 32, p. 242.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1951, Vol. 27, p. 60.
  • ⁶ Parsons, Gerald James, The Parsons Family: Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons . . . Through His Grandson Jonathan Parsons (1693-1782), Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (1984), 77, 95-97.