Ancestry of
John Wayne

Movie Actor

Wealthy Chase "Weltha" Parsons

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• • Grandmother of John Wayne — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Henry Charles Parsons 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Buck   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Sep 1850 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sumner Township, Warren, Illinois 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Jan 1909 
  • Death Location:
  • Des Moines, Polk Co., Iowa 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Little York Cemetery, Little York, Warren, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Marion Mitchell Morrison
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Nov 1869 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Warren County, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Clyde Leonard Morrison (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Wealthy Chase "Weltha" Parsons

  • ¹ California, County Marriages, 1850-1953, Marriage record for son Clyde L. Morrison and Florence R. Buck.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/04/2013).
  • ³ Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940, Marriage record for Marion M. Morrison and Wealthy C. Parsons.
  • ⁴ Parsons, Gerald James, The Parsons Family: Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons . . . Through His Grandson Jonathan Parsons (1693-1782), Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (1984), 153, 197.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 118.
  • 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), 641.
  • ⁷ Shepherd, Donald and Robert Slatzer, Duke: The Life and Times of John Wayne, New York: Citadel Press Books (1985), 17-18.