Ancestry of
Henry David Thoreau

American Author and Poet

Henry David Thoreau

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • John Thoreau Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Cynthia Dunbar   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Jul 1817 
  • Birth Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 May 1862 
  • Death Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MIddlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • American author and poet

• Sources for Henry David Thoreau

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/09/2018).
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 87, 174.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 169.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Henry David Thoreau", (accessed 01/29/2015).