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Keziah Barr

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Bill Nye — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 35 
  • Father:
  • (probable) David Barr 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Kezia Cannon   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Jul 1774 
  • Birth Location:
  • Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Feb 1851 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oakwood Cemetery, Eaton Rapids, Eaton, Michigan 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Luther Blodgett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Mar 1800 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rowe,Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Polly Blodgett (Ahnentafel No:17 )

  Luther Blodgett

  • Notes: 

  • Keziah Barr's parentage is based on circumstantial evidence. She appears to be named after her mother Kezia (Cannon) Barr. Also, she was married in Elba, New York, the same town that her brother Cornelius Barr lived and died in. He appears to have been named for their maternal grandfather Cornelius Cannon. Her brother's family appears to be the only Barr family in Elba at the time and may explain why his sister Keziah was there at the time of her marriage. More evidence is needed to confirm Keziah's parentage.

• Sources for Keziah Barr

  • ¹ Federal Census, MI, Eaton County, 1850, Eaton Rapids, Image 25 of 38.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/26/2023).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowe, Vol. 1, pp. 151, 169, 183, Marriage of Luther Blodget and Cuziah Barr.
  • ⁴ Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908, Birth record for daughter Polly Blodgett.
  • ⁵ Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908, Birth record for son Luther Blodget.
  • ⁶ Thompson, Bradley Deforest and Franklin Condit Thompson, Blodget-Blodgett Descendants of Thomas of Cambridge, Concord, New Hampshire: Typed manuscript (1955), 139.