Ancestry of
Buzz Aldrin

Apollo 11 Astronaut

Esther E. Thompson

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• • Great-grandmother of Buzz Aldrin — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 15 
  • Father:
  • Robert Thompson 
  • Mother:
  • Leathy Cross   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1838 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ohio 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Apr 1887 
  • Death Location:
  • Joliet, Will, Illinois 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lanson Everett Ross
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Nov 1856 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dwight, Livingston, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Jessie Elizabeth Ross (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give Esther Thompson's birth location as Dwight, Livingston, Illinois.

• Sources for Esther E. Thompson

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestors #A057742.
  • ² Federal Census, IL, Will County, 1870, Joliet, p. 51, Image 51 of 74.
  • ³ Federal Census, OH, Guernsey County, 1850, Oxford, Image 32 of 40.
  • ⁴ Germanna Foundation Database of Descendants, ID-I057470, Record for Esther Thompson, incorrectly give birth location as Dwight, Illinois.
  • ⁵ Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, Marriage record for Lanson E Ross and Esther Thompson.
  • ⁶ Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois: Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches . . ., Chicago: Chapman Bros. (1890), 401-402, gives Esther's death date as NOV 1887.