Ancestry of
Jeb Bush

43rd Governor of Florida

James Smith Bush

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Jeb Bush — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Obadiah Newcomb Bush 
  • Mother:
  • Harriet B Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Jun 1825 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rochester, Monroe, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Nov 1889 
  • Death Location:
  • Ithaca, Tompkins, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Harriet Eleanor Fay
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Feb 1859 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Trinity Church, New York, New York 
  • Child:

  Samuel Prescott Bush (Ahnentafel No:8 )

• Additional marriages for James Smith Bush

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Freeman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1851

• Sources for James Smith Bush

  • ¹ Child, Christopher C., "Coolidge Connections", Vita Brevis, https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/02/coolidge-connections/, (accessed 06/23/2023).
  • ² Fay, Orlin P., Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants, Cleveland, Ohio: Press of J. B. Savage (1898), 103.
  • ³ Pierce, Edward Lillie, Major John Lillie, 1755-1801: The Lillie Family of Boston, 1663-1896, Cambridge: John Wilson and Son (1896), 110.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 420, 434, 436, 443, 857.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 429, 431, 435, 452-453, 455-457, 460, 462, 470, 482, 489, 496-500, 502, 505, 509, 662.
  • ⁶ Rountree, Clarke, George W. Bush: A Biography, Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Biographies (2011), 4.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "James Smith Bush", (accessed 05/15/2010), [Birth].
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "James Smith Bush", (accessed 05/15/2010), [Death].