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Janis Joplin

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Lucy Gunn

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Janis Joplin — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 227 
  • Father:
  • John Gunn 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Root   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Apr 1757 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Dec 1790 
  • Death Location:
  • Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old South Cemetery, Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Asahel Gunn Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Sep 1776 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Persis Gunn (Ahnentafel No:113 )

• Sources for Lucy Gunn

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A048371.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/12/2016).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Montague, Vol. 1, p. 137, Death record for Lucy Gunn.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Montague, Vol. 1, p. 79, Marriage record for Asahell Gunn and Lucy Gunn.
  • ⁵ Root, James Pierce, Root Genealogical Records, 1600-1870: Comprising the General History of the Root and Roots Families in America, New York: R.C. Root, Anthony and Co. (1870), 128.
  • ⁶ Smith, John Montague, et. al., History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1673-1899: Which Originally Embraced Within Its Limits the . . ., Greenfield, Massachusetts: Press of E. A. Hall and Company (1899), 384-385.