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Janis Joplin

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Asahel Gunn

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Janis Joplin — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 452 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Gunn 
  • Mother:
  • Esther Belding   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1730 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jul 1796 
  • Death Location:
  • Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old South Cemetery, Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thankful Marsh
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Nov 1751 
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  • Child:

  Asahel Gunn Jr. (Ahnentafel No:226 )

• Sources for Asahel Gunn

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/13/2015).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Montague, Vol. 1, p. 135, Death record for Asahel Gunn.
  • ³ Marsh, Dwight Whitney, Marsh Genealogy: Giving Several Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct., 1636-1895, Amherst, Massachusetts: Press of Carpenter and Morehouse (1895), 232.
  • ⁴ 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), 385.