Ancestry of
Allen Dulles

5th Director of the C.I.A.

Alexander McFerson

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• • Great-grandfather of Allen Dulles — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1817 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jun 1845 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, Washington, Indiana 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eliza Jane Read
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Sep 1839 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Urbana, Champaign, Ohio 
  • Child:

  Mary Parke McFerson (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • The Rev. Alexander McFerson died from a violent cold he caught after riding 10 miles in a snow storm on his way to a preaching engagement.

• Sources for Alexander McFerson

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A094220.
  • ² The Midland Monthly, 1895, Vol. 4, p. 534.
  • ³ United States Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934, Widow's pension for spouse Eliza Jane McFerson.
  • ⁴ Washington, D.C., U.S., Select Deaths and Burials Index, 1769-1960, Death record for daughter Mary Parke Foster.
  • ⁵ Reilly, Mary French, History of the Walnut Street Church: Sketches of Its Pastors, Elders and Prominent Members . . ., Evansville, Indiana: The Courier Co. (1891), 119.