Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Chevy Chase — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • James Metcalfe 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Dabney Shackelford   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Apr 1822 
  • Birth Location:
  • Madisonville, Hopkins, Kentucky 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Jan 1906 
  • Death Location:
  • St. Louis, Missouri 
  • Burial Date:
  • 2 Feb 1906 
  • Burial Location:
  • Alton Cemetery, Alton, Madison, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Tennery Baker
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Feb 1848 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Madison County, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Grace Metcalfe (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  • Notes: 

  • Mayor of Alton, Illinois

• Sources for Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe

  • ¹ Alton Evening Telegraph (Alton, Illinois), 02 FEB 1906, Obituary for Col. Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe.
  • ² Federal Census, MO, St. Louis County, 1900, Central, E.D. 120, Sheet 31A, Image 61 of 67.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/29/2015).
  • ⁴ Illinois, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1791-1850, Marriage record for Lynde S. Metcalf and Sarah T. Baker.
  • ⁵ Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, Death record for daughter Grace Metcalfe Chase.
  • ⁶ Barns, Chancy Rufus, The Commonwealth of Missouri: A Centennial Record, St. Louis: Bryan, Brand and Co., Publishers (1877), 686-689.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 312.

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