Ancestry of
Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

Sarah Tennery Baker

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Chevy Chase — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 19 
  • Father:
  • David Jewett Baker 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Tennery Fairchild   
  • Birth Date:
  • Sep 1827 
  • Birth Location:
  • Kaskaskia, Randolph, Illinois 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Dec 1906 
  • Death Location:
  • St. Ann's Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Alton Cemetery, Alton, Madison, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Feb 1848 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Madison County, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Grace Metcalfe (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Sources for Sarah Tennery Baker

  • ¹ Alton Evening Telegraph (Alton, Illinois), 22 DEC 1906, p. 3, Obituary for Sarah T. 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.
  • 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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