Ancestry of
Ellen DeGeneres

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Elizabeth Spencer

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Ellen DeGeneres — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 139 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Spencer Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Clark   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Mar 1772 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Feb 1847 
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  • Burial Location:
  • River View Cemetery, Essex, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathan Pratt
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Jan 1796 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Centerbrook, Essex, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth Pratt (Ahnentafel No:69 )

• Sources for Elizabeth Spencer

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/11/2015).
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1953, Vol. 29, p. 175.
  • ³ Chapman, Rev. Frederick W., The Pratt Family: Or the Descendants of Lieut. William Pratt, One of the First Settlers of Hartford and Say-Brook . . ., Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Company (1864), 99.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 355.
  • ⁵ Whittemore, Bernard Bemis, A Genealogy of Several Branches of the Whittemore Family: Including the Original Whittemore Family of . . ., Nashua, New Hampshire: Francis P. Whittemore, Book and Job Printer (1890), 80.

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