Ancestry of
Jodie Foster

Movie Actress

Sarah Wheeler

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Jodie Foster — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1265 
  • Father:
  • David Wheeler 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Wythe   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1651 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Oct 1732 
  • Death Location:
  • Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Riverview Cemetery, Groveland, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Spaford Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Mar 1675 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Spofford

  Jonathan Spafford (Ahnentafel No:632 )

  Martha Spofford

• Additional marriages for Sarah Wheeler

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  • Spouse:
  • Caleb Hopkinson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Jun 1701
  • Marriage Location:
  • Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Sarah Wheeler

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/20/2013).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 426, Marriage for John Spoferd and Sarah Wheeler.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 317, Marriage intention for Caleb Hopkinson and widow Sarah Spoford.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bradford, Vol. 1, p. 226, Marriage for Caleb Hopkinson and widow Sarah Spofford.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Bradford, Vol. 1, p. 329, Death record for Sarah Hopkinson.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 203, Birth record for daughter Martha Spofford.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1854, Vol. 8, p. 340.
  • ⁸ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 442.
  • ¹⁰ Spofford, Dr. Jeremiah and Aphia T. Spofford, A Genealogical Record, Including Two Generations in Female Lines . . . Descendants of John Spofford and Elizabeth Scott, Boston: Alfred Mudge and Son (1888), 39.
  • ¹¹ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy (1914), 396.

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