Ancestry of
Jodie Foster

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Alfred Eddy

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Jodie Foster — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 38 
  • Father:
  • David Eddy 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Shaw   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Mar 1815 
  • Birth Location:
  • Marion, Wayne, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Mar 1883 
  • Death Location:
  • Niles, Berrien, Michigan 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles, Berrien, Michigan 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Catharine Harriet Wilcox
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Sep 1839 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Holley, Orleans, New York 
  • Child:

  Katherine Louise Eddy (Ahnentafel No:19 )

• Sources for Alfred Eddy

  • ¹ Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 07 AUG 1910, p. 6, Obituary for daughter Mrs. Lucius G. Fisher.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A035940.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/29/2015).
  • ⁴ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 14, New York: James T. White and Company (1910), 120.
  • ⁵ Eddy, Ruth Story Devereux, The Eddy Family in America, Boston: T. O. Metcalf Company (1930), 258, 416-417.
  • ⁶ Harrison, Mitchell C., Prominent and Progressive Americans: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography, Vol. 1, New York: New York Tribune (1902), 117.
  • ⁷ Hughes, Thomas Patrick and Frank Munsell, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 11, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1898), 30.
  • ⁸ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: Hammond Press (1901), 299.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 333.

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