Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Amelia Mary Earhart

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Edwin Stanton Earhart 
  • Mother:
  • Amelia "Amy" Otis   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Jul 1897 
  • Birth Location:
  • Atchison, Atchison Co., Kansas 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 2 Jul 1937 to 5 Jan 1939 
  • Death Location:
  • Pacific Ocean 
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  • Notes: 

  • Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, while attempting to circumnavigate around the globe. On January 5, 1939, she was declared legally dead.

• Marriages for Amelia Mary Earhart

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  • Spouse:
  • George Palmer Putnam
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Feb 1931
  • Marriage Location:
  • Noank, New London, Connecticut

• Sources for Amelia Mary Earhart

  • ¹ Altoona Tribune (Altoona, Pennsylvania), 24 SEP 1930, p. 2, Obituary for father Edwin S. Earhart.
  • ² Federal Census, IA, Polk County, 1910, Des Moines Ward 3, E.D. 111, Sheet 7B, Image 14 of 17.
  • ³ Federal Census, KS, Wyandotte County, 1900, Kansas City Ward 4, E.D. 157, Sheet 8A, Image 15 of 29.
  • ⁴ Reading Times (Reading, Pennsylvania), 09 FEB 1931, p. 1, "Amelia Remains Amelia Despite Her Marriage".
  • ⁵ The Indiana Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania), 30 OCT 1962, p. 1, Obituary for mother Amy Otis Earhart.
  • ⁶ Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, "Home as a Birthplace", (accessed 07/30/2015).
  • ⁷ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 562.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "No. 58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with . . .", (accessed 07/06/2017).
  • 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), 490.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Amelia Earhart", (accessed 07/30/2015).

Amelia Earhart photo by Pacific Aviation Museum (CC BY 2.0)