Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Isaac Otis

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• • Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • Ephraim Otis 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Cornell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Sep 1798 
  • Birth Location:
  • Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Mar 1853 
  • Death Location:
  • Prairieville, Barry, Michigan 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Prairie Home Cemetery, Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Caroline Abigail Curtis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jan 1827 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Little York, Homer, Courtland, New York 
  • Child:

  Alfred Gideon Otis (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Sources for Isaac Otis

  • ¹ Federal Census, MI, Barry County, 1850, Prairieville, Image 5 of 14.
  • ² Genealogical and Biographical Record of North-Eastern Kansas, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1900), 27, 40.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/30/2015).
  • ⁴ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 281-282.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/06/2017).
  • ⁶ 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.

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