Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Ephraim Otis

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Ephraim Otis Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Harris   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Dec 1772 
  • Birth Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 1850 
  • Death Location:
  • DeRuyter, Madison, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Cornell
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  • Child:

  Isaac Otis (Ahnentafel No:12 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca Underhill

• Sources for Ephraim Otis

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A084813.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Scituate, Vol. 1, p. 280, Birth record for Ephraim Otis.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1850, Vol. 4, p. 151.
  • ⁴ Fales, De Coursey, The Fales Family of Bristol, Rhode Island: Ancestry of Haliburton Fales of New York, Boston, Massachusetts: T. R. Marvin and Son, Printers (1919), 201.
  • ⁵ Frost, Josephine C., Underhill Genealogy: Descendants of Capt. John Underhill, Vol. 2, Brooklyn, New York: Published privately by Myron C. Taylor in the interests of The Underhill Society of America (1932), 223.
  • ⁶ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 172-173.
  • ⁷ 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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