Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Josephine Harres

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• • 3rd Generation — Grandmother of Amelia Earhart
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • Gephard Harres   
  • Mother:
  • Maria G. -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1837 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • Feb 1912 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Atchison Co., Kansas 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Alfred Gideon Otis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Apr 1862 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania 
  • Child:

  Amelia "Amy" Otis (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Amelia Josephine Harres

  • ¹ Federal Census , KS, Atchison County, 1910, Atchison Ward 2, E.D. 3, Sheet 14A, Image 27 of 41, Ancestry.com (Online Census Images).
  • ² Federal Census , KS, Atchison County, 1900, Atchison Ward 2, E.D. 3, Sheet 10B, Image 20 of 28, Ancestry.com (Online Census Images).
  • ³ Federal Census , KS, Atchison County, 1880, Atchison, E.D. 2, p. 9, Image 9 of 71, Ancestry.com (Online Census Images).
  • ⁴ Federal Census , KS, Atchison, 1870, Atchison Ward 2, p. 9, Image 9 of 38, Ancestry.com (Online Census Images).
  • ⁵ Find A Grave , (accessed 07/30/2015).
  • ⁶ Genealogical and Biographical Record of North-Eastern Kansas , Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1900) , 36, 39, Google Books (Digital Library).
  • ⁷ Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013 , Marriage record for Alfred G Otis and Amelia Harres, Ancestry.com (Online Database).
  • ⁸ Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum , "Home as a Birthplace" , (accessed 07/30/2015).
  • ⁹ Otis, William A. , A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America , Chicago: Unknown (1924) , 427, Ancestry.com (Online Database).
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd , "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogica l Tribute with 50 New . . ." , (accessed 07/06/2017).
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd , The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Fa milies on the Mayflower , Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020) , 490.
  • ¹² Wikipedia , "Amelia Earhart" , (accessed 07/30/2015).

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