Ancestry of
Carole Lombard

Movie Actress

James Cheney

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• • Great-grandfather of Carole Lombard — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • Roswell Cheney 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Willard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Dec 1817 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sutton, Caledonia, Vermont 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Dec 1903 
  • Death Location:
  • Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Cass, Indiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy B. Evans
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1844 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Helen Cheney

  Alice S. Cheney (Ahnentafel No:7 )

• Sources for James Cheney

  • ¹ Federal Census, OH, Defiance County, 1850, Richland, Image 8 of 18.
  • ² Federal Census, IN, Cass County, 1860, Eel, p. 10, Image 46 of 86.
  • ³ Federal Census, IN, Cass County, 1870, Logansport, p. 29, Image 151 of 224.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, OH, Defiance County, 1880, Richland, E.D. 231, p. 38, Image 38 of 38.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, IN, Allen County, 1900, Washington, E.D. 20, Sheet 2B, Image 4 of 30.
  • ⁶ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/02/2016).
  • ⁷ Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911, Marriage record for Chas. S. Knight and daughter Alice S. Cheeney.
  • ⁸ Cutter, William R., American Biography: A New Cyclopedia, Vol. 52, New York: American Historical Society (1932), 89.
  • ⁹ Dunn, Jacob Piatt, Memorial and Genealogical Record of Representative Citizens of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen and Company (1912), 769-775.
  • ¹⁰ Griswold, Bert Joseph and Mrs. Samuel R. Taylor, The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, Indiana: A Review of Two Centuries of Occupation of the Region . . ., Volume 2, Chicago: Robert O. Law Company (1917), 338-339.
  • ¹¹ Pope, Charles Henry, The Cheney Genealogy, Boston, Massachusetts: The Barta Press (1897), 419, 501.