Ancestry of
Alexandra Breckenridge

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James Ennis Woodruff

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Alexandra Breckenridge — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 106 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Sep 1819 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 27 Sep 1854 to 28 Sep 1854 
  • Death Location:
  • at sea 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Frances Hedden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Aug 1838 
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  • Child:

  Sophia Earle Woodruff (Ahnentafel No:53 )

  • Notes: 

  • James E. Woodruff was a passenger aboard the steamer SS Arctic traveling from Liverpool to New York when it collided with the smaller SS Vesta on September 27, 1854. He was among the passengers that perished on that day and the following day. The captain of the SS Arctic survived the disaster and later wrote a letter describing his experience. He mentioned that he and several people managed to climb aboard a part of the paddle box. He states that about noon the next day a “Mr. S. M. Woodruff of New York was relieved by death.” He was probably referring to James Woodruff as he was the only Mr. Woodruff listed on the passenger list and he was a citizen of New York although he was a member of the firm Herring & Woodruff, of St. Louis.

• Sources for James Ennis Woodruff

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A054101.
  • ² Evening Post (New York, New York), 16 OCT 1854, p. 2, Obituary for James E. Woodruff.
  • ³ Muscatine Journal (Muscatine, Iowa), 21 OCT 1854, p. 3, Death of James E. Woodruff.
  • ⁴ Weekly News and Chronicle (London, England), 14 OCT 1854, p. 645, List of the SS Arctic Passengers.

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