Ancestry of
Alexandra Breckenridge

TV and Movie Actress

Sophie Earle Sharpe

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• • Great-grandmother of Alexandra Breckenridge — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • William Wickham Sharpe 
  • Mother:
  • Carrie Ida Gamble   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 May 1899 
  • Birth Location:
  • St. Louis, Missouri 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Dec 1979 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington Co., Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Leland Davis Breckenridge
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Sep 1929 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Miami, Dade, Florida 
  • Child:

  Leland Davis Breckenridge Jr. (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some records give Sophie Sharpe's birthdate as 20 MAY 1903, but other record indicate it was in 1899. Early census records support the latter date.

• Additional marriages for Sophie Earle Sharpe

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  • Spouse:
  • William H. Barton
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 2 Aug 1920
  • Marriage Location:
  • Clark County, Indiana

• Sources for Sophie Earle Sharpe

  • ¹ Federal Census, KY, Jefferson County, 1920, Louisville Ward 7, E.D. 135, Sheet 9B, Image 18 of 36.
  • ² Federal Census, TN, Shelby County, 1910, Memphis Ward 23, E.D. 257, Sheet 6B, Image 11 of 13.
  • ³ Federal Census, TN, Shelby County, 1900, Memphis Ward 4, E.D. 68, Sheet 5A, Image 9 of 21.
  • ⁴ Florida Marriages, 1830-1993, Marriage certificate for Leland Davis Breckenridge and Sophie Sharpe Barton.
  • ⁵ Florida, U.S., Marriage Indexes, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001, Marriage record for Leland Davis Breckenridge and Sophie Sharpe Barton.
  • ⁶ Florida, U.S., State Census, 1867-1945, 1935, Dade County, Precinct 62, Image 19 of 52.
  • ⁷ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/31/2016).
  • ⁸ Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019, Marriage license for William H Barton and Sophie E Sharpe.
  • ⁹ Missouri, U.S., Birth Registers, 1847-2002, Birth record for Sophie Earle Sharpe.
  • ¹⁰ U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962, Burial record for spouse Leland Davis Breckenridge.
  • ¹¹ U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca. 1775-2006, Burial record for Sophie S Breckenridge.
  • ¹² U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Death record for Sophie Breckenridge.
  • ¹³ Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, Death certificate for spouse Leland Davis Breckenridge.
  • ¹⁴ Seekamp, Alwin and Roger Burlingame, eds., Who's Who in Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky: The Louisville Press Club (1912), 200.

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