Ancestry of
Ginger Rogers

Movie Actress, Dancer, and Singer

Lela Emogene Owens

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• • Mother of Ginger Rogers — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Walter Winfield Owens 
  • Mother:
  • Sophronia W. Ball   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Dec 1890 
  • Birth Location:
  • Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 May 1977 
  • Death Location:
  • Riverside County, California 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oakwood Memorial Park, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Eddins McMath
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Dec 1908 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salt Lake, Salt Lake Co., Utah 
  • Child:

  Virginia Katherine McMath (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • aka Lela Owens Leibrand

• Additional marriages for Lela Emogene Owens

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  • Spouse:
  • Marc Edmund Jones
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 27 Aug 1918
  • Marriage Location:
  • Manhattan, New York, New York

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  • Spouse:
  • John Logan Rogers
  • Marriage Date:
  • from Jun 1922 to 1924

• Sources for Lela Emogene Owens

  • ¹ California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997, Death record for Lela E Rogers.
  • ² Federal Census, IA, Marshall County, 1900, Marshall, E.D. 123, Sheet 17B, Image 34 of 36.
  • ³ Federal Census, MO, Jackson County, 1920, Kansas City Ward 7, E.D. 115, Sheet 17A, Image 33 of 44.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/13/2014).
  • ⁵ New York City, Marriage Indexes, 1907-1995, Marriage record for Marc E. Jones and Lela Leibrand.
  • ⁶ New York, U.S., Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919, WWI Marine Card for Lela Emogene Leibrand.
  • ⁷ U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1798-1958, DEC 1922, Muster record for Lela E. Leibrand.
  • ⁸ U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995, Fort Worth, TX, City Directory, 1924, p. 941.
  • ⁹ Utah, U.S., Select County Marriages, 1887-1937, Marriage record for William E. McMath and Lela E. Owens.
  • ¹⁰ Western States Marriage Record Index, Marriage record for William E. McMath and Lela E. Owens.
  • ¹¹ D'Agostino, Annette M., Filmmakers in The Moving Picture World: An Index of Articles, 1907-1927, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland (1997), 185, 211.
  • ¹² Mid-Continent Public Library, Midwest Genealogy Center: Newsbytes, July 2011, Vol. 7, Iss. 7, p. 1.
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Ginger Rogers", (accessed 04/07/2011).