Ancestry of
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

American “Fireside” Poet

Sarah Wendell

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• • Mother of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Oliver Wendell 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Jackson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Dec 1768 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Aug 1862 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abiel Holmes
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 29 Aug 1795 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Sarah Wendell

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/19/2016).
  • ² Dudley, Dean, History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 7, Wakefield, Massachusetts: A.W. Brownell, Printer (1892), 780.
  • ³ Dudley, Dean, History of the Dudley Family: With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c., Number 8, Wakefield, Massachusetts: A. W. Brownell, Printer (1893), 860.
  • ⁴ Gray, George Arthur, The Descendants of George Holmes of Roxbury, 1594-1908, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1908), 351-352.
  • ⁵ Kennedy, William Sloane, Oliver Wendell Holmes: Poet, Littérateur, Scientist, Boston: S. E. Cassino and Company (1883), 13, 19.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 182.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Abiel Holmes", (accessed 12/17/2016).