Ancestry of
Elizabeth Smart

Founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation

Esther Ellis

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Elizabeth Smart — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 243 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Ellis III 
  • Mother:
  • Melatiah Metcalf   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Apr 1758 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wrentham, Nortolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Hills
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1780 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Franklin, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Julia Hills (Ahnentafel No:121 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Enoch Forbush
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Jan 1793

• Sources for Esther Ellis

  • ¹ Iowa, U.S., Pottawattamie County, Annotated Record of US Census, 1850, Record for daughter Julia Hills.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Upton, Vol. 1, p. 31, Birth record for daughter Julia Hills.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Franklin, Vol. 1, p. 89, Marriage record for Joseph Hills and Esther Ellis.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Wrentham, Vol. 1, p. 66, Birth record for Esther Ellis.
  • ⁵ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 540.
  • ⁶ Gardner, Loni, The Benjamin Franklin Johnson Family: A Royal Legacy, Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University (2010), 68.
  • ⁷ Johnson, Milas Edgar and Rolla Virgil Johnson, The Johnson Pioneers of the West, [Reno, Nevada]: Typed manuscript (1984), 1.

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