Ancestry of
Amy Adams

Movie Actress

Lydia Sheldon

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Amy Adams — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 183 
  • Father:
  • Phinehas Sheldon 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Harmon   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Dec 1759 
  • Birth Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 May 1846 
  • Death Location:
  • Dorset, Bennington, Vermont 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, Bennington, Vermont 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Cephas Kent
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Jan 1779 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dorset, Bennington, Vermont 
  • Children:
  
  

  Lucinda Kent (Ahnentafel No:91 )

  Beulah Kent

• Sources for Lydia Sheldon

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 247, Birth record for Lydia Sheldon.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A064970.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/07/2018).
  • ⁴ Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848, Membership record for the family of Lucinda Kent.
  • ⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National No. 24389, Membership application for Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
  • ⁶ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National No. 43610, Membership application for Horace Burton Pomeroy.
  • ⁷ Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908, Birth record for daughter Lusinda Kent.
  • ⁸ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Marriage record for Cephas Kent and Lydia Sheldon.
  • ⁹ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Deaths I-J-K to 1871, p. 7926, Death record for Lydia Kent.

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