Ancestry of
Ethan Hawke

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Novelist

Sylvanus Cornell

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Ethan Hawke — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 82 
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  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Jul 1797 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canada 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Oct 1879 
  • Death Location:
  • Warren County, Ohio 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Flora
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Nov 1816 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Warren County, Ohio 
  • Child:

  Sarah Jane Cornell (Ahnentafel No:41 )

  • Notes: 

  • I recreation of his will submitted to probate in Greene County, Ohio, has Sylvanus asking to be buried next to his first wife Sarah.

• Sources for Sylvanus Cornell

  • ¹ Federal Census, OH, Warren County, 1860, Wayne, p. 49, Image 25 of 54.
  • ² Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Marriage record for Sylvanus Cornell and Sarah Flour.
  • ³ Ohio, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998, Probate file for Sylvanus Cornell.
  • ⁴ Portrait and Biographical Album of Greene and Clark Counties, Ohio: Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical . . ., Chicago: Chapman Bros. (1890), 660.
  • ⁵ The History of Warren County, Ohio: Containing A History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Schools, Churches . . ., Chicago: W. H. Beers and Co. (1882), 571, 578.
  • ⁶ Broadstone, Michael A., History of Greene County, Ohio: Its People, Industries and Institutions, Vol. 2, Part 2, Indianapolis, Indiana: B. F. Bowen and Company (1918), 517.

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