Ancestry of
J. K. Simmons

TV and Movie Actor

Obed Meredith

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of J. K. Simmons — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 206 
  • Father:
  • Job Meredith 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Whitaker   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 May 1769 
  • Birth Location:
  • Kent County, Delaware 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 May 1814 
  • Death Location:
  • Coshocton County, Ohio 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Draper
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1792 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Kent County, Delaware 
  • Child:

  Maryan Meredith (Ahnentafel No:103 )

• Sources for Obed Meredith

  • ¹ Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio: Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive . . ., Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co. (1892), 424.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A077580.
  • ³ Hill, N. N., Jr., History of Coshocton County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, 1740-1881, Newark, Ohio: A. A. Graham and Co., Publishers (1881), 745.

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