Ancestry of
Billie Jean King

Pro-Tennis Champion

Blanche Gertrude "Gammie" Leighton

View famous kin of Blanche Gertrude Leighton

• • Grandmother of Billie Jean King — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth S. "Lizzie" Campbell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Mar 1897 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Aug 1981 
  • Death Location:
  • Los Angeles County, California 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Willis Durkee Moffitt Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1914 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Silver Bow County, Montana 
  • Child:

  Willis Jefferson "Bill" Moffitt (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Blanche Leighton was adopted. Her birth name was Hazel Campbell. Her birth record lists her mother's name and place of birth, but no father is listed. Her adoptive parents were Jefferson J. Leighton and Georgia E. Wright.

• Sources for Blanche Gertrude "Gammie" Leighton

  • ¹ California, County Marriages, 1850-1953, Marriage certificate for son Willis Jefferson Moffitt and Mildred Rose Jerman.
  • ² California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997, Death record for Blanche G Moffitt.
  • ³ Federal Census, MT, Park County, 1920, Livingson Ward 1, E.D. 81, Sheet 5A, Image 9 of 33.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, MT, Park County, 1930, Livingston, E.D. 34-4, Sheet 13B, Image 26 of 46.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Boston, Vol. 468, p. 121, Birth record for Blanche Leighton (originally unnamed Campbell).
  • ⁶ Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1987, Marriage certificate for Willis D Moffitt and Blanche G. Leighton.
  • ⁷ Montana, U.S., Birth Records, 1897-1988, Birth certificate for son Willis Jefferson Moffitt.
  • ⁸ Montana, U.S., County Births and Deaths, 1830-2011, Death certificate for spouse Willis Durkee Moffitt.
  • ⁹ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Application for Blanche Gertrude Moffitt.
  • ¹⁰ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Claim record for son Willis Jefferson Moffitt.
  • ¹¹ PBS Television, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 30 SEP 2014, Season 2, Episode 2, Billie Jean King.

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