Ancestry of
Burl Ives

Singer and Actor

Levi Franklin Ives

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• • Father of Burl Ives — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • William Riley Ives 
  • Mother:
  • Charlotte Josephine Ordway   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Feb 1880 
  • Birth Location:
  • Blair Township, Clay, Illinois 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Feb 1947 
  • Death Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mound Cemetery, Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Cordellia White
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jun 1898 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Clay County, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Levi Franklin Ives appears as James Ives in the 1880 federal census.

• Sources for Levi Franklin Ives

  • ¹ Federal Census, IL, Jasper County, 1910, Hunt, E.D. 82, Sheet 4A, Image 8 of 24.
  • ² Federal Census, IL, Jasper County, 1920, Hunt City, E.D. 103, Sheet 1B, Image 2 of 20.
  • ³ Federal Census, IL, Jasper County, 1930, Hunt City, E.D. 40-7, Sheet 5B, Image 10 of 14.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, IL, Jasper County, 1900, Willow Hill, E.D. 106, Sheet 9B, Image 18 of 26.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/19/2018).
  • ⁶ Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940, Marriage record for Franklin Ives and Corda Dell White.
  • ⁷ Illinois, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900, Marriage record for Franklin Ives and Corda Dell White.
  • ⁸ Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, Death record for Frank L Ives.
  • ⁹ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Claim record for son Burl Icle Ives.
  • ¹⁰ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Application for Levi Franklin Ives.
  • ¹¹ U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Draft registration for Levi Franklin Ives.
  • ¹² U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, Draft registration for Levi Franklin Ives.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 287.
  • ¹⁴ Wikipedia, "Burl Ives", (accessed 11/19/2018).