Famous Kin of
Shannon Woodward

TV and Movie Actress

Click on the names below to see their relationship charts

Exclude: Great Migration Magna Carta Royalty

Edward Doty

(c1599 - 1655)
Mayflower passenger 1620

10th great-grandfather

Edmund Freeman

(1596 - 1682)
Abigail passenger 1635

11th great-grandfather

John Steele

(c1591 - 1664/5)
Great Migration Immigrant 1633

11th great-grandfather

Thomas Bliss

(c1590 - c1650/1)
Great Migration Immigrant 1639

11th great-grandfather

John Talcott

(c1594 - c1659/60)
Lyon passenger 1632

11th great-granduncle
via John Talcott Jr.

Edmund Sears

Boston Tea Party Participant

3rd cousin 9 times removed
via Edmund Freeman

Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene

American Revolution

3rd cousin 9 times removed
via Edmund Freeman

Daniel Henry Chamberlain

76th Governor of South Carolina

4th cousin 7 times removed
via William Chamberlain

Commodore Matthew C. Perry

Led Black Ships Expedition to Japan

4th cousin 8 times removed
via Edmund Freeman

Noah Webster

Published first American Dictionary

4th cousin 8 times removed
via John Steele

Oliver Hazard Perry

Hero of Lake Erie during the War of 1812

4th cousin 8 times removed
via Edmund Freeman

Eliphalet Remington

Founder of Remington Arms Company

5th cousin 6 times removed
via Edward Doty

Lizzie Doten

American Poet

5th cousin 6 times removed
via Edward Doty

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

5th cousin 7 times removed
via Thomas Bliss

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Lewis Henry Morgan

Pioneering Anthropologist

5th cousin 7 times removed
via John Steele

Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley

Founder of Aetna Insurance

5th cousin 7 times removed
via Thomas Bliss

William Woodbridge

2nd Governor of Michigan

5th cousin 7 times removed
via William Morgan

Lavinia Warren

Dwarf Circus Performer

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Edward Doty

Millard Fillmore

13th U.S. President

6th cousin 6 times removed
via William Morgan

Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson

First Lady of President Woodrow Wilson

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Bliss

Levi Parsons Morton

22nd U.S. Vice-President

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Bliss

John Brown

American Abolitionist

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Bliss

C. W. Post

Founder of Post Cereals

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Bliss

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Bliss

Edwin D. Morgan

21st Governor of New York

6th cousin 6 times removed
via William Morgan

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Morgan Bulkeley

54th Governor of Connecticut

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Thomas Bliss

O. Henry

Short Story Writer

6th cousin 6 times removed
via John Steele

Mark Hopkins, Jr.

Co-founder, Central Pacific R.R.

6th cousin 6 times removed
via John Steele

Lowell Mason Maxham

Medal of Honor Recipient
U. S. Civil War

6th cousin 6 times removed
via Edmund Freeman

Clarence Darrow

Lawyer, Scopes Monkey Trial

7th cousin 4 times removed
via John Ellis

Shannon Woodward photo by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)