Ancestors
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ANCESTORS and MEMBERS VERIFIED AS TEACHERS AS OF
August 2026
(dates of life span given for deceased ancestors)
17th Century (1600’s)
Bradbury, Thomas (1610-1695) MA
Bower(s), John (1629/30-1687) CT
Brackett, Richard (1610-1690) Plymouth
Bulkeley, Hon. Peter (1640/1-1688) MA
Bulkeley, Rev. Peter (1582/3-1658/9) MA
Cary, John (1610-1681) Plymouth
Catlin, John (d. 1704) New Jersey
De Beauvois, Carel (1626–bef. 1687) NY
Dunster, Henry (1609-1658) MA
Eaton, Nathaniel (1609-1674) MA
Epes, Daniel Col. (1649-1772) MA
Frame, Thomas (1650-1705) MA
Garner, John (1633-1710) VA
Hall, John (1646-1708) CT
Hicks, Margaret (d. 1665/6) MA
Higginson, Rev. Francis (1588-1630) MA
Higginson, Rev. John (1616–1708) CT
Mason, Daniel (1652-1736/7) CT
Munson, Samuel (1643-1693) CT
Pardee, George (1623/4-1700) CT
Perkins, William (1607-1682) MA
Pitkin, William, Sr. (1635-1694) CT
Pormort / Purmort, Philemon (1598-1679) MA
Provoust, David (1608–1675) New Amsterdam
Riggs, Thomas (1633-1722) MA
Shove, Rev. Seth (1667-1735) MA/CT
Stone, Samuel (1646-1708) CT (Not a School Teacher–a Church Teacher*)
Street, Nicholas (1603–1674) Plymouth (Not a School Teacher–a Church Teacher*)
Symmes, Rev Zachariah (1599-1681) MA
Tucker, Morris (1640-1711) MA
Turpin, William (d 1709) RI
Whaley, Theophilus, (1616–1720) RI
Wheelock, Ralph (1600-1681) MA
Wetherall, William (1630-1719) MA
17th and 18th Century
Norcross, Richard (1621–1709) MA
18th Century (1700’s)
Amweg, John Michael (1705-1779) PA
Bates, Henry (1690-1770) CT
Benton, James M. (1784-1849) TN
Bessellieu, Mark Anthony (1720-1765) SC
Caldwell, Joseph (1724-7–1811) NH
Cossitt, Rene (1690-1752) CT
Eakins, Joseph (1762/7-1805) NC
Fiske, Phineas Rev.(1682-1738) CT
Fontaine, Frances (1697–1749) VA
Fry, Col. Joshua (1699-1754) VA
Higley, Katherine (1679-1740/41) MA
Hill, Caroline ( ) VA
Hunt, Samuel (1681/2-1729/30) MA
Matthews, Darius (1766-1819) CT/VT
Melson, William A. (1821-1903) GA
Moore, Walter (1693-1782) MD
Perley, Thomas (1669–1745) MA
Pierson, Abraham (1645/6-1706/7) CT
Plumley, Abigail Preston (1726-1814) MA
Rigby, James (d. 1801) PA
Skinner, Thomas (1668 – 1758) MA
Timberlake, Francis (1758-1830) NC
Vermeule, Adrian (1666–1735) NJ
Warner, Wettenhall (1736-1818) SC
White, Thomas (1701-1763) MA
Willson, John (1701-1733) VA
18th and 19th Centuries
Albert, Joseph (1758-1811) GA
Padget/Paget, George (1759–1834) PA
19th Century (1800’s)
Adams, Alma Fidelia (1864–1943) VT
Ash, Bertha Martha (1875-1939) MI
Barber, Hester Ann Boykin (1825-1895) MS
Barlow, Alfred (1795–1870) PA
Barton, Lavinia (1839-1922) LA
Berryman, Jerome Causin (1810-1902) Indian Territory (KS)
Blakely, Abraham (1811-1864) OH
Blakely, Huldah Derry (1813-1894) KS
Bone, Josiah Nelson (1852-1937) NC
Brakey, James (1824-1904) KS
Buxton, Henry Eliud (1839-1912) MI
Cain, William Franklin (1818-1862) MS
Chenoweth, Nathan R. (1857-1931) IN
Clement, Ellenor Osborn (1860-1939) NJ
Coffey, Leo Pomeroy (1871-1970) IA
Colgate, Asaph (1765-1855) VA
Cookus, Clarence Harrison (1859–1915) WV
Cox, Elizabeth Marie King (1860-1938) NE
Crutchfield, Francis (1759-1839) VA
Cullen, Laura Josephine Preston (1861-1912) WI
Cummints, Julia Ann (1838-1930) IA
Daniels, Richard (1802–1868) LA
Dann, Nancy Maria Beers (1837-1867) NY
Fenn, Ambrose Joseph (1847-1931) CT
Freeman, Nathaniel (1795-bef. 1850) PA
Freeman, Martha (Mattie) Elva (1877-1943) IA
Fry, Joshua (1760-1839) KY
Gaines, Herbert P. (1785-1849)
Gambrell, John Newton (1864-1931) TX
Garvin, Rev. James Stewart (1850-1937) PA
Hatcher, James Fulton (1837-1901) AL/AR
Hazel, Caleb (1756–1833) KY
Heales, Eliza A. Follett (1850-1900) IA
Hendrick, Bernard Calvin (1836-1898) KY/TX
Hepfer, Clarence (1875-1940) IL
Holmes, John (1820–1896) OH
Howard, Sarah Irene Martin (1841-1931) MN
Johnson, Levi (1818-1900) IN
Johnson, William (1818–1901) TX
Kean, John Vaughan (1803–1876) VA
Kiersted, Benjamin Martin Adams (b. 1874) NY
King, Peter C. (1845-1934) IA
Kirkendall, Margarette M. (1839–1914) IA
Lee, Olive Wheat (1802-1880) NY
Logan, Caleb Wallace (1819–1864) KY
McCloskey, William Tipton (1840-1901) PA
Mabee, Prudence Brattle (1916–2001) NY
Marshall, Dr. Louis (1773-1866) KY
Martin, John (1773-1855) IN
Morgan, Benjamin (1753-1830) NC
Morgan, William (1700-1847) TN
Morse, James Madison (1836-1887) IL
Olds, Lovica Bartlett Hamilton Swarthout (1818–1891) IL
Ogilvy, Clara Jane Blakely (1852-1926) KS
Patterson, George A. (1814-aft. 1870) KY
Payne, Zebulon (1812-1886) TN
Phipps, Jacob (1795-1848) PA
Pinkerton, David (1789–1853) IL
Porter, Rev. Thomas (1788-1839) KY
Powell, Martha (1805-1851) GA
Sackett, Julia Cecelia (1873-1911) NY
Sharp, Elizabeth Fogle (1863-1947 PA
Smith, Alice Emmiline Harmom (1828–1915) NY
Story, Warren Lumpkin (1834-1911) GA
Sutherland, Andrew R. (1843-1897) NY
Swisher, Silas Newton (1848-1929) WV
Teague, Lyman Wheelock (1853-1927) OH
Turnbull, Duncan R. (c1795-1836) MD
Trenholm, Emily Julia (1840-1903) GA
Wells, James Sullivan (1805-1891) MD
Weston, Cynthia S. (1825-1872) WI
Whitefield, William A. (1798–1857) NC
Wilson, Mahala Elizabeth Gooding (1857–1942) SC
Young, Calvin Berry (1859-1941) ME
19th and 20th Centuries
Clark, Emma Adel Van Slyke (1859 – 1936) IA
Clement, Richard (1861-1922) NJ
Emerson, Byron Todd (1875-1951) MN
Harbaugh, George Frederick (1856-1931) IN
Hendrick, Nellie Wilcox (1879–1956) MI/IL
Roth, Harriet (1877-1951) MN
Walker, Fletcher Walker (1873–1959) IL
20th Century (1900’s)
Abernathy, Jo Ann Lewis (b. 1934) GA
Alexander, Eva Ruth Pereboom (1897-1977) WY
Alexander, Joseph Dalry (1899-1962) TX
Baird, Betty Jane Blake, NC
Bandy, Elizabeth Strawn (1926-1993) GA
Bauknight, Pinckney Milton (1879–1972) FL
Black, Eda Lois (1888-1951) IL
Boese, Charles Ray (1938–2017) IL
Boultbee, Alice Annette (1902-1986) MA
Bourne, Jane Mackintosh (1901-1999) NJ
Blakely, Huldah Derry (1813-1894) KS
Breedlove, Billie Foutch (b. 1928) MS
Brooks, Norma Jeanette Sander (1926-2019) NY
Brown, Jennie Helen (1908-1984) IA
Burton, Ona May Rathbun (1902-1985) OK
Cain, Joseph Hillard, Sr. (1892-1962) MS
Caldicott, Laura Leigh Long, IL
Caldwell, Mildred Sweeney (1881-1966) KY
Cannon, Winnie Lee Day (1899–1958) TX
Carr, Forrest Praul (1885-1983) PA
Carr, Margaret Alice Long Ries (b. 1947) MO
Cavender, Mary Jane (1918–2004) OH
Chaffin, Milbra Lee Spivey Chaffin (1919-2011) TN
Clark, Laura Elizabeth Stewart (1915-2005) AL
Clegg, Villa (1885–1980) IA
Clement, Elinor Richardson (1893-1940) NJ
Coan, Maurene Gayle Mast, (b. 1946) IL
Comerford, Roberta Anne (b. 1967) NY
Cook, Ida Mae Sullivan (1891-1970) KS
Cookus, Ione Josephine Shull (1890–1981) FL
Cox, Joe Burton, Sr. (1905-1995) TX
Craig, Frankie Celeste Steven Smith (1928-2016) TX
Cron, Anton Caesar (1878–1961) WI
Cron, Ella Margaret Bone (b. 1943) NC
Cullen, Harold Dempster (1882-1962) AL
Cunningham, Constance Threatte (1923–2000) GA
Davidson, John Bunyan (1915–2003) TX
Davis, Winifred Ruth Dallas (1926–2014) MS
Deviney, Esther Lee Gambrell (1902-2005) TX
Deviney, Marvin Lee, Sr. (1895-1967) TX
Donnelly, Kathryn Supan (1902-1981) IL
Downing, Janet Lewis, WA
Eaton, Laura Mae Van Valkenburg (1893-1980) NY
Eck, Mary Esther Deviney TX
Edsall, Geraldine Disbrow (1918–2010) PA
Eide, Bernice Lillian (1912-1996) NY
Ensminger, Mary Ann Sieverts MD
Etheridge, Anne Phillips (1942–2009) GA
Farr, Mildred Clara (1884-1965) VT
Fender, Thelma Ennis Shepherd (1914-1998) NC
Fields, Thelma Nelson (1907-2002) GA
Finch, Jennnie Frances (1881-1928) OH
Foutch, William Repsie (1901-1981) TN
Goebel, Alice Cornelia Goeway (1932–2020) NY
Griffith, James William (1922–2008) TX
Halterman, Wilma Wadsworth, NE
Haney, Nadine Susanne (1913-2006) MN
Hawn, Elizabeth L. Warnebold Allen (b. 1930) MO
Heil, Jo Ellen (b. 1954) CA
Heil, Samuel (1926–2011) CA
Hendrick, Edward Livius (1874–1926) MI/IL
Hendrick, Helen Bartholomew (1906-1982) TX
Hepfer, Ida Ruth (1907-1999) IL
Hitsman, Effa Jane (1905-1998) MI
Holland, Margaret Ronayne (1889-1975) SD
Hoyt, Mary Margaret Stewart (1894-1984) KS
Huenergardt, Heidi Marie (1920-2004) KS
Hughes, Perry B. (1871-1944) AL
Ingwersen, Mabel Esta Smith (1908–1990) IA
Johnson, Gertrude Mae King (1905-1983) NC
Jones, Lawrence Martin (1902-1988) MN
Jones, Mildred Evelyn Hallberg (1906-1967) MN
Jones, Vernie Mayhue (1898-1984) AR
Kelly, Dennis Edward III NJ
Kelly, Theresa Ann Daiuto NJ
Kirkpatrick, William John (1908-1975) NY
Krise, William A. (1838-1920), PA
Lange, Rose King (1904-1984) OK
Lattimore, Norma Ann (b. 1932) GA
Ledebuhr, Delta K Hainbecker (1892-1966) MI
Lee, Wilton Anthony (1915–1988) SC
Leo, Margaret Montgomery (1934-2020) PA
Lewis, Mary Ruth Goodman (1908-1978) AL/GA
Lewis, Muriel Morris (1911-1992) Philippines (US Territory)
Little, June Elizabeth Blackwood (1912-1973) VT
London, Romana Donnelly (1931–2015) FL
Long, Jessica Alice Broadstone (1895–1976) IL
Long, Marilynn Alice Mast (b. 1940) IL
McClen, Susan Fenn (1896-1973) CT
McElroy, Enid McKinley (1909-2002) IL
Maddox, Dorothy Mary McKinley (1917-2003) KY/TN
Martin, Rosalee Robinson (1921–2004) AR
Mather, Prudence Brattle (1916–2001) NY
Mauk, Francis Xavier (1923-1990) NJ
May, Mary Elizabeth White Pickard NC
Messersmith, Grace I. Wilkins (1910-2001), PA
Mitchell, Myrtle Esther (1880-1981) IN
Miller, Ellen Irene Fisher (1901–1965) OH
Mills, Henrietta Rosaline Wiek (1909-1986) WV
Moore, Ann Fellows (b. 1934) CO
Moore, Barbara Carmen Brewer McArthur Hall (1925-1995) NC
Morris, Louise Ogilvy (1881-1943) KS
Morris, Thomas Leonary (1885-1965), GA
Morse, Catherine Mitchell (1910-1987) TX
Nathan, Charles Samuel (1928-2015) NY
Nathan, Bruce Adrian Rev. (b. 1954) IN
Newman, Clifton B. (b. 1926) KY
Nielsen, Alex Jerome (1922–2014) CA
Noble, Bessie Mary Clark (1911–1964) IA
Osborn, Myrtle Effie (1899-1927) VA
Owen, Lucille Harris (1915-2000) NC
Parker, Marilyn Joan (1935–1994) KS
Patterson, Augustus Garland “Gus” (1900-1971) AR
Perkins, Charlotte May Webb (1903-1988) NH
Perry, Rena Waldron Hook (1901-1993) SD
Phillips, Anna Elizabeth (1904-1994) GA
Phillips, Clarice (1907-2000) CA
Pogoloff, Boris Col. (1931-1989) NJ/PA
Pogoloff, Karen Lynne (b. 1951) VA/TN
Prichard, Joe White (1915-2002) TN
Raywalt, Emily Jane MacIntyre Erickson (1885-1938) ND
Resch, Florence Magdalena Zeltinger (1907–2002) ND
Resch, Magdalena “Lena” Marie Zeltinger (1899–1983) ND
Resch, Rita Marie (b. 1936) ND/MO
Roberson, Margaret E. (1905–1983) NC
Roberts, Ethel Marie (1911–1997) IL
Rochelle, Carolyn Jane Musser (1938-2021) VA MD
Roth, Alma Edwards (1905–1981) AR
Roundtree, Virginia Lou (Speck) (Virgil) (1928–2013) OK
Rowland, Estelle Marie Downing (1893-1981) WA
Schanck, Richard Louis (1902-1964) IL
Schenk, C. Perry, MN
Shenefield, Margaret Sue (1930-2013) OH
Sieverts, Bernard Louis Christian (1908-1968) MD
Sieverts, Kathryn Luella Wentz (1915-2007) MD
Sims, Sheryl Elise (1909-1971) LA
Smith, Mervin (1911-1985) TX
Smith, Nadine LaRue Hunter LA
Spivey, Patrick Hagan (1896-1959) VA
Stockwell, Herbert Grant (1866-1937) PA
Strawn, Eme Adeline Holland (1904-1996) GA
Thompson, Effie Florence Avent (1882-1961) NC
Thornton, Cynthia Lena Cantrell (1919-1978) AR
Utley, Alfred Ray (b. 1936) AK
Virgil, Kenneth W (b. 1952) TX
Walker, Shirley Bloodworth (1929-2009) GA
Wadsworth, Grace Odgen (1900-1994) IA
Webster, Dorothy Kilmer (1907-1973) NY
Wells, Sallie Newsome (1898-1982) GA
Wenzel, Harold Audrian (1924-1997) AZ
White, Mary Elizabeth Eakins (1904-1997) NC
Whitmore, Shirley Ann Tompkins (b. 1938) FL
Whitmore, Warren Fredrick (b. 1930) IN
Whitt, Sarah Johnson (1900-1983) OH/KY
Zachariah, Josephine A. (1897-1987) MI
Zeltinger, Ignatius (1871–1952) MN/ND
Zimmerman, Martha Rosenberger (b. 1939) IL
20th and 21st Century
Boese, Kent Charles (b. 1964) IL
Cain, Jonathan Walker (b. 1977) VA
Coan, Maurene Gayle Mast (b. 1946) IL
Comerford, Marilee Diane Stas (b. 1946) NY
Defibaugh, Kim Lorraine Huyler (b. 1955) NJ
Gilham, Sylvia Bentley (b. 1958) CA
Hayes, Sonja Jean Saether (b. 1941) IL
Hurford, Martha Darlene Clary (b. 1955) TX
Idenden, John Edward (b. 1947) NJ
Martin, Jacqueline Sue IN Martin, Pamela E. (b. 1953)
Mosher, Elizabeth Louise Goebel (b. 1962) NY
Nathan, Joan Louise Graham Dr. (b. 1955) NY
Roberts, Bonnie Davine Moore (b. 1943) FL
Routt, Thomas Earl (b. 1950) TX
Steele, Karen Elizabeth Hinson (b. 1966) MD
Whisman, Diana L. (1957–2016) KY
21st Century (2000’s)
Comerford, Roberta Anne (b. 1967) NY
Gilham, Douglas James Jr. (b. 1992) CA
Gilham, Douglas James Sr. (b. 1956) CA
Hanley, Neal James (b. 1955) KS
Henderson, Suzan Yvonne Hoffman (b. 1970) TX
Hicks, Deborah Ann Whitmore (b. 1958) LA
Hill, Elizabeth Joseph Bandy (b. 1950) GA
Patterson, William Roland (b. 1977) VA
Teague, Barbara Elaine (b. 1949) IL
Smith, Matthew Thaddeus (b. 1984) DC
Virgil, Casey L. (b. 1989) AZ
Ware, Shelley Louise (b. 1975) CA
*Not Eligible