Saturday, January 26, 2019

Sarah Starr - Presidential Very Great Grandmother

Sarah Starr was born in Killingly Connecticut on 28 November 1760 to Comfort Starr II and Judith (Cooper) Starr his wife.  Killingly was a small township in the Northeastern corner of Connecticut and was established in 1708.  It was owned by the colony of Connecticut and not by any business or individual for plating. Her father was 

On 10 July 1768 her sister Abigail, herself and her brothers Comfort and Pearly were baptized in the Thompson Congregational Church in Thompson Connecticut were they lived.  Thompson, named for Sir Robert Thompson is in the Northern most part of Connecticut

On 15 January 1777 Vermont was declared a free and independent State and later that year Comfort Starr II moved his family from Thompson to Guilford Vermont.  Here she met Jabez Franklin and they were married.  Her first child Luther is born in March of 1780. Sarah's father Comfort Starr II is the Captain of  the Militia for Guilford Vermont which included with her husband Jabez Franklin and her brother Pearly Starr

Her son Luther Starr marries Priscilla Pinney in 1799. In 1811 they give birth to Abigail Starr but neither  Sarah nor Priscilla will know her as Sarah passes 20 August 1805 and Priscilla, Abigail's mother dies shortly after her birth. Abigail Franklin eventually marries Hiram D. Moor and births a daughter, Victoria Josephine Moor who marries John Calvin Coolidge. Victoria and John Coolidge give birth to a son on 4 July 1872 they name John Calvin Coolidge II. They call him Calvin.  In 1923 John Calvin Coolidge II, my 9th cousin 1x removed becomes the 30th President of the United States. 

                                     Portrait of Calvin Coolidge, 1931 by DeWitt McClellan Lockman

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