Born in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel Olmsted
and Jerusha (Pitkin) Olmsted
Sister of
Eunice Olmsted, Dorothy (Olmsted) Church, Jerusha (Olmsted) Sage, Huldah (Olmsted) Pitkin, Martha Olmsted, Samuel Olmsted Jr., Elisha Olmsted, Russell Olmsted, Esther (Olmsted) Reynolds and Mary (Olmsted) Hollister
Wife of
John Kennedy
— married
2 May 1790 in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Samuel Kennedy and Jane (Kennedy) Barber
Died
at age 88
in Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 21 May 2012
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Biography
Clemence Olmsted was born Jan 3, 1773 in East Hartford, CT, the daughter of Samuel Olmsted and Jerusha Pitkin. Their children are:
- Child: Eunice Olmsted
- Child: Dorothy Olmsted
- Child: Jerusha Olmsted
- Child: Huldah Olmsted
- Child: Martha Olmsted
- Child: Samuel Olmsted
- Child: Elisha Olmsted
- Child: Russell Olmsted
- Child: Clemence Olmsted
- Child: Esther Olmsted
- Child: Mary Olmsted
Clemence married John Kennedy, also of East Hartford, on May 2, 1790. They had twelve children.
Clemence Olmsted Kennedy died 19 Sept 1861 and was buried in the West Cemetery, Manchester, Connecticut.[1] The 1912 Olmsted genealogy has a death date of September 22nd which is probably the burial date as her monument has the Sept 19th date.
Sources
- Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2013. Original data: Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. (ancestry.com)
- Source: S1 Title: The Hosmer Heritage: Ancestors and Descendants of the Emigrant Thomas Hosmer Author: Ronald Longaker Roberts Publication: South Lake Tahoe, CA: 1984
- Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed June 26, 2017), "Record of SAMUEL OLMSTEAD", Ancestor # A086312.
- Olmste(a)d files of Walt Steesy
- Olmsted, Henry King, M.D. Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America (A.T. De La Mare, New York, 1912); pg. 26, #288
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #70305620 has photo
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Clemence by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Clemence:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Clemence by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Clemence:
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~0.78%
Gayle (Stoffels) Adelmann
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Categories: West Cemetery, Manchester, Connecticut
parents are Clemence Olmstead Kennedy and her husband John.