On this date in our extended family history . . . the 25th day of May . . . in the year 1803 . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson is born in Boston, Massachusetts . . . Emerson is said to be a 19th great-grandson of Eleanor of Aquitaine . . . who is believed to be a 22nd great-grandma of Josephine Wingfield Henry nee Davis (1842-1899) . . . who is a 2nd great-grandma to the Keeper of this family history timeline . . .
By Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones,
George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster: