Ancestry of Anna Faris

This article written and copyright 2015 by Will Johnson, wjhonson@aol.com, Professional Genealogist

1 Anna Kay Faris

Anna Kay Faris was born 29 Nov 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of John Homan "Jack" Faris and his wife Karen Bathurst. When Anna was six years old, the family moved to Edmonds, Snohomish County, Washington. Her father, a sociologist, became employed at the University of Washington. Her mother, initially a housewife, became a special education teacher at Seaview Elementary school in Edmonds.

2 John Homan "Jack" Faris

3 Karen Bathurst

4 Robert E Lee Faris

Robert E Lee Faris was born 1906/07 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, the son of Ellsworth Eugene Faris and his wife Elizabeth Lee "Bessie" Homan. He was living in 1930 in Chicago, where that year or the next he married Clara Guignard. In 1948, they moved to Seattle. He was Chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington 1953-66. He died of a stroke 25 Feb 1998 "age 91" (Obit)

5 Clara Guignard

Clara Guignard was born in 1907/08 in North Carolina, the daughter of Episcopal minister Sanders Richardson Guignard and his wife Emily Breggy Hill. She would appear to be the same Clara Guignard who attended the North Carolina College for Women in 1927. In 1930/31, probably in Chicago, she married Robert E Lee Faris. In 1948, they moved to Seattle. Clara died 5 Nov 1992 at "age 84" (Obit)

6 Winchell Bathurst

Winchell Bathurst was born 28 Jun 1916 in King County, Washington, the son of John Bathurst and his wife Vinnie Winchell. In 1930, he is living with his parents in Pine, Elmore County, Idaho. In 1939 he was an engineering cadet on the S.S. Coldbrook. On 16 Jul 1942 in Kitsap County, Washington, he married Minnie Madie Meins. He appears in the 1951 Seattle City Directory as a steam engineer.

7 Minnie Madie Meins

Minnie was born 7 May 1925 and died 2 Jun 2006 "aged 88"

8 Ellsworth Eugene Faris of the University of Chicago; F

Ellsworth Eugene Faris was born 30 Sep 1874 in Salem, Tennessee. In 1900 or 1901 he married Elizabeth Lee "Bessie" Homan probably in Texas.

9 Elizabeth Lee "Bessie" Homan; F

10 Sanders Richardson Guignard, Episcopal Rev

11 Emily Breggy Hill

12 John Bathurst

13 Vinnie R Winchell

14 Fred Meins

Fred was born in Germany

15 Anna Reichit

Anna was born in Germany