Birth Name: Samuel Pack Elliott
Place of Birth: Sacramento, California
Date of Birth: August 9, 1944
Ethnicity: English, some Scottish, distant Swiss and Dutch
Sam Elliott is an American actor. He is the son of Glynn Mamie (Sparks) and Henry Nelson Elliott. Sam is married to actress Katharine Ross.
Sam’s paternal grandparents were Hardy Bishop Elliott (the son of Henry Bishop Elliott and Mary Elizabeth Hutchinson) and Leona Pack (the daughter of Samuel Owen Pack and Mary Frances McPhail).
Sam’s maternal grandparents were Samuel D. Sparks, Jr. (the son of Samuel D. Sparks and Susan Amanda Burden) and Zora Ada/Ida Pope (the daughter of John Marshall Pope and Lucy Ann Whatley).
Sources: Genealogy of Sam’s maternal great-grandfather, Samuel D. Sparks (focusing on his own father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Sam’s maternal great-grandmother, Susan Amanda Burden – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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