Public domain publicity photo of Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow Genealogy

The Feb. 1990 issue of the Laurel Messenger newsletter indicates that the movie star "Jean Harlow" (1911-1937) was a descendant of the Beal and Korns families of Somerset County PA. Her great-grandfather was Jesse Beal Sr., son of John and Mary Magdalena (Korns) Beal; Mary Magdalena Korns was the third child of Michael Korns, Sr. and was born in 1785. Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenter on March 3, 1911 in Kansas City.

Here, below, is an ahentafel showing what I think I understand her relationship to the Korns family to be.

1. Jean Harlow

2. Dr. Mont Clair Carpenter

4. Abraham L. Carpenter

5. Dianna Beal

10. Jesse Beal

11. Lydia Hoyman

12. John George Beal

13. Mary Magdalene Korns

26. Michael Korn, Sr.


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