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Barack Obama

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Barack Obama

44th U.S. President


    Sarah "Sally" Wade Ray

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    • 5th Great-grandmother of Barack Obama — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 255 
    • Father:
    • Mother:
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1793 
    • Birth Location:
    • Virginia 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Christening Location:
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    • Death Date:
    • 1878 
    • Death Location:
    • Dinsmore, Newton, Arkansas 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Liberty Cemetery, Dinsmore, Newton, Arkansas 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 15 Nov 1810 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Overton County, Tennessee 
    • Notes: 
    • Some sources list Sally's death year as 1874. Her tombstone, which may not be the original, states 1878.

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  • Sources for Sarah "Sally" Wade Ray

    • 2 Herald-Citizen, Cookeville, Tennessee, "From the UC to D.C.," Sunday, 22 FEB 2009.
    • 3 Harman, Anastasia, et. al., "Descent of the Bunch Family in Virginia and the Carolinas", (15 JUL 2012) https://c.mfcreative.com/offer/us/obama_bunch/PDF/descendancy_final.pdf, 47-49.
    • 4 Park, Alice Crandall and Avis Park Voss, Park/e/s and Bunch on the Trail West with Allied Families: Benton, Duvall, Foster, Greenwell, Jones, Loveless, and Tally, Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press (1975), 223.