Ancestry of
Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

Murphy Renchor Jones

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• • Grandfather of Angela Y. Davis — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Murphy Valentine Jones 
  • Mother:
  • Henrietta C. Campbell   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1854 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Cumberland County, North Carolina 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Oct 1929 
  • Death Location:
  • Hugo, Marengo, Alabama 
  • Burial Date:
  • 27 Oct 1929 
  • Burial Location:
  • Thomaston, Marengo, Alabama 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mollie Spencer
  • Marriage Date:
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  • Child:

  Benjamin Frank Davis (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Murphy Renchor Jones

  • ¹ Alabama, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974, Death record for Murphy R Jones.
  • ² Federal Census, AL, Marengo County, 1910, Linden, E.D. 48, Sheet 11B, Image 22 of 40.
  • ³ Federal Census, AL, Marengo County, 1920, Linden, E.D. 58, Sheet 2A, Image 3 of 16.
  • ⁴ Mallett, Anna S., John Mallet, The Huguenot, and His Descendants 1694-1894, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company (1895), 111.
  • ⁵ PBS Television, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 21 FEB 2023, Season 9, Episode 8, Angela Y. Davis.

Angela Y. Davis photo by Bernard Gotfryd