Ancestry of
Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther

John Austin Darden

View famous kin of John Austin Darden

• • Grandfather of Angela Y. Davis — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • John Alexander Darden 
  • Mother:
  • Georgia Elizabeth Webb   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Apr 1879 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rockford, Coosa, Alabama 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jun 1942 
  • Death Location:
  • Coosa County, Alabama 
  • Burial Date:
  • 8 Jun 1942 
  • Burial Location:
  • Goodwater Cemetery, Goodwater, Coosa, Alabama 
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  • Child:

  Sallye Margarite Bell (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Additional marriages for John Austin Darden

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  • Spouse:
  • Vashti Olie Sellers
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Sep 1900

• Sources for John Austin Darden

  • ¹ Alabama, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974, Death record for John Austin Darden.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/26/2023).
  • ³ DuBose, Joel C., ed., Notable Men of Alabama: Personal and Genealogical with Portraits, Vol. 1, Spartanburg, South Carolina: The Reprint Company, Publishers (1976), 430-431.
  • ⁴ 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