Ancestry of
Elvis Presley

Singer, Songwriter and Movie Actor

Martha Tackett

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• • Great-grandmother of Elvis Presley — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 15 
  • Father:
  • Abner Tackett 
  • Mother:
  • Nancy J. Burdine   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Mar 1851 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mississippi 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Apr 1896 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Carolina Cemetery, Booneville, Prentiss, Mississippi 
  • Spouse Name:
  • A. White Mansell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Jan 1870 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lee County, Mississippi 
  • Child:

  Octavia Lavenia "Dollie" Mansell (Ahnentafel No:7 )

• Sources for Martha Tackett

  • ¹ Federal Census, MS, Lee County, 1880, Beat 2, E.D. 87, p. 67, Image 60 of 67.
  • ² Federal Census, AL, Fayette County, 1860, Millport, p. 68, Image 68 of 93.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/16/2015).
  • ⁴ Mississippi, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1776-1935, Marriage record for A.W. Mansell and Martha Tackett.
  • ⁵ Dundy, Elaine, Elvis and Gladys, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi (2004, originally 1985), 21.
  • ⁶ Yates, Donald N., Old World Roots of the Cherokee: How DNA, Ancient Alphabets and Religion Explain the Origins of America's Largest . . ., Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2012), 43.