Ancestry of
Berry Gordy

Founder of Motown Records

Esther Johnson

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• • Great-grandmother of Berry Gordy — 4th Generation
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  Berry Gordy (Ahnentafel No:4 )

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  • Esther Johnson was a slave owned by James Thomas Gordy. Esther gave birth to a son of his named Berry Gordy.

• Sources for Esther Johnson

  • ¹ Carter, Jeff, Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2012), 94.
  • ² Hayter-Menzies, Grant, Lillian Carter: A Compassionate Life, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (2015), 207.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Berry Gordy", (accessed 11/29/2014).

Berry Gordy photo by Angela George (CC BY-SA 3.0)