Ancestry of
Muhammad Ali

World Heavyweight Boxing Champion

Thomas Morehead

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• • Great-grandfather of Muhammad Ali — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Armstead S. Morehead 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Dinah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT Dec 1835 
  • Birth Location:
  • Logan County, Kentucky 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1913 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bibb
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1891 
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  • Child:

  Birdie Bell Morehead (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • Tom Morehead was a slave and is said to have been fathered by his owner Armstead Morehead and one of Morehead's slaves named Dinah.

• Additional marriages for Thomas Morehead

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  • Spouse:
  • Georgia Ann Lyons

• Sources for Thomas Morehead

  • ¹ Federal Census, KY, Logan County, 1900, Olmstead, E.D. 44, Sheet 4B, Image 8 of 24.
  • ² Kentucky, U.S., Death Records, 1852-1965, Death certificate for daughter Birdie Bell Grady.
  • ³ Egerton, John, "Heritage of a Heavyweight", The New York Times Magazine, 28 SEP 1980, (accessed 09/19/2015).
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Odessa Grady Clay", (accessed 09/19/2015).