Ancestry of
Muhammad Ali

World Heavyweight Boxing Champion

Birdie Bell Morehead

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• • Grandmother of Muhammad Ali — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Morehead 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bibb   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Jan 1894 
  • Birth Location:
  • Logan County, Kentucky 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Dec 1944 
  • Death Location:
  • Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky 
  • Burial Date:
  • 8 Dec 1944 
  • Burial Location:
  • Greenwood Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Lewis Grady
  • Marriage Date:
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  • Child:

  Odessa Lee Grady (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Birdie Bell Morehead

  • ¹ Federal Census, KY, Hopkins County, 1920, Earlington, E.D. 93, Sheet 13B, Image 26 of 34.
  • ² Kentucky, U.S., Birth Index, 1911-1999, Birth record for daughter Odessa L Grady.
  • ³ Kentucky, U.S., Death Index, 1911-2000, Death record for Odessa L Clay.
  • ⁴ Kentucky, U.S., Death Records, 1852-1965, Death certificate for Birdie Bell Grady.
  • ⁵ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Application for daughter Odessa Lee Clay.
  • ⁶ Egerton, John, "Heritage of a Heavyweight", The New York Times Magazine, 28 SEP 1980, (accessed 09/19/2015).
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Odessa Grady Clay", (accessed 09/19/2015).