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Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil Rights Leader

Jennie Celeste Parks

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• • Grandmother of Martin Luther King Jr. — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • William Parks 
  • Mother:
  • Fannie -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT Apr 1873 
  • Birth Location:
  • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 May 1941 
  • Death Location:
  • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • South View Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Adam Daniel Williams
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Oct 1899 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Fulton County, Georgia 
  • Children:
  
  

  Alberta Christine Williams (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  Fannie Louise Williams

  Parks Williams

• Sources for Jennie Celeste Parks

  • ¹ Federal Census, GA, Fulton County, 1940, Atlanta, E.D. 160-241, Sheet 13B, Image 27 of 44.
  • ² Federal Census, GA, Fulton County, 1900, Atlanta Ward 4, E.D. 65, Sheet 38B, Image 76 of 86.
  • ³ Federal Census, GA, Fulton County, 1920, Atlanta Ward 4, E.D. 86, Sheet 1B, Image 2 of 53.
  • ⁴ Georgia, U.S., Death Index, 1919-1998, Death record for Jennie C Williams.
  • ⁵ Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1828-1978, Marriage certificate for Adam D Williams and Jennie C Parks.
  • ⁶ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/17/2018).
  • ⁷ The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia), 21 MAY 1941, p. 11, Obituary for Mrs. A. D. Williams.
  • ⁸ King, Naomi Ruth Barber, A. D. and M. L. King: Two Brothers Who Dared to Dream, Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse LLC (2014), family tree in back part of book.
  • ⁹ National Archives at Atlanta, From the Roots of a Tree: The Genealogy of Martin Luther King, Jr., (accessed 03/17/2018).
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Alberta Williams King", (accessed 03/17/2018).