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About Octavia Lavenia "Doll" Smith
Octavia "Doll" Smith was maternal grandmother to Elvis Presley.
had tuberculosis most of her life; bedridden for most of her life after delivering first child
- Residence: Age: 34Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife, Beat 3, Lee, Mississippi - 1920
- Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees by SmartCopy: Nov 13 2014, 16:07:51 UTC
- Find A Grave Memorial# 44026564
- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pda/ps03/ps03_307.htm
- http://www.elvispresleypedia.com/epedia/familytree/smithboom-e/inde...
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Historian and biographer Elaine Dundy writes about Elvis Aron Presley’s Jewish heritage in her book “Elvis and Gladys.
A look at the nomination of Elvis for the Jewish-American Hall of Fame yields the following information . . . Source
“…Nancy Burdine was married to Abner Tackett (Elvis’ great great maternal grandmother). Nancy was of particular interest to Gladys for her Jewish heritage, often remembering Nancy’s sons for their Jewish names Sidney and Jerome. Nancy and Abner had a daughter Martha who married White Mansell. The daughter which they named Octavia, nick-named Doll, who was Elvis’ maternal grandmother.”
“…Doll and Robert had nine children. Gladys Love was the fifth daughter born followed by 3 more brothers and one sister. After his mother died, Elvis personally sought to design his beloved mother’s gravesite which included a Star of David on Gladys Love Presley’s tombstone. The decision was made by him in honor of his Jewish heritage. Something his mother was proud of and acknowledged to Elvis at a very early age.
So Elvis’s great great maternal grandmother was Jewish and had a daughter who had a daughter who had a daughter that was Elvis’s mother. Source
Elvis Presley’s “Melungeon” Ancestry
Below is an abstract from the book “The Melungeons: The Resurrection of A Proud People;
An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America,”by Dr. N. Brent Kennedy.[1]
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“The Melungeons” second, revised, and corrected edition; page 140. Kennedy writes:
“Yes, Elvis Presley had North Carolina roots; his mother’s family left western North Carolina in the early 1800s, taking with them their legend of a Cherokee and Jewish heritage. His maternal great-great-great grandmother was supposedly “a full blooded Cherokee” from Tennessee named Morning Dove White. However, White is a far more common Lumbee, Melungeon, and Powhatan than Cherokee surname, and Morning Dove is an uncommon Cherokee given name. Also, the man she married, William Mansell, had been something of a renowned Indian fighter, making his choice of a “full-bloodied Cherokee” questionable. Mansell’s family was also native South Carolinian since the 1700s, placing them more in Lumbee than Cherokee territory. In any event, William Mansell and Morning Dove White settled in Alabama around 1820, and had several children, including John Mansell, Elvis’s great-great grandfather. John later abandoned his family to run off with a younger woman named Mandy Bennett (another Lumbee surname).
In 1870, John’s son White Mansell married a woman named Martha Tackett from Tennessee. Martha also possessed a common Melungeon surname and, even more appropriately, claimed to be Jewish. Elaine Dundy’s excellent biography of Elvis provides fascinating genealogical background and unintentionally paints a rather convincing Melungeon heritage for the “King of Rock and Roll.”
[1] Amateur genealogist and professional university administrator, N. Brent Kennedy, has theorized in "The Melungeans: The Resurrection of a Proud People" (1994) that the Melungeans comprise a distinct ethnic group living primarily in the Upper American South in part descended from Portuguese and Turkish adventurers. Some researchers still maintain that the group's origin stems from the intermarriage of freed slaves with European indentured servants to create an Atlantic Creole mix in the 17th and 18th centuries. Indeed, a limited DNA sampling of people who consider themselves Melungeons reveals that they are mostly of European ancestry but that they also possess small percentages of African American and Native American DNA. However, other limited samplings of different self-identified Melungeons contain some Eurasian or Middle Eastern DNA. Dr. Kennedy suggests that Elvis, Ava Gardner, and Abraham Lincoln all had Melungeon roots.
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Octavia Lavenia "Doll" Smith's Timeline
| 1876 |
May 1876
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Saltillo, Lee County, Mississippi, United States
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| 1880 |
1880
Age 3
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Marital status: SingleRelation to Head of House: Daughter, Beat 2, Lee, Mississippi, USA
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| 1904 |
1904
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Mississippi, United States
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| 1906 |
January 2, 1906
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Mississippi, United States
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February 14, 1908
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| 1909 |
1909
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Pontotoc County, Mississippi, United States
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| 1912 |
April 25, 1912
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Tupelo, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United States
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| 1914 |
October 3, 1914
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Pontotoc County, Mississippi, USA
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| 1917 |
February 19, 1917
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Mississippi, United States
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