Parents of Willie Ealy Collier
(My Beloved "Grandma" who
raised my father)
Paul Ealy
Born: May 1857, Lena, Leake County, Mississippi
Died: January 5, 1943, Lena, Leake County, Mississippi, age 85
Spouse: Married Adeline Kennedy on July 7, 1879
Other Biographical Info:
● Born into slavery on William Parrott's
farm in Leake County, Mississippi;
● Owned and farmed over 600 acres of land in Leake
County;
● Was the maternal uncle of Newt Kennedy.
Adeline Kennedy Ealy
Born: February 1861, Hillsboro, Scott County, Mississippi
Died: March 3, 1942, Lena, Leake County, Mississippi, age 81
Spouse: Married Paul Ealy on July 7, 1879
Other Biographical Info:
● Born into slavery on Stephen Decatur
Kennedy's farm in Scott County, Mississippi;
● Father was said to be white;
● Housewife and mother of 9 children;
● Was the paternal aunt of Newt Kennedy.
The children of Paul
& Adaline Ealy were:
Aldora Ealy
Alice Ealy McClendon
Annie Ealy Ragsdale Nichols
App Ealy
Albert Ealy
Mack Ealy
Florence Ealy Jones
Viney Ealy Sparkman
Willie Ealy Collier
Paul Ealy also had another son, Elijah
"Bung" Ealy. Uncle Bung lived to get 106 years old.
Gravestone of Paul Ealy & Adeline Kennedy Ealy
Harmony Baptist Church, Lena, Mississippi
Gravestone of Albert Ealy
Harmony Baptist Church, Lena, Mississippi
Son of Paul & Adeline Ealy who died in World War I
Parents of Hulen "Newt" Kennedy
Great-Grandfather: Albert Kennedy
Born:
February 1856, Hillsboro, Scott County, Mississippi
Died: November 11, 1928, Lena, Leake County, Mississippi, age
72
Spouses: Married my great grandmother, Martha Ealy, on
Dec. 28, 1881. Later married
Sissie Walker on July 19, 1896 and later to a lady named Florence in 1917.
Other Biographical Info:
● Born
into slavery on Stephen Decatur Kennedy's farm;
● Oral history claims that Albert's father
was white. It is believed that his father may
have been Stephen Kennedy
or his brother.
● Moved to the Tuscola community
of Leake County where he owned and farmed a
number of acres of land;
Gravestone of Albert Kennedy
Harmony Baptist Church, Lena, Mississippi
Albert was actually born c. 1856 rather than 1864. Great-Grandmother: Martha Ealy Kennedy
Born:
1865, Lena, Leake County, Mississippi
Died: c. 1895, Lena, Leake County, Mississippi
Spouse: Married Albert Kennedy on Dec. 28, 1881
Other Biographical Info:
● Was
born around the end of the Civil War and never worked as a slave;
● Mother of 5 children;
● Died in the early 1890's. It
was said that she was blown away in a storm (tornado)
that hit the
county.
The children of Albert
& Martha Kennedy were:
Dora Kennedy Luckett
(1882-1940)
Robert "Rob" Kennedy (1885-1977)
William "Will" Kennedy (1887-1977)
Hulen "Newt" Kennedy (1888-1970) **
Wilson Kennedy (1891-1988)
The children of Albert
Kennedy & Alice Hill Floyd were:
Hattie Lou Kennedy (1890-
)
Malcolm (Mal) Kennedy (1893- )
Alfred Kennedy (1896- )
Willie Kennedy (1899- )
Virgil Kennedy (1901- )
Leroy Kennedy (1903- )
Pheopolis (Fayop) Kennedy (1907- )
Viola Kennedy (1911- )
Great-Great-Grandmother: Lucy Kennedy Cherry
(mother of Albert Kennedy and
Adeline Kennedy Ealy)
Born: February 1828, Monroe
County, Alabama
Died: after 1900, Lena, Leake County, Mississippi
Spouse: Married Wright Cherry shortly after the Civil War
Other Biographical Info:
●
Born to a black enslaved mother and white
father in Alabama;
● Stephen Kennedy brought her, her
brothers, Ben & Augustus Kennedy, and her first-born child,
Elvina, to Leake County, MS in 1850. He and his wife,
Mary Caldwell, and their children settled near Lena and then near
Hillsboro in Scott County by 1860;
● While enslaved on Stephen Kennedy's farm, Lucy had 6 children, who
were probably fathered by Stephen and/or his brother. Oral history claims that
their father was white. According to the 1860 Scott County
Slave Schedule, seven of Stephen D. Kennedy's nine slaves were
classified as mulattoes;
● After the War, Lucy married
Wright Cherry, who was originally from North Carolina, and had
four additional children;
● Lucy's brother, Augustus (Gus) Kennedy, also a mulatto,
married a lady named Elvira and had the following children:
Edmond Kennedy
Melford Kennedy
Laura Kennedy,
Francis Kennedy Gilbert
Gus Kennedy later married Celia Braswell in 1885, and
his children by her included:
Rufus Kennedy
Charles Kennedy
Mary Kennedy
Jessie Kennedy
Eleanor Kennedy
Benjamin Kennedy
Lilly Kennedy
Uncle Gus and Celia moved to East Carroll
Parish, Louisiana (Lake Providence) by 1895. Lucy's children,
Isabella Kennedy & Leona Kennedy Pullen, also moved to Lake
Providence.
● Lucy's brother, Ben Canady, also a mulatto, married a lady
named Ann Bobbitt and had a son named Rufus Kennedy, who was known
as Uncle Ruff. The children of Lucy
Cherry were:
Elvina "Viney" Kennedy Lee
Isabella "Bella" Kennedy
Martha "Mattie" Kennedy Ealy
Leona Kennedy Pullen
Albert Kennedy **
Adeline Kennedy Ealy
Grant Cherry
Eugene Cherry
Jenny Cherry Harris
William Cherry
Great-Great-Grandfather: Robert (Big Bob) Ealy
(father of Martha Ealy
Kennedy and Paul Ealy)
Born: March 1814, Nash County,
North Carolina
Died: after 1900, Lena, Leake County, Mississippi
Spouse: Married Jane Parrott
Other Biographical Info:
● Born
into slavery in North Carolina.
Research findings indicate that he was first enslaved by Jesse Bass
of Nash County, NC;
● In 1822, Jesse Bass bequeathed in his will a young slave named "Bob"
to his daughter, Frances Bass. "Bob" is believed to be Big Bob Ealy. Frances later married William W. Eley of Franklin
County, North Carolina. William & Frances Eley left North
Carolina shortly before 1840, taking Bob with them to Leake County,
Mississippi. Bob never saw his family members again.
● Family oral history claims that "Masser Billy" Eley used Big Bob as a
stud slave because he was a stout man, and he fathered many children
by enslaved women of nearby farms. However, I can only find the
names of the children he had with his wife, Jane Parrott.
Great-Great-Grandmother:
Jane Parrott Ealy
(mother of Martha Ealy Kennedy and Paul Ealy)
Born: c. 1828, Lunenburg
County, Virginia
Died: before 1900, Lena, Leake County, Mississippi
Spouse: Married to Robert Ealy
Other Biographical Info:
● Born
into slavery in Virginia on William
Parrott's farm;
● Jane, her parents, and siblings were brought to Leake County, Mississippi
shortly before 1840 when William Parrott settled near Lena.
William Parrott was a neighbor of William W. Eley.
● Jane had a younger brother named James Parrott, born 1832 in Virginia.
James Parrott's children included:
Alfred Parrott
Eliza Parrott
Sarah
Parrott
Laura Parrott Tate
Amanda Parrott
William Parrott
Martha
Parrott
Sylvester Parrott
James Parrott
Ben Parrott.
● Jane had another brother, John Armistead Parrott, born 1837 in
Virginia. He had two sons:
Rayford (Raff) Parrott (1858)
George W. Parrott (1862).
Raff Parrott had 11 children:
Benjamin, Mary Jane, Francis, Willie Mae, Annie, Georgia, Eddie, John
William, Boney, Trudie, & Curtis Parrott. George Parrott had 13
children: Jessie, Coleman, Mary, Maud, Raff, Pearlie,
Lillian, Mandy, Tom, George, Lou Ella, Hattie, and Jethro Parrott.
● It is also believed that Jane Ealy had a third younger brother named
Simon Parrott.
The children of Robert
and Jane Ealy were:
Adeline Ealy Robertson Orman
John Ealy
Annie Ealy Beamon
Andrew "Andy" Ealy
Robert "Bob" Ealy, Jr.
Paul Ealy
Augustus "Gus" Ealy
Ephraim (Boot) Ealy
Haywood Ealy
William (Will) Ealy
Martha Ealy Kennedy
Penny Ealy Ragsdale
Nicholas Ealy
Gravestone of Annie Ealy Beamon
Harmony Baptist Church, Lena, Mississippi
(Daughter of Robert Ealy & Jane Parrott Ealy)
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