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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2007 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2007 ∏ ∏ 2B | CONTROVERSY | SUN-TIMES CHICAGO SUN-TIMES | CONTROVERSY | 3B | A SPECIAL REPORT THE OBAMA FAMILY TREE 1 2 Samuel Hinckley Sarah Soole 1 Died: Aug. 18, 10th Great- Miwiru Unknown Died: Oct. 31, 1662 KEY: For more information about the Obama ancestors on Grandparents in Barnstable, 1656 in Barnstable, Mass. Mass. the Family Tree whose names are the numbered black-lined boxes, please turn to pages 4B and 5B. For still more details about these ancestors and 3 many more, read the Chicago Sun-Times online at 9th Great- John Smith Susannah Hinckley Mareen Duvall Susanna Sigoma Unknown Died: Oct. 2, 1710 Died: Nov. 6, 1675 Died: 1694 in Anne Brasseur www.suntimes.com. Grandparents in Sandwich, Mass. in Barnstable, Mass. Arundel Co., Md. Died: 1692 5 Jonathan Singletary 4 alias Dunham Mary Bloomfield Born: Jan, 17, 1639 Owiny Born: Jan. 5, 1642 in Samuel Smith Mareen John Bunch Rebecca 8th Great- Occupation: or 1640 Newburyport, Mass. John Mary Elizabeth Duvall Elizabeth Born: About 1690 Born: About 1699 Unknown Died: Before Sept. 6, Born: Oct. 20, 1644 Grandparents Warrior and Died: 1705 in Rolph Sculliard Died: Dec. 15, 1719 Peirce Died: June Jacob Died: Before March Died: March 16, leader 1706 Woodbridge, N.J. 1741 14, 1742 1770

John Mary Elizabeth James Hickman Mary John John Hannah Lewis Jacob Duvall James Samuel Bellamy Benjamin Overall Elliott William Frances Browning Demarest Born: March 3, Bunch Hudson Born: Oct. Born: April Tarleton Born: Dunham Born: 1701 Born: Whitledge Overall Born: 1728 Born: 1723 in Culpeper Born: 1726 Born: 1703 Born: Born: Co., Va. 6, 1721 in 19, 1715 in Mary Miles Died: April About 1735 Susan Roe 7th Great- Born: Aug. Mary Rolph in Virginia Fought in 1728 in Hanover Co., Prince 10, 1756 Ann in Hanover 1726 in Born: Kisodhi Unknown 22, 1681 Died: 1743 Died: July About 1712 Aug. 22, New Fought in American Bourne Henning Hanover in Louisa Grandparents Born: Shubael Smith Prudence FitzRandolph American Va. George's in St. Co., Va. Co., Va. About Died: Dec. 31, 1681 in Anna in Prince 24, 1738 Died: 1716 Revolution Castle, Revolution Born: 1719 Died: 1783 Co., Va. Born: Jan. 2, 1692 Born: Aug. 20, 1696 in Johann Ulrich in Prince Aug. 5, Died: After Died: April 16, Died: June 4, County, Md. Mary's Co., Died: 1815 1738 1715 in Woodbridge, Died: May 31, 1769 Philipp Barbara Died: May 1793 William Died: Del. 1822 in Clark Died: March Md. in Louisa Died: Jan. Died: Sept. 12, 1766 in Stehle in Mifflin Co., William 1782 1745 Died: 1816 in Clark Co., in Louisa Woodbridge, N.J. in Woodbridge, N.J. Woodbridge, N.J. Straub Co., Va. Dec. 1803 Co., Ky. 7, 1796 Co., Va. 31, 1792 N.J. Pa. Co., Va. 1803 Ky. Co., Va.

Jonathan John Overall James Browning Dunham 6 John Miles Duvall Charles Mary 6th Great- Mary Smith Born: 1735 Frances Born: About 1745 in Susannah Born: About 1745 in Solomon Ogelo Unknown Born: Between Christian Gutknecht- John Stroup Mary Stehle Fought in Culpeper Co., Va. Allred Bunch Bellamy Jan. 7-12, 1710 Born: Dec. 27, Goodnight Maria Leonhard Maria Whitledge Hickman Prince George’s Co., Md. Grandparents Magdalena Died: Feb. Died: Nov. 4, American Born: Oct. Fought in American Anne Roselle Born: Mary Born: Born: 1769 Died: Sept. 21, 1717 Died: Dec. 26, 1795 Berkheimer Catharina Born: About Fought in American James Mary in Louisa Died: 1791 4, 1832 1835 Revolution 27, 1732 Revolution, possibly as a Philomena Tarleton Possibly Born: 1726 1765 in 1748 in 1745 Died: Revolution. Wilborn Isabel Louisa Co., Va. Died: March Died: Dec. 5, captain. Before 1833 Died: 1787 in St. Mary's Born: About 1754 Teague 1734 Died: 1792 Woodbridge, 16, 1821 Died: About 1812 Died: June 6, 1823 Died: 1790 Co., Va. Died: 1792 N.J. 1816 Co., Md.

8 Samuel Nathaniel Bunch Sarah Wade Dunham Hannah 7 Born: April 23, Samuel Phoebe Ray 5th Great- Born: May 11, Born: About Magdalena Ann Annie Browning Mary Grable John Allred Thompson 1793 1742 in Goodnight William Robert Overall Gabriel Duvall Born: 1793 Otondi Unknown 1758 Berkheimer Thomas Born: 1780 in Born: Oct. 13, George Mary Naomi John Born: June Born: 1787 Occupation: 1850 Died: 1874 in Grandparents Woodbridge, Born: 1761 Stroup Born: About Born: Oct. 3, Abraham Wilson Died: 1826 Born: About Born: Culpeper Co., 1787 1791 Taylor Thomas Born: 1757 7, 1772 in Mechanic/Black- Dinsmore, N.J. Died: Feb. in Butler Died: 1845 1764 Born: April 27, 1770 Va. John Wright John Lydia Died: Ruth Died: Nov. smith, Arkansas About 1790 Died: About Died: Aug. 1, Died: Aug. 6, Unknown Born: 1787 Born: 1787 Died: July Randolph, Newton Co., 18, 1824 Co., Ohio. in Fayette 1785. Died: Died: After 1868 Block Died: About Born: 1755 McCurry Williams About Wilburn 5, 1828 Died: Feb. 16, Co., Ohio Nov. 3, 1863 Died: 1868 1835 1827 Died: After Died: 1833 26, 1823 N.C. Ark. (Slaveowner) 1820 (Slaveowner) 1850 1840 1830 1859

Jacob Dunham 9 George Washington John S. Black Sarah Taylor Samuel Thompson Born: June 1, 1795 Catherine John Stroup Eliza Jane Joseph Elizabeth Overall Born: Aug. 9, Allred in Berkeley Co., Born: About Thomas Clark Louisiana Born: July Obediah C. Goodnight Clemmons Kearney Davis Born: July 4, 1820 1805. Farmer in 18, 1806 Adah Born: Oct. 6, 1809 4th Great- Va. (Now W.V.) 1814 Born: About Duvall Jonathan Edward Thomas Mary Wright Malinda Obongo Born: 1794 in Born: About Occupation: Born: About Occupation: Between Knox Co., Mo., Died: Oct. Wright Christine Creekmore Occupation: 1850 Anna Bunch Unknown Occupation: 1850 Occupation: 1811 in 1821 in 1850 - 1870 Farmer in Born: March Abbott McCurry Edna Ellis Born: May Jones Grandparents Montgomery 1816 in Virginia Shoemaker in Kentucky in 1850. 26, 1892 in Born: 1799 Wilson Born: in Farmer in Osage Born: March Farmer in Prairie, Co., Pa. 1850 Farmer in Phoebe Kentucky Nelson Co., Ky. 26, 1826 Died: 1848 in Born: 1790 Born: in 9, 1787 Died: Died: Feb. 12, Moneygall, Co. Died: After Died: May 19, Hurdland, in Maryland Virginia Virginia Township, Newton 27, 1814 Tipton Co., Ind. Died: After Tipton Co., Ind. 1882 in Tipton Died: After Died: Jan. 9, 1871 Died: Dec. Licking Co., Died: 1844 in Died: Before Offaly, 1870 1870 in Knox Knox Co., Died: After or North March 3, Co., Ark. Died: June Died: July 30, 1870 Died: Aug. 12, Co., Ind Ireland 1870 (Slave owner) 18, 1855 Co., Mo. Ohio Missouri 1850 Died: Nov. 4, 1857 21, 1893 1865 1851 Mo. 1880 Carolina. 1876

Jacob Mackey 10 Dunham Falmouth or Fulmuth Christopher Benjamin Payne Elizabeth Edna Joseph Samuel Wright Louisa Eliza Kearney George Armour Columbus Clark Born: April 30, 1839 Harbin Wilburn Creekmore Frances Allred Born: May 7, 1824 Robert Wolfley Born: 1819 in Kentucky Occupation: Farmer Stroup Born: About 1832 in Charlotte Born: 1850 in Ohio Born: December 1846 Susan C. in Quincy, Adams Eliza Black Rachel Abbott McCurry Born: March 23, Born: 1834 in 3rd Great- Born: Oct. 8, 1837 Born: April 3, Born: 1834 in Ohio Born: March 11, Occupation: Farmer in Overton Okoth Unknown in Tipton Co., Ind., Ireland Hollowell Occupation: Anne Civil War: Fought on Union side Overall Co., Ill. Occupation: Born: December 1827 in Illinois Co., Tenn., in 1850; Farmer in Overton Co., Grandparents in 1870 in Madison Co., Occupation: 1870 Born: About Farmhand in Born: 1849 as private in 69th Regiment of Born: June Farmer in Knox Co., 1837 in Quincy, Occupation: Farmer 1835 in Licking 1823 in Indiana Died: Jan. 15, Tenn. Ohio Adams Co., Ill. in Johnson County, Died: July 24, 1899 Carroll Co., Ark. from 1870 Died: June 12, 1907 Farmer in Tipton Co., 1834 in Ohio Ellington, Adams in Missouri the Enrolled Missouri Militia 1849 Mo., in 1870. Co., Ohio 1918 in Ada, until at least 1880 Died: After in Okmulgee, Died: Oct. 26, Ind. Died: Sept. 11, Co., Ill., in 1880. Died: After between April 30 and Oct. 4, Died: Before Died: April 15, 1878 Died: 1921 in Kan., in 1880. Died: After 1900 in Center, Oklahoma Oklahoma 1880 1901 City, Mo. Died: July, 1895 Territory Died: April 29, 1894 in Hale, Oklahoma Territory Died: March 21, 1878 1877 Died: After 1880 1880 1864 Died: After 1930 1920 in Knox Co., Mo. Territory Kan.

Jacob William Dunham Harry Ellington Armour Charles T. Payne Thomas Creekmore McCurry Obiyo Born: Feb. 7, 1863 Mary Ann Kearney Born: Jan. 10, 1874 in Illinois Born: June 1861 in Missouri Della Wolfley Born: January 1850 in Missouri Margaret Belle Wright Raised in Alego, Gabriella Clark 2nd Great- Unknown Occupation: 1920 Pharmacist in Born: Sept. 19, 1869 in Occupation: Roustabout for Magnolia Petroleum Born: June 1877 in Occupation: Cattle buyer in Knox Co., Mo., in 1880; Auctioneer in Johnson Co., Born: May Occupation: Farm laborer in Andrew Co., Mo., in 1870, and Elk Born: Aug. 11, 1869 in Dry , but moved to Wichita, Kan. Tipton Co., Ind. Co. in El Doradao, Kan., in 1918; Oiler in oil Kan., in 1900; Farmer in Aubrey Township, Johnson County, Kan., in 1910; Tire 1863 in Ohio Co., Kan., in 1880; Farmer in Chautauqua Co., Kan., from at Fork, Carroll Co., Kan. Grandparents Kendu Bay, Kenya, Missouri Died: Aug. 13, 1936 in Wichita, Kan. Died: Aug. 13, 1936 in fields in Wichita, Kan., in 1920; working an oil Died: After 1930 repair shop worker in Rosedale City, Wyanotte Co., Kan., in 1920; Livestock dealer Died: Between least 1900 to at least 1920 Died: Nov. 28, 1935 in Elk City, as a young man. Wichita, Kan. lease in 1930. Died: After 1930 in Kansas City, Wyanotte Co., Kan., in 1930. Died: After 1930 1900 – 1910 Died: 1939 in Peru, Kan. Kan.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham Sr. Rolla Charles Payne Obama Ruth Lucille Armour Born: Aug. 23, 1892 in Olathe, Kan. Great Born in Kendu Bay, Kenya, but moved Born: Dec. 25, 1894 in Argonia, Kan. Born: Sept. 1, 1900 Leona McCurry Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham Sr. Nyaoke Occupation: Automobile mechanic in Wichita, Kan., Occupation: Bookkeeper for oil well supply back to Alego, Kenya. He had three in Illinois company in Tulsa, Okla., in 1917; bookkeeper for Born: May 1897 in Grandparents other wives, one of whom is the in 1920; later worked for Boeing Aircraft in the He was named for one of America’s Died: Nov. 25, 1926 oil company in Augusta City, Kan., in 1930. Kansas greatest poets, but ’s mother of his daughter, Dorsila. tooling department. in Wichita, Kan. Died: After 1930 Died: Oct. 4, 1970 in Wichita, Kan. Died: October 1968 great-grandfather Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham never cared for his name. “It embarrassed him,” said daughter Virginia Goeldner. 11 Dunham was an outdoorsman but he Helima Hussein Onyango Akumu 12 Born: March 3, 1918 in Kansas had a tender side. “He told me Obama Army Sergeant in World War II. 13 Grandparents (First wife of (Second wife of Hussein Onyango Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama Madelyn Lee Payne once: ‘If a dad has to tell their kids Hussein, no Born: 1895 in Kenya Obama. Mother of Barack Obama Sr. (Third wife of Hussein Onyango Obama. Married: May 5, 1940. whether he loves them or not, he’s Died: 1979 Occupation: Furniture salesman. Born: October 1922 in Kansas children) and two sisters) Mother of Omar, Zeituni, Yusuf and Sayed) Occupation: Bank vice president not doing his job right,’” Goeldner Died: Feb. 8, 1992 in , said.“He said, ‘If you love your kids, they feel it.’ ”

14 Stanley Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (Barack Obama’s mother) Kezia (Barack Obama’s father.) Born: Nov. 29, 1942, in Kansas Ruth Unknown Parents (First wife of Barack Hussein Obama Sr. Mother Born: 1936 in Alego, Kenya Married: 1960 (Stanley Ann’s second husband, of Abongo (Roy) Obama, Auma Obama, Abo (Barack Sr.’s third wife. (Barack Sr.’s fourth Occupation: Kenya government official Occupation: Cultural anthropologist Barack’s stepfather.) Mother of Mark and David.) partner.) Omar Obama and Bernard Obama.) Died: 1982 in , Kenya Died: Nov. 7, 1995 Born: Jan. 2, 1930 Died: Jan. 1987 (Oldest son of Hussein Onyango and Sarah Zeituni Yusuf Sayed Obama.)

15 Barack Obama Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama Abongo 15 15 15 Born: Aug. 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii Born: Jan. 17, 1964 in Chicago, Ill. 15 15 15 15 Occupation: Democratic presidential candidate for 2008 election; elected Siblings (Roy) Auma Abo Bernard Occupation: Vice president of community and Maya David U.S. Senator in 2004; former state senator and law instructor at the Soetoro Mark George Obama Obama Obama Obama external affairs at the University of Chicago (Deceased) University of Chicago Law School. Medical Center. Born: Aug. 15 1970 (Daughter of Stanley Children Ann and Malia Obama Natasha “Sasha” Obama Lolo Born: 1999 Born: 2001 Soetoro) Elizabeth Edna Creekmore Jacob Mackey Dunham McCurry, and wife Louisa Eliza wife of SOURCES: To trace Barack Obama’s her- Harbin Wilburn itage, the Sun-Times started with his Gabriel Duvall Sr.’s second Stroup Dunham book, : A Story of cousin Gabriel Duvall McCurry Race and Inheritance, and the genealogi- cal research of William Addams Sarah Obama Obama’s great-great-great- Gabriel Duvall shared the name of grandfather, Jacob Mackey Pro-slavery “bushwackers” Reitwiesner on Reitwiesner’s Web site, Sarah Obama was burned their home, killed www.wargs.com. In addition, we verified his second cousin — Barack just 16 when she Dunham was a farmer in information and dug up new facts with Obama’s direct ancestor — and their son and nearly blind- documents on Ancestry.com, in state married Obama’s Tipton County, Ind., in the spent more than six decades in 1870s. He later owned ed their infant daughter archives, from public libraries and from grandfather. She’s with fiery coals. other sources. Those who helped include public life, including serving in really his step- restaurants and a confec- Sam Dunnam of Dunham-Singletary Congress. He was a close friend of grandmother, but tionary in the Oklahoma Family Connections, Donna Dodson of the Thomas Jefferson, but it was Newton County (Ark.) Historical Society, Barack Obama Territory, where he died in Virginia genealogist Brigitte Burkett, President who calls her 1907, according to research genealogist Christopher Challender Child tapped him to served on the U.S. “Granny.” by David Lee Dunham. of the New England Historic Genealogical Supreme Court in 1811. He was Society, David Lee Dunham, Leon McCurry, Robert Mardock, Rae Janette also a major slave owner, owning McCurry Marshall, Virginia Goeldner and as many as 37 slaves at one point. Maya Soetoro-Ng. SCOTT FORNEK AND GREG GOOD~SUN-TIMES GRAPHIC