The - Family Tree and Genealogy of Senator Obama
The ancestry of Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Kenyan father and an American mother. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and is one of the Democratic candidates for President in 2008.
First Generation:
1. Barack Hussein OBAMA was born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein OBAMA, Sr. of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann DUNHAM of Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while both were attending the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student. When Barack Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father moved to Connecticut to continue his education before returning to Kenya.
When Obama was six, his mother married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian oil manager. In 1967, when Soetoro's student visa was revoked because of political unrest in Indonesia, Dunham and Barack, then in first grade, accompanied him to Jakarta, Indonesia. Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro was born after the family moved to Indonesia. Four years later she sent him back to the United States to live with his maternal grandmother.
Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he met his future wife, Michelle Robinson. They have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Second Generation (Parents):
2. Barack Hussein OBAMA Sr. was born in 1936 in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya and died in a car crash in Nairobi, Kenya in 1982, leaving three wives, six sons and a daughter. All but one of his children live in Britain or the United States. One of the brothers died in 1984. He is buried in the village of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya.
3. Stanley Ann DUNHAM was born on 27 November 1942 in Wichita, Kansas and died 7 November 1995 of ovarian cancer.
Barack Hussein OBAMA Sr. and Stanley Ann DUNHAM were married in 1960 in Hawaii and had the following children:
1 i. Barack Hussein OBAMA, Jr.
Third Generation (Grandparents):
4. Hussein Onyango OBAMA was born about 1895 and died in 1979. Before settling down to work as a cook for missionaries in Nairobi he was a traveler. Recruited to fight for colonial power England in World War I, he visited Europe and India, and afterward lived for a time in Zanzibar, where he converted from Christianity to Islam, family members said.
5. Akumu
Hussein Onyango OBAMA had several wives. His first wife was Helima, with whom he had no children. Second, he married Akuma and they had the following children:
i. Sarah OBAMA
1. ii. Barack Hussein OBAMA, Sr.
iii. Auma OBAMAOnyango's third wife was Sarah, the one often referred to by Barack as his "grandmother." She was the primary caregiver for Barack OBAMA Sr. after his mother, Akuma, left the family when her children were still young.
6. Stanley Armour DUNHAM was born on 23 March 1918 in Kansas and died 8 February 1992 in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is buried in Punchbowl National Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii.
7. Madelyn Lee PAYNE was born in 1922 in Wichita, Kansas. She currently lives in Oahu, Hawaii.
Stanley Armour DUNHAM and Madelyn Lee PAYNE were married on 5 May 1940, and had the following children:
3. i. Shirley Ann DUNHAM
Fourth Generation (Great Grandparents):
8. Obama was born in Kendu Bay, Kenya
9. Nyaoke
Obama had four wives, one of whom was Nyaoke. She fathered many children, of whom Onyango was the fifth son.
12. Ralph Waldo Emerson DUNHAM was born 24 December 1894 in Argonia, Sumner County, Kansas and died 4 October 1970 in Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas.
13. Ruth Lucille ARMOUR was born in 1900 in Illinois and died (by suicide) on 25 November 1926 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas.
Ralph DUNHAM and Ruth ARMOUR were married on 3 October 1915 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas and had the following children:
i. Ralph Emerson DUNHAM, Jr., born 29 August 1916 (spouse Elizabeth Smith)
6. ii. Stanley Armour DUNHAMThe family is found living with Ruth's parents in the 1920 federal census of Sedgwick County, Kansas. In 1930, Ralph Jr. and Stanley are with their maternal grandparents in Butler County, Kansas, while their father, Ralph Sr. was enumerated with his parents in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
14. Rolla Charles PAYNE was born 23 August 1892 in Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas and died in Kansas in October 1968.
15. Leona MCCURRY was born about May 1897 in Kansas.
Rolla Charles PAYNE and Leona MCCURRY married in Kansas about 1922 and had the following children:
1. i. Madelyn PAYNE
ii. Charles W. PAYNE born about 1924.
iii. Arlene PAYNE born about 1926.Fifth Generation (Great Great Grandparents):
24. Jacob William DUNHAM was born 7 February 1863 in Kempton, Tipton County, Indiana, and died 13 August 1936 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas.
25. Mary Ann KEARNEY was born 19 September 1869 in Tipton County, Indiana and died 13 August 1936 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas.
Jacob DUNHAM and Mary Ann KEARNEY married on 1 March 1890 in Kansas. They appear together in the 1910, 1920 and 1930 Federal Census in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. Jacob & Mary Ann had the following children:
i. Hattie DUNHAM born 2 Dec 1890 and died 10 June 1951. (spouse Lewis HERRINGTON)
ii. Mabel Cleo DUNHAM born 11 Feb 1891 and died April 1977 (spouse Hugh WHITNEY)
iii. Frank Virgil DUNHAM b. 22 May 1892 and died June 1971 (spouse Pearl)
12. iv. Ralph Emerson DUNHAM
v. Christobel Beatrice DUNHAM born about 1896
vi. Pearl Marie DUNHAM born about 1897 (spouse Harry MANN)
vii. Earl Dewey DUNHAM born 22 Feb 1899 and died Jan 1980 (spouse Violet)
26. Harry Ellington ARMOUR was born 10 Jan 1874 in Illinois.
27. Gabriella CLARK was born about June 1877 in Missouri and died 15 July 1966 in Kansas.
Harry ARMOUR and Gabriella CLARK were married about 1899. They appear in the 1910 and 1920 Federal Census of Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas and in El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas for the 1930 census. They can also be found in the 1915 Kansas state census in Wichita. Harry and Gabriella had the following children:
13 i. Ruth Lucille ARMOUR
ii. Doris Evelyn ARMOUR born 18 Jan 1906 and died 15 Jan 1989 (spouse Balcom).
Ralph DUNHAM and Ruth ARMOUR were married on 3 October 1915 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas and had the following children:
i. Ralph E. DUNHAM, Jr. born about 1917.
6. ii. Stanley Armour DUNHAMThe family is found living with Ruth's parents in the 1920 federal census of Sedgwick County, Kansas. In 1930, following the death of their mother Ruth, Ralph Jr. and Stanley are living with their maternal grandparents in Butler County, Kansas, while their father, Ralph Sr. was enumerated with his parents in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
28. Charles T. PAYNE was born about June 1861 in Missouri and died sometime after the 1930 census where he is enumerated with his eldest daughter Lillie in Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas.
29. Della WOLFLEY was born about May 1863 in Ohio. Her family moved to Kansas just a few years later where she lived out the rest of her life. Della died sometime between 1900 and 1910. Her husband is enumerated as a widow by the time of the 1910 Federal Census in Aubry, Johnson County, Kansas.
Charles PAYNE and Della WOLFLEY married 14 January 1889 in Johnson County, Kansas and had the following children:
i. Lillie PAYNE born about Dec 1889
14 ii. Rolla Charles PAYNE
iii. Estelle M. PAYNE born about May 1894
iv. Frank Bourke PAYNE born 4 January 1896 and died in November 1980.
v. Elva V. PAYNE born about Nov 1899
vi. Ora B. PAYNE born about Apr 1900
30. Thomas Creekmore MCCURRY was born about January 1850 in Ozark County, Missouri and died in 1939 in Peru, Chautauqua County, Kansas. He is buried in Peru Cemetery in Peru.
31. Margaret Belle WRIGHT was born 11 August 1869 in Dry Fork, Carroll County, Arkansas and died 27 November 1935 in Kansas. She is buried next to her husband in the Peru Cemetery.
According to the 1910 Federal census, and coborrated by the age of first marriage in the 1930 Federal census, Thomas McCurry was married twice. The first was to Elgora ?, with whom he is enumerated in the 1880 Federal Census in Longton, Elk County, Kansas, along with their daughter, Dora E. McCurry, age 2 months.
Thomas MCCURRY married 2) Margaret WRIGHT on 13 March 1885 in Chautauqua County, Kansas. They appear together in the 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 Federal Census in Chautauqua County, Kansas. They had the following children:
i. Jacob (Jake) Monroe McCurry born 14 August 1886 and died 5 April 1982. He married a girl named Mary about 1910, but was listed as divorced in the 1920 Federal Census of Montrose County, Colorado. He's buried in Morris Cemetery (Odd Fellow Cemetery), Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.
ii. Thomas Wilburn McCurry born 12 Jan 1889 and died July 1980. He married Alpha Henderson about 1913.
iii. Joseph Elmer McCurry born 10 Jan 1891 and died March 1977. He married Pauline Vaden.
iv. Franklin Wright McCurry born 7 Jan 1893 and died 23 July 1973. He married Mabel Leota Spence.
v. John R. McCurry born 11 March 1895 and died 7 May 1984. He married Blanch Nicodemus. Both are buried in Morris Cemetery (Odd Fellow Cemetery), Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.
15. vi. Leona MCCURRY
vii. Ruth McCurry was born 12 July 1899 and died 7 Feb 1992. She never married.
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