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Black O'Kelleys

Descendants of Ellen Johnson-Mathews-Fisher
  • 84 members

About us

This is the DNA Project of Our O'Kelley Family aka the Black O'Kelleys

Our matriarch, Ellen Johnson-Mathews-Fisher was born enslaved in 1843.  She resided on the O'Kelley plantation in Woodville (Wilkinson County) Mississippi. 

Ellen's three O'Kelley sons were fathered by the sons (James & John) of John Frances Marion Kelly/Kelley/O'Kelly, and grandsons to David Kelly born in 1763 of Darlington, South Carolina. 


Our Y-DNA results have confirmed that we descend from the same line of David Kelly.  The members of this DNA Project are researching connections to Ellen Fisher's descendants: 
  • Daniel Smith O'Kelley b. 1862
  • Will Dock O'Kelley b. 1867
  • Charles Edward O'Kelley b. 1871
  • Virginia Johnson-Brooks, Cordelia Johnson, Lewis Johnson, John Archie Hilliard/Hillery, Amos Mathews, Theresa Fisher-O'Neal/O'Neil
We look forward to uniting with all of our bloodline, white or black, in our pursuits to learn more about from whence we came.

Additional information can be found at:

www.blackokelleys.org


www.facebook.com/blackokelleys