Gates also revealed that Davis’ father, Benjamin Frank Davis, who was born in 1909 in Linden in Marengo County, knew that his father was a white man, Murphy Jones. Davis said her father never revealed that to her.
Murphy Jones had a long relationship and multiple children with Davis’ grandmother, Mollie Spencer, who was born in 1869 in Marengo County.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2023) stated that Angela’s genetic ancestry consists of:
*51% African
——–*19.8% Nigeria
——–*6.2% Congo & South East Africa
——–*6.1% West Africa
——–*4.5% Senegambia & Guinea
——–*2% Sub-Saharan Africa
——–*unstated% Ghana, Liberia, & Sierra Leone
*48.5% European
*0.5% Asian
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