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Grandfather, Anderson McCauley. Anderson McCauley was born in Georgia, the son of Ghiogee, a Creek Indian, and Charles McCauley, a soldier of Irish and Cherokee descent. Around 1884 he moved to Abbeville, Alabama, and ultimately acquired more than 500 acres. Anderson and his wife Louisa became parents of seventeen children. - Caption label from exhibit Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words Early Life and Activism: Grandfather, Anderson McCauley. Anderson McCauley was born in Georgia, the son of Ghiogee, a Creek Indian, and Charles McCauley, a soldier of Irish and Cherokee descent. Genealogy profile for Anderson McCauley Rosa Parks’s paternal grandfather, ca. 1900. Photograph. Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers, Prints and 1 photograph : b&w safety film negative ; sheet 13 x 10 cm (4 x 5 format) | Photographic copy of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Anderson McCauley (ca. 1850-1917), facing front. Original possibly a drawing or painting. McCauley met Rosa's mother-Leona Edwards, a beautiful, prim-and-proper schoolteacher-in Pine Level, Alabama, a town not far from Abbeville. Source: From "Rosa Parks" By DOUGLAS BRINKLEY. Rosa's father was an excellent builder and actually designed and built the old Henry County Training School in 1914. This historical marker commemorates a modest country farmhouse that was built by Rosa Parks’ grandfather, Anderson McCauley in 1884. After Rosa Park’s birth on February 4th, 1913, in Tuskegee, she and her family moved to this farmhouse where they lived for two years. In 1915, Parks' parents separated and she moved to Pine Level. Ninety-one years later the home was preserved and given a Rosa was married to barber and NAACP staffer Raymond Parks, until his death. Rosa’s paternal grandfather was named Anderson McCauley. Anderson was born in Alabama or Georgia. Rosa’s paternal grandmother was named Louisa Collins. Louisa was born in Alabama. Rosa’s maternal grandfather was named Sylvester Edwards (the son of Rosa Jones). Anderson McCauley was Rosa’s grandfather and my great grandfather. “Anderson was betrothed to a woman named Louisa Collins. Louisa had been raised by her aunt, Reba Clendenon, who was the wife Genealogy profile for Anderson McCauley, Jr. Rosa Parks’s paternal grandfather, ca. 1900. Photograph. Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers, Prints and Download Image of Anderson McCauley, Rosa Parks' paternal grandfather. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Photographic copy of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Anderson McCauley (ca. 1850-1917), facing front. Original possibly a drawing or painting. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).. Dated: 01.01.1900. Topics: parks rosa, family English: Title: Anderson McCauley, Rosa Parks' paternal grandfather Abstract/medium: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 26 x 20 cm. Rosa Parks, a figurehead for equality, not only shaped a nation but also nurtured the generations within her own family tree. Key Influential Ancestors. Someone in Rosa Parks’ lineage who stood as a beacon of strength and perseverance was her paternal grandfather, Anderson McCauley, a former slave who became a successful Alabama farmer. Rosa McCauley Parks – the mother of the American Civil Rights Movement – left an indelible mark on American history when she refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Louisa Collins was born in Georgia, the daughter of a mixed-race slave. She married Anderson McCauley, another mixed-race Georgian. Ten of their seventeen children survived to adulthood. All ten were literate. The eldest was Addie (b. 1884) and the youngest was George Gaines McCauley (b. 1904). Rosa lived with her grandparents as a toddler. File: Anderson McCauley, Rosa Parks' paternal grandfather LCCN2015650607.jpg. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Jump to navigation Jump to search 1 photograph : print ; sheet 18 x 13 cm. | Photographic copy of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Anderson McCauley (ca. 1850-1917), facing front. Original possibly a drawing or painting. Download Image of Anderson McCauley, Rosa Parks' paternal grandfather. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Photographic copy of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Anderson McCauley (ca. 1850-1917), facing front. Original possibly a drawing or painting. Title devised by Library staff. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Rosa Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, is celebrated as a pivotal figure in the American civil rights movement. Her most notable act of defiance occurred on December 1, 1955, when she refused to yield her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. 1 photograph : airbrushed hand-colored gelatin silver print ; sheet 25.3 x 20.2 cm. | Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Louisa Collins McCauley (ca. 1875-1941), Rosa Parks' paternal grandmother. Rosa’s paternal great grandmother – Ghiogee – was a full-blooded Poarch Creek Indian. Ghiogee eventually left Capt. McCauley and took their children back to reservation lands, but McCauley followed her and took his only son, Anderson McCauley, back to Georgia with him.
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