![]() Around 1933, he married Odessa Lee O'Grady. He also played the piano, took piano lessons and wrote music. According to DNA research, Muhammad Ali's paternal grandmother was Archer Alexander's (1815-1880) great-granddaughter. His sister Eva said that Sallie was a native of Madagascar. Clay's paternal grandparents were John Clay and Sallie Anne Clay. ![]() He had a sister and four brothers, including Nathaniel Clay. He was named in honor of the 19th-century Republican politician and staunch abolitionist, Cassius Marcellus Clay. Clay (March 1876 – February 1, 1954) and Edith E. Biography Ĭlay was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, the son of Herman H. His son Muhammad Ali described him as "the fanciest dancer in Louisville". He was described as "a handsome, mercurial, noisy, combative failed dreamer" and a "hard-drinking, skirt-chasing dandy of a daddy". He married Odessa Lee O'Grady in 1934 and worked as a painter. ![]() He was the father of three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali and Rahman Ali, and the paternal grandfather of Laila Ali. ![]() Cassius Marcellus Clay (Novem– February 8, 1990) was an American painter and musician. ![]()
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