American agriculture professor and father of Alex Haley
Simon Alexander Haley (March 8, 1892 – August 19, 1973) was a professor of agriculture and father of writer Alex Haley. He was born in Savannah, Tennessee, to farmer Alexander "Alec" Haley and his wife Queen (Davy) Haley (née Jackson).[1] Both his parents were enslaved from birth, and caucasian enslavers apparently fathered both. Simon attended Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee, at age 15.
After he was discharged honorably from the army after World War I, on September 28, 1920, he married Bertha George Palmer, the daughter of William E. and Cynthia Murray Palmer of Henning, Tennessee. Bertha was also a Lane College alum. The couple had three sons - Alexander Murray Palmer (1921-1992), George Williford Boyce (1925-2015), and Julius Cornell Embree (1930-2010) (who became an architect). Simon then finished his master's degree in agriculture at Cornell University. Bertha died on February 16, 1932, in Normal, Madison County, Alabama, after suffering for a year from "general glandular tuberculosis", according to her death certificate. In September 1932, Simon married professor Zeona Eubank Hatcher, with whom he had a daughter, Lois Ann (1933-2004). Simon Haley had positions at various southern universities, including Alabama A&M just north of Huntsville, Alabama. He died in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia and was buried at Little Rock National Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.[2][3]
^Tennessee, State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VN4K-L3B : accessed January 21, 2013), Alex Haly and Queen Davy, 1881.
^Little Rock National Cemetery homepage (Notable Persons)
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