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Catherine Fordonia Quinley
4 May 1876 – 9 Apr 1892
| Birth | 4 May 1876 |
| Death | 9 Apr 1892 |
| Cemetery | Johnson Cemetery Whitehouse Forks , Baldwin County , Alabama , USA |
| Added by | The Wanderer on 13 Jan 2009 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7514588 |
Bio
Old family tradition as told by the Quinley family states that when Fordonia Quinley was sixteen, she was forced to baby sit some Wilson children, the father of the children, "Old Man Wilson" raped her and made her pregnant. While she was outside one day her Uncle Eddie Johnson came by and told her to go get him some tobacco from her father, Thomas Quinley. She went to her father, and he told her no, he did not give his away. So, she went back to her uncle there was not any. He threated to whip her, and that scared her so bad it made her go into the Rickets and the Saint Vitas Dance, and died. In a taped conversation between Candy Rider Johnson and Ralph Johnson in 1984, Candy spoke of Fordonia Quinley, but could not remember her name. She said, "There was another girl in the Quinley family. They had a grown girl to die, but I can't remember her name. I remember one time one time Lena [Fordonia's youngest sister] was showing me something in an old trunk and it was a big ball of hair. Lena told me that it was her dead sister's hair. She got sick and they cut it off and kept her hair after she died. Lena never did call her name, but she is buried down there at the Johnson Cemetery. She was young when she died."
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- John Wesley "Wes" Quinley 1874–1960
- William D. "Will" Quinley 1878–1940
- Elvie Quinley Duck 1881–1958
- Francis Marion "Frank" Quinley 1883–1955
- Leroy R. Quinley 1886–1966
- Delia Ann Quinley Brown 1888–1969
- Brenard "Brenon" Quinley 1891–1974
- Robert Quinley 1894–1973
- Andrew Jackson Quinley 1897–1970
- Evie Lena Quinley Smith 1899–1980
- Unknown Child Quinley
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