Birth Name: Brook M. Busey
Place of Birth: Lemont, Illinois, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 14, 1978
Ethnicity:
*English, German [including Alsatian German] (father)
*Italian (mother)
Diablo Cody is an American screenwriter, producer, author, journalist, memoirist, stripper and exotic dancer.
Diablo is the daughter of Pamela “Pam” Mary and Gregory “Greg” F. Busey. Her father has English and German (including Alsatian) ancestry. Her mother is said to have Italian ancestry.
Her paternal grandfather was Clinton M. Busey. His parents were Mary Ann Foster and Clinton Matthew Busey (the son of Clinton John Simpson Busey and Carolina Maria Snyder). John’s parents were Matthew Wales Busey (the son of Samuel Busey and Catherine Seigler) and Elizabeth Bush (the daughter of Josh Bush and Mary Phillips). Mary Phillips was born in Pennsylvania, to a mother from Alsace, France, and a father from Germany.
Her paternal grandmother was Vera A. Sanderson. Her parents were Walter Sanderson (the son of Frederick Sanderson and Celestia Horton) and Emily Lucretia Gregory (the daughter of Knudt Gregory and Amy Lurinda Bliss).
Sources: Diablo’s paternal grandfather, Clinton M. Busey, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSYT-ZS7
Genealogy of Diablo’s father, Gregory “Greg” F. Busey – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
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