Zhavia Ward
Ward in 2019, photo by DFree/www.bigstockphoto.com/
Birth Name: Carisa Zhavia Vercetti/Ward
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Date of Birth: March 6, 2001
Ethnicity: Mexican, English, Scottish, possibly Italian, other
Zhavia Ward is an American singer and songwriter. She is also known simply as Zhavia. She is the daughter of singer, hairstyler, and model Bobbi Jo Black.
She has stated that she is of Chiricahua Apache Native American ancestry. It is not clear if this Native American ancestry has been verified/documented.
Zhavia’s maternal grandmother is Barbara Jean “Bobbi” Baca (the daughter of Trinidad J. Baca/Bacca and Barbara Jean Stewart). Zhavia’s grandmother Barbara was born in Colorado, and had deep Mexican/Hispanic roots in New Mexico. Trinidad was the son of Jose Lorenzo Baca and Marcelina Martinez. Zhavia’s great-grandmother Barbara was the daughter of Ernest Francis Stewart and Barbara Mestas.
Could this be her grandmother?:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPSM-9FVT
The complete name and the birth year fits. My biggest problem is that they married eight years before Zhavia’s mother was born.
The man is Joseph Earle Pais (the son of Angelo J. Pais and Ermey Minnie Donati). Angelo was the son of Italian parents, Giacomo “Jack” Pais and Lucia “Lucy” Zandegiacomo. Ermey was the daughter of Frank Donati, who was Italian, and of Helen Froman, who was born in Czechoslovakia, of German descent.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XKR-MQYG
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5P-9BSG
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XKR-8MVS
Zhavia’s maternal grandmother is Barbara Jean “Bobbi” Baca (the daughter of Trinidad Baca and Barbara Jean Stewart). Zhavia’s grandmother Barbara was born in Colorado. Trinidad was the son of Jose Lorenzo Baca and Marcelina Martinez. Zhavia’s great-grandmother Barbara was the daughter of Ernest Francis Stewart and Barbara Mestas.
Zhavia’s grandmother has deep roots in New Mexico.
Vowell is her step-grandfather’s surname, so it can be removed from the profile. Her grandmother’s middle name is Jean. I’ve neither found out her grandfather’s name nor her grandmother’s maiden name yet.
This is her maternal grandmother’s father:
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/1496144_550225918447180_8126033350460798153_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=84a396&_nc_ohc=YjppRf8JW0IAX-D8fV8&tn=ZiuBQM4xGfkOJLu_&_nc_ht=scontent-arn2-1.xx&oh=00_AfCUtj1j21M4iqOEBENN4Llkhi94G4E-E76kKKlbEdHqfQ&oe=63BDBBA6
Chinese?
She stated in a TikTok that she is Native American and in one of the comments she wrote that she is Apache Chiricahua. It seems weird to be so specific if she was faking it
She’s claimed to have Indigenous ancestry on her tiktok, though it looks like she’s just looking for an excuse for her hair
There were some similar hairstyles in the Cree and Mojave tribes to be fair, but she won’t specify a tribe so probably just another generokee lol