Ancestry of
Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Frances "Fannie" Cunningham

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• • Great-grandmother of Harper Lee — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • James Cunningham 
  • Mother:
  • Alice Marshall   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Jan 1823 
  • Birth Location:
  • Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Nov 1888 
  • Death Location:
  • Evergreen, Conecuh, Alabama 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen, Conecuh, Alabama 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Robert Finch
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1847 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  James Cunningham Finch (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • A transcription of the Alabama death record for Fannie gives her date of death as 20 NOV 1888, but the date on her tombstone states 19 NOV 1888.

• Sources for Frances "Fannie" Cunningham

  • ¹ Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952, Death record for Fannie Cunningham Finch.
  • ² Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974, Death record for son John C. Finch.
  • ³ Federal Census, VA, Mecklenburg County, 1850, Regiment 22, Image 57 of 104.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, VA, Mecklenburg County, 1860, Regiment 22, p. 5, Image 5 of 87.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/07/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 159.
  • ⁷ Whitfield, Emma Morehead, Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, and Related Families, Book Two, Westminster, Maryland: Unknown (1950), 346.