Ancestry of
Cokie Roberts

Author and TV Journalist

Micajah Sheppard Harriss

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Cokie Roberts — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 60 
  • Father:
  • James Harriss 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Bookter   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1808 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Clinton, East Feliciana, Louisiana 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Jan 1873 
  • Death Location:
  • Clinton, East Feliciana, Louisiana 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Juliann Green Packwood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Mar 1829 
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Helena Parish, Louisiana 
  • Child:

  Thomas Benton Harriss (Ahnentafel No:30 )

• Sources for Micajah Sheppard Harriss

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A051785.
  • ² Federal Census, LA, East Feliciana Parish, 1850, Image 69 of 98.
  • ³ Louisiana, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1718-1925, Marriage record for Micajah Harriss and Juliann Packwood.
  • ⁴ O'Gorman, Ella Foy, Descendants of Virginia Calverts, Los Angeles, California: n. p. (1947), 524-526.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 87.

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