Ancestry of
Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Cornelius Coffin Williams 
  • Mother:
  • Edwina Dakin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Mar 1911 
  • Birth Location:
  • Canton, Madison, Mississippi 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Feb 1983 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, St. Louis, Missouri 
  • Notes: 
  • Many biographers and websites list Tennessee's place of birth in Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi. This disagrees with researcher Gary Boyd Roberts who places the birth in Canton, Madison County, Mississippi.

• Sources for Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/29/2014).
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1991, Vol. 8, p. 30.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 126, 167.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 193.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Tennessee Williams", (accessed 05/21/2010).