Ancestry of
Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Joel Williams

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Harper Lee — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 112 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Williams 
  • Mother:
  • Martha -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1730 
  • Birth Location:
  • Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1761 
  • Death Location:
  • the Cape Fear River, North Carolina 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jane Smith
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  • Child:

  Isaac Williams (Ahnentafel No:56 )

  • Notes: 

  • Joel Williams drowned in the Cape Fear River in 1761.

• Sources for Joel Williams

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A105803.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 159.
  • ³ Whitfield, Emma Morehead, Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, and Related Families, Book Two, Westminster, Maryland: Unknown (1950), 220.