Ancestry of
Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Alexander Smith

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Harper Lee — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 114 
  • Father:
  • John Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Whitfield   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1740 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Cumberland County, North Carolina 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1778 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Cumberland County, North Carolina 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Whitfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1765 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Rachel Smith (Ahnentafel No:57 )

  Mary Smith

  John Smith

• Sources for Alexander Smith

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A124711 and #A105919.
  • ² McAllister, Rev. David Smith, Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Col. Alexander McAllister of Cumberland County, N.C. . . ., Richmond, Virginia: Whittet and Shepperson, Printers (1900), 181-182, 210-211.
  • ³ Whitfield, Emma Morehead, Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, and Related Families, Book One, Westminster, Maryland: Unknown (1948), 58.