Ancestry of
Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

John Bonner Williams

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• • Great-grandfather of Harper Lee — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • Theophilus Hunter "Orphy" Williams 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Jane Lane   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Jul 1833 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Mar 1920 
  • Death Location:
  • Finchburg, Monroe, Alabama 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Williams Memorial Cemetery, Monroe County, Alabama 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Christiana "Kitty" Maiben
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Aug 1865 
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  • Child:

  Ellen Rivers Williams (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • A transcription of John Williams's Alabama death record gives his death date as 22 FEB 1920, but his tombstone states 08 MAR 1920. More research is needed.

• Additional marriages for John Bonner Williams

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  • Spouse:
  • Catherine Gertrude Moore
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Jul 1856

• Sources for John Bonner Williams

  • ¹ Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974, Death record for daughter Ellen Rivers Finch.
  • ² Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974, Death record for spouse Kitty M Williams.
  • ³ Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974, Death record for John B. Williams.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/05/2014).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 159.
  • ⁶ Whitfield, Emma Morehead, Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, and Related Families, Book Two, Westminster, Maryland: Unknown (1950), 249, 295.