Ancestry of
Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Theophilus Hunter "Orphy" Williams

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Harper Lee — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Williams 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • Jun 1799 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Feb 1877 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Williams-English Cemetery, Finchburg, Monroe, Alabama 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Jane Lane
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 11 Sep 1822 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cumberland County, North Carolina 
  • Children:
  
  

  Irena Rachel Williams

  John Bonner Williams (Ahnentafel No:14 )

• Sources for Theophilus Hunter "Orphy" Williams

  • ¹ Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974, Death record for son John B. Williams.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A124711.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/05/2014).
  • ⁴ North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979, Marriage record for Theophilus H. Williams and Eliza J. Lane.
  • ⁵ 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.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 159.
  • ⁷ Whitfield, Emma Morehead, Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, and Related Families, Book Two, Westminster, Maryland: Unknown (1950), 229, 249.