Ancestry of
Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Frances Cunningham Finch

View famous kin of Frances Cunningham Finch

• • Mother of Harper Lee — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • James Cunningham Finch 
  • Mother:
  • Ellen Rivers Williams   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Aug 1888 
  • Birth Location:
  • Alabama 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Jun 1951 
  • Death Location:
  • Selma, Dallas, Alabama 
  • Burial Date:
  • 4 Jun 1951 
  • Burial Location:
  • Hillcrest Cemetery, Monroeville, Monroe, Alabama 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Amasa Coleman "Coley" Lee
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Jun 1910 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Finchburg, Monroe, Alabama 
  • Child:

  (Nelle) Harper Lee (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Frances Cunningham Finch

  • ¹ Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974, Death record for Frances Finch Lee.
  • ² Federal Census, AL, Monroe County, 1900, McKinley, E.D. 163, Sheet 11B, Image 22 of 26.
  • ³ Federal Census, AL, Monroe County, 1930, Monroeville, ED #3, Sheet No. 5B, Image 10 of 31.
  • 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 Shields, Charles J., I am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee, New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC (2008), 4-6.
  • ⁷ Shields, Charles J., Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, New York: Henry Holt and Company (2006), 35-36.
  • ⁸ Whitfield, Emma Morehead, Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, and Related Families, Book Two, Westminster, Maryland: Unknown (1950), 346.
  • ⁹ Whitfield, Emma Morehead, Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, and Related Families, Book Two, Westminster, Maryland: Unknown (1950), 383-384.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Harper Lee", (accessed 08/13/2011).