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Harper Lee

Ancestry of
Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird


    James Cunningham Finch

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    • Grandfather of Harper Lee — 3rd Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • Birth Date:
    • 11 Aug 1855 
    • Birth Location:
    • Clarksville, Mecklenburg, Virginia 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Christening Location:
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    • Death Date:
    • 2 Feb 1949 
    • Death Location:
    • Atmore, Escambia, Alabama 
    • Burial Date:
    • 3 Feb 1949 
    • Burial Location:
    • Oak Hill Cemetery, Atmore, Escambia, Alabama 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 30 Nov 1887 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Monroe County, Alabama 
    • Notes: 
    • Some sources give the date for the marriage of James Cunningham Finch and Ellen Rivers Williams as 03 OCT 1887. Perhaps this was the bond date?

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  • Sources for James Cunningham Finch

    • 4 Federal Census, VA, Mecklenburg County, 1860, Regiment 22, p. 5, Image 5 of 87.
    • 5 Federal Census, AL, Monroe County, 1900, McKinley, E.D. 163, Sheet 11B, Image 22 of 26.
    • 8 Shields, Charles J., I am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee, New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC (2008), 5.
    • 9 Shields, Charles J., Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, New York: Henry Holt and Company (2006), 36.
    • 10 Whitfield, Emma Morehead, Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, and Related Families, Book Two, Westminster, Maryland: Unknown (1950), 346.