Ancestry of
Harper Lee

Author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Ellen Rivers Williams

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• • Grandmother of Harper Lee — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • John Bonner Williams 
  • Mother:
  • Christiana "Kitty" Maiben   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Aug 1866 
  • Birth Location:
  • Alabama 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Jul 1937 
  • Death Location:
  • Finchburg, Monroe, Alabama 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Oak Hill Cemetery, Atmore, Escambia, Alabama 
  • Spouse Name:
  • James Cunningham Finch
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Nov 1887 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Monroe County, Alabama 
  • Child:

  Frances Cunningham Finch (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • 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?

• Sources for Ellen Rivers Williams

  • ¹ Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974, Death record for daughter Frances Finch Lee.
  • ² Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974, Death record for Ellen Rivers Finch.
  • ³ Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957, Marriage record for James C. Finch and Elen R. Williams.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, AL, Monroe County, 1900, McKinley, E.D. 163, Sheet 11B, Image 22 of 26.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/05/2014).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 159.
  • ⁷ Shields, Charles J., I am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee, New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC (2008), 4-5.
  • ⁸ Shields, Charles J., Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, New York: Henry Holt and Company (2006), 36.
  • ⁹ Whitfield, Emma Morehead, Whitfield, Bryan, Smith, and Related Families, Book Two, Westminster, Maryland: Unknown (1950), 295, 346.