Ancestry of
Cokie Roberts

Author and TV Journalist

Eustatia S. Harriss

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• • Great-grandmother of Cokie Roberts — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 15 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Benton Harriss 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Elizabeth Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Sep 1867 
  • Birth Location:
  • Oak Grove Plantation, near Lettsworth, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Sep 1898 
  • Death Location:
  • Brunswick Plantation, near New Roads, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Innis, Pointe Coupee, Lousiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward Seghers Morrison
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Dec 1886 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Williamsport, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana 
  • Child:

  Martha Corinne Morrison (Ahnentafel No:7 )

• Sources for Eustatia S. Harriss

  • ¹ Federal Census, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, 1880, 2nd Ward, E.D. 50, p. 29, Image 25 of 45.
  • ² Federal Census, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, 1870, Police Jury Ward 3, p. 23, Image 23 of 32.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/17/2019).
  • ⁴ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Record for daughter Corinne Morrison Jacobs.
  • ⁵ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Record for daughter Corinne Morrison Keller.
  • ⁶ O'Gorman, Ella Foy, Descendants of Virginia Calverts, Los Angeles, California: n. p. (1947), 526-527, gives Eustatia's birth year as 1869.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 87.

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