Ancestry of
Cokie Roberts

Author and TV Journalist

Martha Elizabeth Smith

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Cokie Roberts — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 31 
  • Father:
  • James Barton Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Emily Priscilla Stanley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Oct 1841 
  • Birth Location:
  • Clinton, East Feliciana, Louisiana 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jul 1890 
  • Death Location:
  • Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Innis, Pointe Coupee, Lousiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Benton Harriss
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 May 1859 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Liberty, Amite, Mississippi 
  • Children:
  
  

  Eustatia S. Harriss (Ahnentafel No:15 )

  Annie Florette Harriss

• Sources for Martha Elizabeth Smith

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A051785.
  • ² Federal Census, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, 1880, 2nd Ward, E.D. 50, p. 29, Image 25 of 45.
  • ³ Federal Census, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, 1870, Police Jury Ward 3, p. 23, Image 23 of 32.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/17/2019).
  • ⁵ Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957, Marriage certificate for Edward Seghers Morrison and daughter Annie Florette Harriss.
  • ⁶ O'Gorman, Ella Foy, Descendants of Virginia Calverts, Los Angeles, California: n. p. (1947), 526.
  • 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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