Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell was born Nov. 8, 1900 in Atlanta to a family with ancestry not unlike the O’Hara’s in Gone With the Wind. Her mother, Mary Isabelle “Maybelle” Stephens was of Irish-Catholic ancestry. Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, an Atlanta attorney, descended from Scotch-Irish and French Huguenots. The family included many soldiers - members of the family had fought in the American Revolution, Irish uprisings and rebellions and the Civil War.