what account does Helen keller give of her family?(from The story of my life by Hellen Keller).

Helen Keller was born on 27 June, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, to Colonel Arthur and Kate Adams Keller. Her father's side descended from Colonel Alexander Spottswood, who was a colonial governor of Virginia, and her mother's side was related to quite a few prominent families of New England. Her father had been a Captain in the Confederate Army, and post war he edited a local newspaper called the North Alabamian. He was appointed the Marshal of North Alabama under the Cleveland Brown administration. Her family lost a considerable amount of wealth during the Civil War, and lived quite modestly. 
Helen also mentions that her father's side of the family, traces their origin to a Swiss, Casper Keller and according to reports one of Helen's Swiss ancestors had been the first teacher of deaf people in Zurich, which she observes to be quite a coincidence.

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