| Submitter: | Dan Williams | |||
| Husband: | Jacob Walker LEE | |||
| Born: | May 26, 1801 | Place: | Newbern, Johnston Co., NC | |
| Married: | February 28, 1833 | Place: | Wayne Co., MS | |
| Died: | December 10, 1878 | Place: | Cherokee Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Place: | Cherokee Co., TX | ||
| Father: | Samuel LEE, Jr. | |||
| Mother: | Lucy Ann BUNN | |||
| Other Spouses: | ||||
| Wife: | Nancy BLAKELY | |||
| Born: | June 13, 1813 | Place: | South Carolina | |
| Died: | January 1, 1876 | Place: | Cotton Gin, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Cotton Gin Cemetery | Place: | Cotton Gin, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Father: | John BLAKELY | |||
| Mother: | Elizabeth SMITH | |||
| Other Spouses: | ||||
| Children: | ||||
| 1 Name: | F | Clarissa LEE | ||
| Born: | February 17, 1834 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | September 15, 1912 | Place: | Kennard, Houston Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Bennett Cemetery | Place: | Trinity Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | John GIBSON | |||
| Married: | About 1847 | Place: | MS | |
| Spouse 2: | Arthur B. ROSS | |||
| Married: | May 10, 1861 | Place: | Polk Co., TX | |
| 2 Name: | M | John LEE | ||
| Born: | January 5, 1836 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | February 12, 1902 | Place: | Trinity Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Bennett Cemetery | Place: | Trinity Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | Mary Elizabeth MOULDS | |||
| Married: | April 22, 1860 | Place: | Polk Co., TX | |
| Spouse 2: | Ceatte ADAMS | |||
| Married: | January 25, 1881 | Place: | ||
| 3 Name: | F | Sarah Elizabeth LEE | ||
| Born: | January 9, 1838 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | February 2, 1881 | Place: | Leon Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Wheelock Cemetery | Place: | Flo, Leon Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | John P. JORDAN | |||
| Married: | Place: | |||
| Spouse 2: | Thomas J. ODEN | |||
| Married: | May 18, 1867 | Place: | ||
| 4 Name: | M | James LEE | ||
| Born: | March 19, 1839 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | October 24, 1893 | Place: | Trinity Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Groveton Cemetery | Place: | Trinity Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | Caroline GIBSON | |||
| Married: | January 3, 1861 | Place: | Polk Co., TX | |
| Spouse 2: | Fallene ADAMS | |||
| Married: | Place: | |||
| 5 Name: | M | William Harrison LEE | ||
| Born: | July 5, 1840 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., TX | |
| Died: | February 22, 1932 | Place: | ||
| Cemetery: | Beach Cemetery | Place: | Golden Valley Co., ND | |
| Spouse 1: | Unknown | |||
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| Spouse 2: | Henrietta BRANSCOMB | |||
| Married: | September 24, 1866 | Place: | Decatur Co., IA | |
| 6 Name: | F | Mary Ellen LEE | ||
| Born: | August 1, 1842 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | Place: | |||
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| Spouse 1: | William WILLIAMSON | |||
| Married: | Place: | |||
| Spouse 2: | ADAMS | |||
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| 7 Name: | M | Thomas Benjamin LEE | ||
| Born: | October 24, 1843 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | May 29, 1864 | Place: | Camp Muir, LA | |
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| 8 Name: | F | Nancy Adeline "Addie" LEE | ||
| Born: | May 24, 1845 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | May 9, 1901 | Place: | Streetman, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Birdston Cemetery | Place: | Birdston, Navarro Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | TYSON | |||
| Married: | About 1865 | Place: | MS | |
| Spouse 2: | George Washington WILLIAMS | |||
| Married: | 1869 | Place: | Leon Co., TX | |
| 9 Name: | M | Robert Edward "Bob" LEE | ||
| Born: | February 9, 1847 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | July 12, 1927 | Place: | Wortham, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Wortham Cemetery | Place: | Wortham, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | Huldah Katherine BOUNDS | |||
| Married: | November 19, 1874 | Place: | ||
| 10 Name: | F | Emaline "Emmie" LEE | ||
| Born: | February 24, 1849 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | November 18, 1881 | Place: | Cotton Gin, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Cotton Gin Cemetery | Place: | Cotton Gin, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | Alex C. BLACKLIDGE | |||
| Married: | 1868-1869 | Place: | Leon Co., TX | |
| 11 Name: | M | Jacob C. "Walker" LEE | ||
| Born: | August 15, 1850 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | March 4, 1925 | Place: | Wortham, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Wortham Cemetery | Place: | Wortham, Freestone Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | Cynthia Ann RAYNER | |||
| Married: | December 17, 1874 | Place: | Freestone Co., TX | |
| 12 Name: | F | Margaret Ann LEE | ||
| Born: | March 28, 1854 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | September 3, 1934 | Place: | ||
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| Spouse 1: | Isaac GORE | |||
| Married: | August 15, 1871 | Place: | Freestone Co., TX | |
| 13 Name: | M | George Wilson LEE | ||
| Born: | September 24, 1856 | Place: | Hickory, Newton Co., MS | |
| Died: | July 23, 1938 | Place: | Flo, Leon Co., TX | |
| Cemetery: | Wheelock Cemetery | Place: | Flo, Leon Co., TX | |
| Spouse 1: | Mary Theodicia SPENCE | |||
| Married: | August 29, 1879 | Place: | Navarro Co., TX | |
| NOTES: Several of the Lee children had moved to Texas before the War of Northern Aggression. Some had married in Mississippi, but they all eventually moved to Texas except three. After the havoc wrought by the war and on hearing of the death of his sister Polly's husband in Leon Co., TX, Jacob, Nancy, and their five youngest children moved by wagon train to Leon Co., TX accompanied by their widowed daughter, Addie, and her child. It is not known what other families were in the wagon train. The youngest Lee child, George, always told that when the wagon pulled out from their home in Hickory, their old Negro "Mammy", who had suckled them after the Emancipation Proclamation, ran behind the wagon with outstretched arms, begging "Please take me with you!" Unable to do so, Jacob had to drive on ignoring her pleas. Their last sight of her was lying in the middle of the road, where she had fallen from exhaustion from running after them. On reaching Leon Co. the Lees
settled on Lyn Branch, a tributary of Buffalo Creek, and lived there for
a year. Then they moved nearer Jacob's sister, Mary "Polly" Lee
Graham and her family. This was somewhere between present Flo and
Midway. At that time it was called Kidd's Mill community.
They lived there for a year. Not being satisfied in that area the
Jacob Lee family moved to Cotton Gin in Freestone Co. where they would
be near several of Nancy's brothers and sisters who had settled there a
few years earlier. They made their home in Cotton Gin for
the remainder of their lives. |
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| SOURCES: Newton Co., MS, 1860 census Leon Co., TX 1870 census Birdston Cemetery Mark and Lilly Phelps Michael Edwards Gary Blakely Ruth Thompson Jason Gervase The Jacob Lee Family -- Ancestors and Descendants by Cecil and Fay Parrish Smith A Journey to the Past by Oliver Aden Gore Nancy Adeline Lee Tyson Williams, Transcript of Indian Testimony before the Department of Interior, 4/22/1901 Patsy Jo Cate Creech Beatty |
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