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Position:Home>Genealogy> Robert edward lee How many brothers or sisters did he have. what were their nameQuestion: Robert edward lee How many brothers or sisters did he have. what were their names and their occupations.?
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There are lots of entries for him on http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c... This is one of the better entries for Marse Robert's father, Henry: Name: Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee , III, Maj. General Birth: 1756 in Stratford, Virginia Death: 25 MAR 1818 in Cumberland Island, Georgia Burial: Greenes private cemetery at Dungeness, Cumberland Island, Georgia Note: Also known as (Light Horse Harry).American Revolutionary soldier, known as Light-Horse Harry Lee. A daring cavalry officer, he fought in the Carolina campaign after 1780. He was Governor of Virginia for 3 terms. On April 11, 1809 he was arrested for debt and imprisoned in the Westmoreland County jail. He was arrested again before the year was over and sent to the Spotsylvania prison. There he wrote his memoirs. When he got out of prison in 1810 he moved his wife Ann Carter and their children into a little house on Cameron Street in Alexandria, Virginia. His memoirs were published in 1812 by a Philadephia publisher. In the late summer of 1813, after suffering near fatal wounds and facial mutilation inflicted by a mob, he went to the warmer climate of Barbados. He died in 1818 while in route home at Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, the home of an old friend. Marriage 1 Matilda Lee b: 1764 in of Stratford, Virginia Married: 1782 Children Lucy Grymes Lee b: 1786 in Stratford, Virginia Henry (Black Horse Harry) Lee , IV, Major b: 1787 in Stratford, Virginia Marriage 2 Ann Hill Carter b: OCT 1773 in of Shirley Plantation, Tyler Co., Virginia Married: 18 JUN 1793 in Shirley Plantation, Tyler Co., Virginia Children Algernon Sidney Lee b: 2 APR 1795 in Stratford, Virginia Charles Carter Lee b: 1798 in Stratford Plantation, Virginia Anne Kinloch Lee b: 1800 in Stratford Plantation, Virginia Sydney Smith Lee b: 1802 in Stratford Plantation, Virginia Robert E. Lee , b: 1807 in Stratford Plantation, Virginia Catherine Mildred Lee b: 27 FEB 1811 in Alexandria, Virginia Sources: Title: Robert E. Lee a Pictorial Biography Author: Philip Van Doren Stern Publication: Bonanza Books 1963 Title: The Lees of Virginia Author: Burton J. Hendrick Publication: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1935 Title: Growing Up In The 1850s (The Journal of Agnes Lee) Author: edited by Mary Custis Lee deButts Publication: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 1984 |