Georgia Family Group Sheet for the Stephen LEE Family


Husband: Stephen LEE
Birthdate: 14 October 1834
Birthplace: Anderson Co., South Carolina
Death date: 04 July 1876
Place of death: Forsyth Co., Georgia
Burial: Union Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Forsyth Co., Georgia
Father: James LEE
Mother: Susan STONE
Other Spouses:

Marriage date: 13 July 1858
Marriage place: Milton County, Georgia

Wife: Elizabeth BRASWELL
Birthdate: 22 January 1840
Birthplace: Anderson Co., South Carolina
Death date: 26 October 1871
Place of death: Forsyth Co., Georgia
Burial: Union Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Forsyth Co., Georgia
Father: James BRASWELL
Mother: Nancy LEE
Other Spouses:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Cicero LEE
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 1860
Birthplace: Forsyth County, Georgia
Death date: Bef. 1930?
Place of death: Georgia?
Burial: unknown Georgia
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: unknown?

Child No. 2: Georgia Ann LEE
Sex: Female
Birthdate: 01 April 1862
Birthplace: Forsyth County, Georgia
Death date: 15 March 1896
Place of death: Forsyth County, Georgia
Burial: Sharon Baptist Church Cemetery, Forsyth Co., Georgia
Marriage date: 29 December 1881
Marriage place: Forsyth Co., Georgia
Spouses' names: Robert Grahmn BUICE

Child No. 3: Robert LEE
Sex: Male
Birthdate: 1868
Birthplace: Forsyth Co., Georgia
Death date: After 1900 and Bef. 1910
Place of death: Forsyth Co., Georgia
Burial: Forsyth Co., Georgia
Marriage date: 1895 (according to 1900 census)
Marriage place: Georgia
Spouses' names: Effie A. (Last Name unknown)
 
 
Documentation:
* Research of John Burnett of Reno, NV and the late Victor Lavon Lee.

Notes:
* Stephen Lee served in the Confederate Army in Co. I, 3rd GA Regt. State Troops and later in Co. G., 56th REgt. GA Infantry as a Private.
* He was struck by lighting and killed while plowing his fields on July 4, 1876. An obituary for him listed a wife and four children. It is unknown if he had remarried after the death of Elizabeth (Braswell) Lee or if this was a mistake in the obituary. No record has been found of another marriage or wife or child. After his death his three children, Cicero, Georgia Ann, and Robert went to live with their great aunt, Nancy (Braswell) Gilbert and her husband Isham Gilbert. They are listed in the 1880 census living with the Gilberts.
* Robert Lee and his wife Effie A. had three daughters: Velvie, Annie A. and Lillie E. After the death of Robert and Effie the girls were placed in other homes. Velvie Lee went to live with John C. Gilbert and his wife Sarah (Burton) Gilbert and Annie Lee and Lillie E. Lee were placed with Greenberry Burgess and his wife Sallie V. (Buice) Burgess who adopted an raised these two girls.
* Stephen Lee and his wife Elizabeth Braswell were first cousins. Stephen's father and Elizabeth's mother were brother and sister.
* Stephen Lee and Elizabeth Braswell's parents are both buried are Union Hill Baptist Church Cemetery in Forsyth Co., Georgia. Stephen parents, James and Susan (Stone) Lee's graves are marked, but Elizabeth Braswell parents, James and Nancy (Lee) Braswell graves are not.
 

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