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Dan Lee

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Dan Lee

Birth
Connecticut, USA
Death
22 Feb 1888 (aged 90)
Vassar, Tuscola County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Vassar, Tuscola County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block I, Sec 6
Memorial ID
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Dan married Julia Thompson in New York about 1830. They had one known child, Mark John Lee. Julia died in East Penfield, Monroe County, New York on March 24, 1845. She was 41 years old.

On August 15, 1854 Dan purchased an 80-acre tract in Section 12 of Arbela Township (township 10 north, range 7 east, Tuscola County, Michigan where he settled. He died on his farm on February 22, 1888.

Note: On many online sources, Dan Lee has been confused with Daniel Wilson Lee, born on July 22, 1798 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut to Bliss Lee and Martha Barnes. Daniel Wilson Lee married Mary Johnson in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut on March 13, 1823, and they appear in the 1830 and 1840 Connecticut census records, both times in Plymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

According to the Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions, Daniel Wilson Lee died on November 4, 1842, and is buried at Hillside Cemetery, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut. His wife Mary (Johnson) Lee is enumerated in the 1850 census for Plymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Her death on December 26, 1864 and her burial at Hillside Cemetery are recorded in the Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 at Ancestry.com.

The above information courtesy of C. Ashley, FAG # 46820439.
Dan married Julia Thompson in New York about 1830. They had one known child, Mark John Lee. Julia died in East Penfield, Monroe County, New York on March 24, 1845. She was 41 years old.

On August 15, 1854 Dan purchased an 80-acre tract in Section 12 of Arbela Township (township 10 north, range 7 east, Tuscola County, Michigan where he settled. He died on his farm on February 22, 1888.

Note: On many online sources, Dan Lee has been confused with Daniel Wilson Lee, born on July 22, 1798 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut to Bliss Lee and Martha Barnes. Daniel Wilson Lee married Mary Johnson in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut on March 13, 1823, and they appear in the 1830 and 1840 Connecticut census records, both times in Plymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

According to the Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions, Daniel Wilson Lee died on November 4, 1842, and is buried at Hillside Cemetery, Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut. His wife Mary (Johnson) Lee is enumerated in the 1850 census for Plymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Her death on December 26, 1864 and her burial at Hillside Cemetery are recorded in the Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 at Ancestry.com.

The above information courtesy of C. Ashley, FAG # 46820439.

Inscription


DAN LEE
DIED
FEB. 22, 1888
Aged 90 Yrs 9 Mos

MARK J. LEE
DIED
Sept. 28, 1888
AGED
57 Yrs 1 Mo 23 Ds
_________________ ?
_________________ ?

Gravesite Details

At the bottom of the monument is a two-line epitaph that cannot be deciphered from the photo.



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