Aged 86 yr 11 mo 26 da
He is 6th great grandson of Richard Lee who sailed from England in the mid 1600s and settled in Virginia, the Virginia Lees. There are many famous Americans in his family such as "Lighthorse Harry" and Robert E Lee, our cousins.
George and Catharine had been married and raised their children in Monroe county, Kentucky since the 1840s. George Washington Lee traveled to Carrollton, MO from Kentucky with his wife to meet their daughter, Elizabeth Susan, in 1884. They came to visit their son, Turner Goodall Lee, Elizabeth's brother, who farmed near Carrollton on the old Jesse Johnson place.
GW and Catharine along with their daughter, Elizabeth Susan and her husband, Obediah Green Gregory bought 80 acres in 1885 and began to build the house that stood nearly 120 years, and sheltered 4 generations. That farm is right across from the family cemetery which is private land that was deeded on proviso to Bethlehem Church in 1891.
GW was not able to labor because of a handicap. Civil war records show that he was disabled from a severed knee that he suffered in 1960 while making some chairs for the family. I still have the actual draw knife with which he cut his knee. He walked with a cane for the next 58 years.
I have 2 of those Lee custom chairs that he built (and cut his knee) to this very day. I also have another chair that he bought. It is a custom Morris chair made in Sussex, England and had it delivered to the farm in the 1880s so he could sit comfortably. It was one of the original recliners.
He is 6th great grandson of Richard Lee who sailed from England in the mid 1600s and settled in Virginia, the Virginia Lees. There are many famous Americans in his family such as "Lighthorse Harry" and Robert E Lee, our cousins.
George and Catharine had been married and raised their children in Monroe county, Kentucky since the 1840s. George Washington Lee traveled to Carrollton, MO from Kentucky with his wife to meet their daughter, Elizabeth Susan, in 1884. They came to visit their son, Turner Goodall Lee, Elizabeth's brother, who farmed near Carrollton on the old Jesse Johnson place.
GW and Catharine along with their daughter, Elizabeth Susan and her husband, Obediah Green Gregory bought 80 acres in 1885 and began to build the house that stood nearly 120 years, and sheltered 4 generations. That farm is right across from the family cemetery which is private land that was deeded on proviso to Bethlehem Church in 1891.
GW was not able to labor because of a handicap. Civil war records show that he was disabled from a severed knee that he suffered in 1960 while making some chairs for the family. I still have the actual draw knife with which he cut his knee. He walked with a cane for the next 58 years.
I have 2 of those Lee custom chairs that he built (and cut his knee) to this very day. I also have another chair that he bought. It is a custom Morris chair made in Sussex, England and had it delivered to the farm in the 1880s so he could sit comfortably. It was one of the original recliners.
Aged 86 yr 11 mo 26 da
He is 6th great grandson of Richard Lee who sailed from England in the mid 1600s and settled in Virginia, the Virginia Lees. There are many famous Americans in his family such as "Lighthorse Harry" and Robert E Lee, our cousins.
George and Catharine had been married and raised their children in Monroe county, Kentucky since the 1840s. George Washington Lee traveled to Carrollton, MO from Kentucky with his wife to meet their daughter, Elizabeth Susan, in 1884. They came to visit their son, Turner Goodall Lee, Elizabeth's brother, who farmed near Carrollton on the old Jesse Johnson place.
GW and Catharine along with their daughter, Elizabeth Susan and her husband, Obediah Green Gregory bought 80 acres in 1885 and began to build the house that stood nearly 120 years, and sheltered 4 generations. That farm is right across from the family cemetery which is private land that was deeded on proviso to Bethlehem Church in 1891.
GW was not able to labor because of a handicap. Civil war records show that he was disabled from a severed knee that he suffered in 1960 while making some chairs for the family. I still have the actual draw knife with which he cut his knee. He walked with a cane for the next 58 years.
I have 2 of those Lee custom chairs that he built (and cut his knee) to this very day. I also have another chair that he bought. It is a custom Morris chair made in Sussex, England and had it delivered to the farm in the 1880s so he could sit comfortably. It was one of the original recliners.
He is 6th great grandson of Richard Lee who sailed from England in the mid 1600s and settled in Virginia, the Virginia Lees. There are many famous Americans in his family such as "Lighthorse Harry" and Robert E Lee, our cousins.
George and Catharine had been married and raised their children in Monroe county, Kentucky since the 1840s. George Washington Lee traveled to Carrollton, MO from Kentucky with his wife to meet their daughter, Elizabeth Susan, in 1884. They came to visit their son, Turner Goodall Lee, Elizabeth's brother, who farmed near Carrollton on the old Jesse Johnson place.
GW and Catharine along with their daughter, Elizabeth Susan and her husband, Obediah Green Gregory bought 80 acres in 1885 and began to build the house that stood nearly 120 years, and sheltered 4 generations. That farm is right across from the family cemetery which is private land that was deeded on proviso to Bethlehem Church in 1891.
GW was not able to labor because of a handicap. Civil war records show that he was disabled from a severed knee that he suffered in 1960 while making some chairs for the family. I still have the actual draw knife with which he cut his knee. He walked with a cane for the next 58 years.
I have 2 of those Lee custom chairs that he built (and cut his knee) to this very day. I also have another chair that he bought. It is a custom Morris chair made in Sussex, England and had it delivered to the farm in the 1880s so he could sit comfortably. It was one of the original recliners.
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