Isham Bailey Lee never wore a tie - his daughter Eldora Jane had the bow tie painted on a charcoal drawing made from a tin-type picture. I.B. or "Bail" Lee maintained that only beasts of burden, mules and oxen, wore yokes in reference to neckties!
Believing firmly in not joining the church until one heard the "still small voice," I.B. Lee joined Wehadkee Primitive church, September 21, 1895 at the age of seventy-eight. Many of his grandchildren recalled their grandfather being baptized while seated in a chair.
I. B. and Mary Lee lived on the Lee farm that joined Mary's sister, Jane America Barrett and Thomas Valentine Barrett and their fifteen children. For generations there was and is a bond between these two families.
It was a constant challenge to Launa Taylor Lee, his daughter-in-law, to try to entice I.B. to eat vegetables and desserts. His diet consisted of coffee, eggs, meats and breads - vegetables and desserts left untouched - yet he lived to be 86 years old.
Excerpted from an article by Nancy Lee Bailey, Columbus, GA, published in The History of Randolph County, AL.
Isham Bailey Lee never wore a tie - his daughter Eldora Jane had the bow tie painted on a charcoal drawing made from a tin-type picture. I.B. or "Bail" Lee maintained that only beasts of burden, mules and oxen, wore yokes in reference to neckties!
Believing firmly in not joining the church until one heard the "still small voice," I.B. Lee joined Wehadkee Primitive church, September 21, 1895 at the age of seventy-eight. Many of his grandchildren recalled their grandfather being baptized while seated in a chair.
I. B. and Mary Lee lived on the Lee farm that joined Mary's sister, Jane America Barrett and Thomas Valentine Barrett and their fifteen children. For generations there was and is a bond between these two families.
It was a constant challenge to Launa Taylor Lee, his daughter-in-law, to try to entice I.B. to eat vegetables and desserts. His diet consisted of coffee, eggs, meats and breads - vegetables and desserts left untouched - yet he lived to be 86 years old.
Excerpted from an article by Nancy Lee Bailey, Columbus, GA, published in The History of Randolph County, AL.
Family Members
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Emily Mandeville Lee Pittman
1852–1929
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George Emory Lee
1853–1925
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William Thomas "Will" Lee Sr
1854–1944
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Sarah A. Victoria "Babe" Lee Lipham
1856–1875
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Mary Elizabeth Lee Crouch
1858–1943
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Temperance Rebecca Lee Pittman
1860–1903
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Martha Alice "Mattie" Lee Jackson Avery
1862–1949
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Jesse Frank Lee
1866–1935
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Isabelle Narcissus Lee Arnett
1868–1899
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Jane Eldorah Lee Taylor
1870–1948
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John Phineas Lee
1872–1920
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