U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Lee Family --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Pages 847-848, THE LEE FAMILY. Dudley Lee, the grandfather of the Lee families now of Preston County, was of English descent. He came to America in Colonial times and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was married twice. His second wife was a widow, Mrs. Sarah White. She was a Graham. By her he had two sons and five daughters. Their names were Abraham, Nicholas, Katie, Rebecca, Judith, Margaret and Sarah. At the time Nicholas Lee was born, October 15, 1803, Dudley Lee's son Thornton Brooks by his former wife was a full grown man and a soldier in the War of 1812. His father died soon after the was at Fort Pendleton, Maryland. After the death of Dudley Lee, Nicholas his son came to West Virginia and on September 30, 1838, married Frances daughter of Caleb and Mildred King. She was born March 1, 1820, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and died in Kanawa County, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1847, at the age of thirty-eight years. The children by this marriage were Christopher Columbus Lee, born June 25, 1840; Margaret Catherine July 12, 1842; Samuel B. September 10, 1846; and Mary Frances deceased who was born in 1846. C. C. Lee is a well to do farmer living at Cranesville. His wife was a Miss Judith Titchenell. They have seven children: Margaret C. married W. H. Groves. He is also a farmer. They have seven children. Samuel B. married Martha Liston, daughter of Elisha and Margaret Titchenell, on the 3rd of May 1868. They lived first on Muddy Creek below Kingwood at the home place, the father at that time being an engineer for the B. & O. R. R. Company. He was killed on the road February 29, 1880. Samuel B. Lee moved to Kansas and lived near Oxford that state from 18__ to 1881, when he came to Terra Alta and went into the milling business as one of the members of the firm of Jones, Freeland & Company. In 1900 he bought a farm of 220 acres near Oakland, Maryland, and staid there until his wife died, and then bought his present residence in Terra Alta in 1907 and came here in 1909. His children are (1) Emma Florence, born November 29, 1869; (2) Abraham Judson, born April 10, 1872, married Elizabeth Hertzog. He is a mechanic and lives at Morristown, Pennsylvania. (3) Jennie S. born November 29, 1874, never married. (4) Mollie C. born August 12, 1876. She married Walter A. Grim and lives at Washington, North Carolina. (5) Frank Scott, born October 3, 1883 and died in Terra Alta December 9, 1902. Mr. Samuel B. Lee has officiated in the municipal affairs of Terra Alta, from time to time, during his stay here, and has been an active member also of the Methodist Episcopal Church. --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------