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Subject: Re: [GAWILKIN-L] Lee Family from Historical Sketch of New Providence Baptist Church
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 07:27:11 -0500
Do you know anything more about John Lee? James Knight and Winnie Lee are relatives of mine. And as a child, I was raised on the very land mentioned in the sketch below. It had belonged to my father at the time. I would greatly appreciate any further information. This has been one of my loose ends for some time now.
Thanks again,
HeatherMae Jackson
wrote:
> Walter M. Lee, A.M.,Th.D. when compiling the history of the above church
of Wilkinson County included the following verbatim sketch of his own
family history:
"The mother of Dr. P.A. Jessup was a member of New Providence. She was
a descendant of John Lee, who died while moving from Jefferson or Burke
County to settle on the lands owned later by the James Knight family,
located on the bank of Maiden Creek, where the road from Allentown and
Pleasant Plains church to Irwinton crosses the Creek. John Lee was
father of seven children---Lewis, Needham, Lovard, John, and Godfrey;
and Winnie and Sarah.The sons and daughters of Lewis Lee and his wife
Jane Triplett Lee were Walter Washington, Greenberry, Darling Peeples,
Elizabeth, Susan, Rachel, Sarah, Martha, and Mary Jane. Lewis Lee moved
to near Georgetown, Ga., about 1841, He is buried near the J. F. Hogan
place. Elizabeth Lee married a Mr. Russell and was the mother of
Rev. Gustavus Russell, a Methodist preacher of Louisiana, and of Emiline
Russell, who married W. S. C. Jessup, a Baptist deacon, the father of
Rev. P.A. Jessup. South Georgia is greatly indebted to this celebrated
and untiring advocate of secondary education.
The above named John Lee, through his father Furney Lee, who
emigrated from Virginia to South Carolina, was related to Richard Lee of
Virginia, the ancestor of Richard Henry, Light Horse Harry, and Robert
Edward Lee. The descendants of John Lee are scattered from Georgia and
Florida to Louisiana. Many reside within a radius of fifty miles of
Eufaula, Ala., both in Georgia and Albama. Some of the most prominent
political leaders of Alabama have issued from this stock. Lovard Lee's
descendants drifted into Florida. Barbour County, Alabama, has many of
the descendants of Needham Lee. Sarah Burke Phillips Lee,the wife of
Walter Washington
Lee, was a member of New Providence as early as 1855. John C. Lee,
wholesale grocer of Augusta, Ga., and a deacon in the First Baptist
church of that city, was a member of this family. Other members married
unto the families of Tilly, Rutherford, Collins, Williams, Davidson,
Howard, Moncrief, Morgan, Burke, McCant, Henry, Fishburne, etc.,etc. It
may thus be seen how extensive an area may be covered within the space
of a century by the descendants of one man."
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