David Fletcher Lee

Brief Life History of David Fletcher

When David Fletcher Lee was born on 23 April 1842, in Lebanon, Russell, Virginia, United States, his father, James Lee, was 76 and his mother, Chloe Sue Fraley, was 32. He married Mary A Kennedy on 29 February 1860, in Russell, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 6 Maddox, Carter, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Olive Hill, Carter, Kentucky, United States in 1910. He died on 18 December 1926, in Ashland, Boyd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Boyd, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

David Fletcher Lee
1842–1926
Mary Elizabeth Wilburn
1860–1940
Marriage: 25 May 1876
William Roe Lee
1876–1965
Alexander Dudley Lee
1877–1958
Joseph William Lee
1879–1924
David Fletcher Lee
1883–1907
Harry P Lee
1886–
Carl J Lee
1890–
Monroe Lee
1891–
Harvey M Lee
1892–
Mason Kirk Lee
1894–1981
Robert Edward Lee
1895–1976
Edith Anne Lee
1900–1978

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  • David F Pin, "United States Census, 1900"
  • David F, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
  • I. F. Lee, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1786-1965"

World Events (8)

1844 · Lumpkin's Jail

In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.

1850 · 8th Most Populated State

According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.

1864 · Arlington Cemetery

Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.

English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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