Thomas Edwin Lee

Brief Life History of Thomas Edwin

When Thomas Edwin Lee was born on 23 April 1883, in Alabama, United States, his father, William John Adam Julius Lee, was 26 and his mother, Laura Anne Dyess, was 25. He married Edna Estell Moore in 1906, in Troy, Pike, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Hockley, Texas, United States in 1935 and Commissioner's Precinct 3, Crosby, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 26 October 1948, in Tulia, Swisher, Texas, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Tulia, Swisher, Texas, United States.

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Thomas Edwin Lee
1883–1948
Edna Estell Moore
1885–1914
Marriage: 1906
Cordia Lee
1905–1929
Bessie Mae Lee
1907–1999
Malcolm Otis Lee
1913–1966
Jessie Viola Lee
1916–2000

Sources (11)

  • Thomas Lee, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Thomas E. Lee, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Tom Lee in entry for Cordie Lee, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1887

Historical Boundaries: 1887: Swisher, Texas, United States

1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered

Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".

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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