Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Lee, Moses J. 1830 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
  CAPTAIN MOSES J. LEE, planter of Beat No. 3, was born in Greene county, Ga.,
in 1830. He is a son of Charles S. and Elizabeth (Broughton) Lee, both of whom
were natives of Greene county, Ga., the former born, in 1804, the latter in
1802. They were both fairly well educated, married in their native county, and
in 1835 moved to Chambers county, Ala., but the rest of the family crossed the
river into Georgia to escape the ravages of the Indians. Mr. Lee remained and
assisted in the Indian war. After a few years Mr. and Mrs. Lee removed to what
is now Bullock county, where they remained until 1850 and then removed to Coffee
county, settling about four miles south of Elba, and there owned a good farm.
They afterward removed to Elba, where they spent the rest of their lives, Mr.
Lee dying January 11, 1875, and Mrs. Lee in 1884. She was for many years a
member of the Missionary Baptist church. Mr. Lee was an enterprising and
progressive man, and accumulated a good deal of property, but he lost heavily
during the war. He was very popular and often urged to accept office, but he as
often refused. He was a jolly and genial gentleman, liberal and hospitable. He
was one of a large family born to William Lee, a native of Virginia and
belonging to the distinguished Lee family of that state. He removed from
Virginia to Greene county, Ga., where he died when Moses J. was a small boy. He
served in the Revolutionary war and was twice married, his first wife being the
grandmother of Moses J. Lee. John H. Broughton, the maternal grandfather of
Moses J. was a South Carolinian, where he married and whence he removed to
Greene county, Ga. Here he died when Moses J. was a young man. He also served in
the Revolutionary war, was a farmer and reared a large family. Moses J. Lee was
the oldest of five sons and five daughters, viz.: Moses J.; Mary, deceased wife
of James Larkins, also deceased; Captain Charles S. of Broughton, a merchant,
who has served as sheriff, treasurer and representative from Coffee county. He
had served in the war as first lieutenant in the First Alabama cavalry and then
as captain of a company in Clanton's cavalry until the close of the war;
Cordelia, widow of Judge P. D. Costello, who was probate judge of Coffee county,
which office he left to become captain of company A, Eighteenth Alabama. He was
killed at Murfreesboro; Luticia, wife of Captain C. M. Cox; Dr. William J., of
Abbeville, a practicing physician. He was capain of company K, Thirty-third
Alabama regiment, and was severely wounded in the right arm at Perryville, Ky.,
which disabled him for ilfe; John H., a farmer near Greenville, was a lieutenant
in his brother's Charles' company all through the war; Ed-ward D., of Elba, was
lieutenant of company K, Thirty-third Alabama regiment, and promoted on the
field for gallant conduct, having served in the ranks; Victoria, widow of
Captain J. E. F. Flournoy, who was a captain of cavalry in the war, serving
about one year, and who held several prominent official positions, and was a
prominent lawyer, of Elba, now deceased; Lena, deceased wife of Henry Armerine,
of Montgomery, who is a merchant. Moses J. Lee was reared on a farm, given a
common school education, and later studied at La Grange Male college. He began
life for himself at twenty years of age as a clerk in what is now Bullock
county. He was then in the collecting business for a short time after which he
began farming, a vocation he has followed ever since. He has also at different
times been in the mercantile business. In 1862 he married Georgia A., daughter
of James M. and Patience Coleman, natives of Wilkes and Morgan counties
respectively. When Mrs. Lee was still a little girl they came to what is now
Bullock county, in about 1844, and in 1860 came to Coffee county, where Mr.
Coleman died about 1868, his widow dying in 1892 in Gainesville, Ga. Mr. Coleman
in his. life was a merchant and later became a wealthy planter, losing heavily
through the war. Mrs. Lee was born in Morgan county, Ga., but was educated and
married at Union Springs, Ala. She has had ten children, eight of whom are now
living. Their names are as follows: Charles S., Robert E., Moses J., Lillie,
deceased, William J., Mary, John C., deceased, Jack D., Edward Lamar, and Anna.
Captain Lee was anxious to enter the service of the Confederate states early in
the war, but as all his brothers and several of his brothers-in-law were already
in that service, he was persuaded to remain at home and look after the family,
but later he was called into the state service and commanded a company which
performed provost duty among other things. Since the war he has lived on a farm
five miles north of Elba, where he owns some five or six thousands acres of good
land, some of it very fine pine timbered land. This he has purchased in small
pieces at different times, and has acquired it all by his own efforts. He is one
of the largest land owners in the county. Notwithstanding that he has never
aspired to political honors nor has taken an active part in politics in any way,
yet he liberally supports his party and is one of the most popular men of the
county. His family is one of prominence and many of them have been and are of
much more than ordinary ability and influence.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 673-675


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