Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Lee, Elisha L. January 27 1840 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   ELISHA L. LEE, M. D., physician of Bridgeport, Ala., was born near Dunlap.
Tenn., January 27, 1840, and educated at the academy at Pikeville, Tenn. Leaving
school in July, 1861, he remained in Bledsoe county a few months, and then
removed to Marion county, Tenn., where he taught school until 1837. He then
attended medical lectures in Nashville, Tenn., and in 1869 removed to Jackson
county, Ala., and began the practice of medicine. In 1872 he graduated from the
university of Tennessee, and then returned to Jackson county, Ala., where he has
been engaged in the practice of his profession ever since. From 1879 to 1889, he
was in partnership with Dr. Spilling, in Bridgeport, in the drug business. Dr.
Lee was a member of the Jackson county Medical society until its
re-organization, a few years since. He is a director and vice-president of the
First National bank of Bridgeport, and since 1882, he has been largely
interested in farming. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south. He was married, in 1873, to Miss Millie A.
Bean, daughter of Oen R. Bean, of Marion county, Tenn., and to this marriage
there have been born six children, viz.: Fanny H.; John R.; William R.; Samuel
B.; Clara L. and Lora M. Of recent years Dr. Lee has been practically out of
practice. His father, Guilford Lee, was born in Bledsoe county, Tenn., in 1812,
and lived there until his death, in 1875. He followed farming most of his life.
He married Alice Deakins, a native of Tennessee, and to them were born six
children, viz.: Dr. E. L.; Mary J., deceased wife of Stephen Richards, of
Loony's Creek, Tenn.; John, of Belton, Tex.; Louisa K.; Martha R.; Emma: A. Mrs.
Lee died in 1876. The father of Guilford Lee, John Lee, was born in Virginia in
1789. He removed to Tennessee with his parents when a youth. He was a farmer all
his life, and died in 1852. John Lee's father was William Lee, a native of
Virginia, and he himself set tied in Tennessee, and lived there till his death.
The family is related to that of the great general, Robert E. Lee.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1141-1142
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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