Perry County AlArchives Biographies.....Lee, Henry Clinton 1803 - November 7, 1854
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Author: "Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record and Public Men From 1540 to 1872,: by Willis Brewer, published 1872, page 492

Henry Clinton Lee of this county was born in Clarke county, Georgia, in 1803, 
and his father and mother were the brother and sister respectively of he 
parents of Col. Columbus Lea.  He was graduated at the University of Georgia, 
in a class with Gen. Toombs of that state.  In 1829 he came to this State, read 
law, and was elected district solicitor soon after he obtained license; a 
position he filled for several years.  From 1836 to 1842 he was in the senate 
from this county, and was the unsuccessful candidate of his party in 1843.  He 
again represented the county from 1847 to 1851, and was elected district 
solicitor in 1853.  His death occurred a year later, December 1854.  Mr. Lee 
was six feet, four inches in hight, and presented a handsome and commanding 
exterior.  His mental gifts were varied and brilliant, and his professional 
career was very successful.  Fluent, eloquent, popular, and sociable, he was a 
favorite with Fortune.  His wife was a daughter of Col. Thomas Reed Roots of 
Virginia, another of whose daughters was the mother of Gen. Howell and Col. T. 
R. R. Cobb of Georgia, and yet another the mother of Gen. H., R. Jackson of 
that State.  Of his three sons, one was killed at Nashville, and another is an 
attorney in Dallas; and he has other descendants I nthis county.  Hon. Martin 
A. Lee of this county was his brother, and Gen. Sam Houston of Texas married 
his sister.

Additional Comments:
Henry married Serena R. Rootes on August 26, 1828 in Clarke County, Georgia.  

Serena's sister, Sarah, was married to John Cobb and they were the parents of 
Howell Cobb and Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb. Serens's sister, Martha Jaquelin 
Rootes married Henry Jackson and they were the parents of Henry Rootes 
Jackson.  Henry's sister Margaret Moffette Lea married Sam Houston in Perry County 
on May 9, 1840 when Margaret was 21 and Sam was 42.  She was his third wife.

Henry's tombstone in the Marion Cemetery, Perry County, spells his last 
name "Lea." Census records also use "Lea."  Children from census records:

Lucy A. Lea, born about 1832

Sumpter, born Feb 26, 1835, became a lawyer and was in Dallas County in 1870, 
died May 20, 1920 and is buried in Jefferson County, Alabama.

Martin A., born about 1839
Henry Clinton, born about 1841
Martha J., born about 1843
Mary Willis, born about 1850

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