Biography of B. Frank Lee - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 340

B. Frank Lee, a native of Jonesboro Township, has lived in this county
over forty-five years. He was born August 5, 1844, and is the son of Dr.
Charles Lee, an early settler and pioneer physician of this county, who
attended to the physical needs of the citizens of his time until his
death. He married Mrs. Eliza (Pierce) Cook, widow of William Cook.
Charles Lee and wife became the parents of three children, one daughter,
deceased, and two sons, B. F. and Claiborne N. The mother died about ten
years ago. Frank Lee was reared in this township, and has been all his
life a farmer, but did not have school opportunities when a boy. His
half-brother, Thomas Cook, entered eighty acres of land, and at his
mother's death it descended to Mr. Lee by inheritance. It is a good farm,
with about forty acres of rich bottom land under cultivation. Mr. Lee was
married, October 7, 1869, to Mary, a daughter of Albert and Rebecca
Pierce, residents of this township. Of the eleven children born to this
union, ten are living. They are: Calvin, Susan, Charlie, Nancy, John,
Harriet, Rebecca, Eliza, Josie, and a baby boy, Harrison Columbus Lee.
Mr. Lee is a man of decided political and religious convictions, and
supports all charitable and progressive enterprises. He is a member of
the Missionary Baptist Church, and is a Republican in politics.