Wilkinson COUNTY  GA  Bios  Lee Family

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WALTER M. LEE



"The mother of Dr. P.A. Jessup was a member  of New
Providence. She was a descendant of John Lee, who died
while moving from Jefferson or Burke County to settle on
the lands owned later by the James Knight family, located
on the bank of Maiden Creek, where the road from
Allentown and Pleasant Plains church to Irwinton crosses
the Creek. John Lee was father of seven children---Lewis,
Needham, Lovard, John, and Godfrey; and Winnie and
Sarah.The sons and daughters of Lewis Lee and his wife
Jane Triplett Lee were Walter Washington, Greenberry,
Darling Peeples, Elizabeth, Susan, Rachel, Sarah, Martha,
and Mary Jane. Lewis Lee moved to near Georgetown, Ga.,
about 1841, He is buried near the J. F. Hogan place.
Elizabeth Lee married a Mr. Russell and was the mother of
Rev. Gustavus Russell, a Methodist preacher of Louisiana,
and of Emiline Russell, who married W. S. C. Jessup, a
Baptist deacon, the father of Rev. P.A. Jessup. South
Georgia is greatly indebted to this celebrated and
untiring advocate of secondary education.

The above named John Lee, through his father Furney Lee,
who emigrated from Virginia to South Carolina, was
related to Richard Lee of Virginia, the ancestor of
Richard Henry, Light Horse Harry, and Robert Edward Lee.
The descendants of John Lee are scattered from Georgia
and Florida to Louisiana. Many reside within a radius of
fifty miles of Eufaula, Ala., both in Georgia and Albama.
Some of the most prominent political leaders of Alabama
have issued from this stock. Lovard Lee's descendants
drifted into Florida. Barbour County, Alabama, has many
of the descendants of Needham Lee. Sarah Burke Phillips
Lee,the wife of Walter Washington.

Lee, was a member of New Providence as early as 1855.
John C. Lee, wholesale grocer of Augusta, Ga., and a
deacon in the First Baptist church of that city, was a
member of this family. Other members married unto the
families of Tilly, Rutherford, Collins, Williams,
Davidson, Howard, Moncrief, Morgan, Burke, McCant, Henry,
Fishburne, etc.,etc. It may thus be seen how extensive an
area may be covered within the space of a century  by the
descendants of one man."

NOTE:
Walter M. Lee, A.M.,Th.D. when compiling the history of the New Providence Church
of Wilkinson County included the above sketch of his own
family history.

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