Obits: Obit of Mrs. M. J. Lee; Webster Par., Louisiana
Submitted by: Pat Foster-King
Date: Sept. 2000

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???--At her home at Walnut Hills, Ark.,
At half past 7 o'clock p.m., May ?, 1900,  Mrs. M. J. Lee, aged 60 years, seven months 
and four days. Mrs. Lee was born at Tuscumbia, Ala., October 11, 1830. She married 
James A. Lee, of Chester District, South Carolina, in 1849. In 1851 she removed with her
husband to Bossier Parish, Louisiana, and settled in the neighborhood now known as 
Cotton Valley.  This was the name given by the Lee's to their new western home."She 
united with the Christian Church in 1855 at Cotton Valley and lived the life of a true 
Christian until her death. In 1857 the family removed to Walnut Hills, Ark., and after 
a sojourn of 16 years in that state, returned (in 1873) to Bossier Parish and resided 
near Plain Dealing until Mr. Lee's death, which occurred in the month of February,1889. 
After the loss of her husband, Mother Lee again removed to Walnut Hills, and made 
that her home the remainder of her life. "Mrs. Lee was a lady of rare intellect, and she 
possessed many noble traits of characterr.  She was industrious, frugal and charitable; 
the needy were never turned away from her door unaided. Her natural intellectual 
endowments, amiable disposition, and love for the beautiful in life always attracted 
around her a coterie of the best society the country afforded. She was a dear and 
devoted mother, and was loved of all who knew her. She leaves three sons, R. E. Lee 
of Benton, La.,; G.M. and R. R (continued on page 2) Lee of Walnut hIlls, and six 
grandchildren to mourn her loss.

"GENE LEE" (signed) (Mrs. R. E. Lee)--From the Bossier Banner, May 31, 1900
***NOTE--The Gene Allan Lee referred to above was an Allen before her marriage ? 
R. L. (Dick) Lee of Benton, according to Mrs. Eleanor Allen Gleason of ?? in ????, 
and the marriage records of Bossier Parish. Dick Lee and wife ?? had a son to die in 
Benton, Ark., and a daughter who liven in Florida. ?? Gleason thinks Gene went to 
live with the son in Benton after her daughter ??? in Florida. Mrs. Gleason to Manry, 
March 22, 1971). The other Mrs. Lee I have not placed.

JOHN A MANRY, Box 447, Plain Dealing, La. 71064