Freestone County, Texas Obituaries [This is Joseph "Joab" Blackman Lee (20 Nov 1833-4 Jun 1903) ] Fairfield Recorder, Friday, June 5, 1903... An Old Citizen Gone Mr Joe Lee and Old Pioneer Citizen of Freestone Dies Mr Joe Lee, living a few miles northeast of Fairfield, died last Wednesday night after a long illness, having been stricken with paralysis several months. Mr Lee was one of Freestone's early settlers, having come here before the Civil War, from Alabama.