Lamar Co., TX - Letter: Dorothy Baker to Betty Cowan **************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************** Bible Letters from Dorothy (Rosson) Baker to Betty E. (Rhymes) Cowan - 1981 Friday Afternoon, (March) Page 1. Hello Betty, Thanks for the prompt reply. I will write directly to you. These 4 pages are copied from the Lee Family Bible, Dorothy Eaglebarger? Owns this bible. She lives in Calif. I need to get her address. She is my age 62. Peter A. Lee and Ann Mariah Frasure are parents of Susan V. and Mary Anne. Susan is my great grandmother & Annie is yours. Susan V. Lee Henshaw raised Willie Cox with her 2 daughters Lillie, my –-- (PAGE 2.) Grandmother (Lillie) & Emma as her own daughter. I just found out about Willie belonging to the Lee side. My Mother remembers such a little. Aunt Emma married a Mart Eaglebarger. They had three children; Ray, Myrtle & Fred. All deceased so far as I know. One son had some children. They are in Hugo, Okla. Area, I think. Ella Lee, Susan & Annie's sister married Jim Eaglebarger. This is Dorothy's Line. That's how she saved the bible thru her Uncle George. Ella & Jim E. had 6 children, we think. Bill Eaglebarger,deceased is--- PAGE 3. Dorothy's father. Peter A. Lee Jr. Disappeared so it's rumored. **I know nothing of John Wm. Lee unless he lived at Wills Point, Tex. Benjamin S. Lee was in Okla. The last record I have of him. I will send these dates & etc. later. I am at Mom's & most all my records are at home. Don't know anything of Richard Henry Lee & of course Peter Robert Lee died. In some of my old letters the Frashure is spelled Frazier. I own the Henshaw Bible but all records are of Henshaws except marriage of Susan V.---- PAGE 4. Lee & Wm. Henshaw. This clipping of Mariah Frasure Lee's death is a clipping in Lee bible Also. We do not think that all this is correct. As I told you we find him in the Tex. Census in 1860 –According to Neville in "History of Lamar Co.", he was attached to a Texas Unit as Lt. Jr. I will get the exact name of this Unit for you later. We had always been told that he belonged to Conf. Army as Lt. Col. In Virginia. He was supposed to be from Richmond, VA. We do not know his father's name. --- PAGE 5. So you see Mariah was living with Willie Cox Lewis when she died.Wonder if Hazel would remember where they were living. There was a Lee St. here. I know near where but can't tell by land records where the Lee's lived. Am sure the old house has been gone for yrs. We think Mariah is buried in (Fobian-sp?). Grave Yard on Stillhouse Rd. N.E. of Paris. P.A. Lee her husband is supposed to be at Evergreen-unmarked grave-South of Paris. Betty I have started too late-Ha!, One of our Gen. Society members says not to rule out the information in--- Page 6. This clipping too soon. There are lots of Lee's as you stated. I think Tommie, Nettie Lee's Son, tells me they found another P.A. Lee in Oregon. I have not checked the Civil War Pension Records. Have only been to Library once in Dallas It's very good. Did not find anything. There has been a Parchman Book Published on the Parchman side. We know some about them. Mother can remember that Uncle Benjamin Lee visited with them when she was a child. We had lots & lots of records & old letters for a long time. My Mother & Grandmother Lillie, burned them. I got a paddling for what few I got away with. Ora had the Parchman trunk --- PAGE 7. And would hardly let me touch it even after I was grown. Ha! Don't know what happened to it. Tommie has a Henshaw Will that Auntie gave him. Imagine the *Thrachure burned it up. Oh well, that's another story. Will write my version of all this to you some day. Ha! Family history, Dull. We have a very small library at Paris Jr. College. Paris Public Library has absolutely nothing. Did Annie Lee Cox die in child birth? Mother can tell me nothing. Mother says to tell you that Aunt Willie was a Grand & much loved lady. They felt so--- PAGE 8. much closer to her than Aunt Emma. Also Uncle Claud was a fine man & a good "lookin" man. She has fond memories of both. She said that Uncle Claud worked for R.R. William Henshaw & Susan V. Lee were married Jan. 5-1871. Mother had a marker put at their grave quiet a few yrs. Ago. They are buried at Evergreen. Ella Lee & Jim (James) Eaglebarger are buried in same lot along beside Susan & William Henshaw in an unmarked grave or rather graves. What became of Willie Cox Lewis' father? Lots of these things are not related to my direct line but it would be nice to know. Love, D.R.B. *Unsure of spelling-EFW; ** For those of us from the John Wm. Lee Line - This sentence proves our lineage to Peter Alexander Lee and Ann Mariah Frazier; It had been questioned due to the DNA test. Provided by Betty E. (Rhymes) Cowan; Transcribed-with some spelling and punctuation editing for readability, by, Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick;