Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lee, Luther, Jr. January 21, 1877
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Norfolk Virginian January 23, 1877
DEATH OF LUTHER LEE, JR. — Mr. Luther Lee, collector of customs of this port, 
died on Sunday morning at five o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. Rodney Jones, 
on Bank street, after a protracted illness from cancer of the liver. His funeral 
services took place at the house yesterday afternoon, at 4 o’clock, and were 
conducted by Rev. S. S. Lambeth, of the Granby Street M. E. Church. His remains 
will be taken this morning to his old home, at Northwest, in Norfolk county, to 
be there interred. They will be accompanied by Captain H. B. Nichols, 
postmaster; J. F. Dezendorf, appraiser of customs; George E. Bowden, , Esq., and 
George W. Black, marine clerk of the customhouse. The flags of the customhouse 
were at half-mast yesterday, in respect to the memory of the deceased.
Mr. Lee was a native of Jamestown, New York. His father was the Rev. Luther Lee, 
D.D., who is yet living at Milford, Michigan. At the breaking out of the war, he 
resided in California but returned to New York and assisted in raising the 
Second New York Cavalry, in which he was a captain. At the close of the war, he 
settled in Pleasant Grove Township, Norfolk county, and there married his first 
wife. He represented the Republicans in the State Convention and was also a 
member of the Legislature. His second wife is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. He 
leaves three children—one by the first, and two by the second wife.
Mr. Lee was appointed collector of customs for this port in 1870 and was 
reappointed in February 1874.

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