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Confederate Veteran, February, 1922.
JARED JACKSON LEE, born at Newberry
Courthouse, S.C., on Nov. 23, 1829, died at the home of his daughters in
Birmingham, Ala., on Nov. 7, 1921.
Orphaned in early youth, he made his
home with relatives in the western part of Dallas County, near Selma,
Ala., where he grew to manhood and where he married MISS LOUISIANA
MORGAN, daughter of GEORGE MORGAN, one of the prominent pioneer citizens
of that farming district. After his return from the war he moved to
Selma that his children might have better school advantages, but he
still engaged in farming.
J.J. LEE was mustered into the
Confederate service at Cahaba, Ala., as a member of Company A, Alabama
Regiment, but in July of 1862, he became a member of Capt. Thomas H.
Lewis Company, which later a part of Lewis's Battalion of Alabama
Cavalry....
He became a Christian early in life
and was a member of the Baptist church. He was a Mason and was proud of
the organization.
Comrade Lee is buried by the side of
his wife in Oak Hill Cemetery at Selma. Surviving him are two sons, five
daughters and nine grandchildren.
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