My Genealogy Hound

B. Frank Lee, a native of Jonesboro Township, has lived in this county over forty-five years. He was born August 5, 1844, and is the son of Dr. Charles Lee, an early settler and pioneer physician of this county, who attended to the physical needs of the citizens of his time until his death. He married Mrs. Eliza (Pierce) Cook, widow of William Cook. Charles Lee and wife became the parents of three children, one daughter, deceased, and two sons, B. F. and Claiborne N. The mother died about ten years ago. Frank Lee was reared in this township, and has been all his life a farmer, but did not have school opportunities when a boy. His half-brother, Thomas Cook, entered eighty acres of land, and at his mother’s death it descended to Mr. Lee by inheritance. It is a good farm, with about forty acres of rich bottom land under cultivation. Mr. Lee was married, October 7, 1869, to Mary, a daughter of Albert and Rebecca Pierce, residents of this township. Of the eleven children born to this union, ten are living. They are: Calvin, Susan, Charlie, Nancy, John, Harriet, Rebecca, Eliza, Josie, and a baby boy, Harrison Columbus Lee. Mr. Lee is a man of decided political and religious convictions, and supports all charitable and progressive enterprises. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and is a Republican in politics.