LEE, GEORGE
WASHINGTON, Baptist minister, was born
October 30, 1842, in Covington County, and died at
McKenzie, Butler County; son of Greenbery and Martha
Jane (Taylor) Lee, the former a native of Putnam
County, Ga., who went to Alabama and resided at West-
over, Covington County; grandson of Richard and Martha
Taylor, of Putnam County, Ga. Mr. Lee received a
limited education in the country schools; was ordained
a Primitive Baptist minister, November 15, 1871; was
in the ministry for forty years, serving churches in
Butler, Covington, Crenshaw and Conecuh Counties, and
other places; was clerk of the Antioch Primitive
Association for thirty years; and was pastor for
thirty years of Elizabeth church. For ten years he
taught school, and for two terms was tax collector of
Butler County. He represented Butler County in the
State legislature in 1903. During the War of
Secession, he was a member of Co. B, and Co. C,
Seventeenth Alabama infantry regiment, C. S. Army, and
lost his arm at Vicksburg. He was a Democrat. Married:
(1) February 17, 1864, to Rhoda A. E. Mitchell,
daughter of R. M. J. Mitchell; (2) to Rebecca L.,
daughter of Joseph Howell, of Butler County. Last
residence: McKenzie.
Source: History of Alabama
and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory
Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J.
Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer
LEE, WILLIAM
ITHAMER , teacher, was
born August 13, 1876, in Covington County; son of
Samuel Asberry and Hulda (Deal) Lee of McKenzie, the former
aConfeder>ate soldier; grandson of Eli and Sarah
(Piles) Lee, of Covington County, and of George W. and
Tabitha Deal, of Butler County. The Lees came from
England and settled inSouth Carolina, later moving to
Georgia and from there to Alabama. Mr. Lee received
his education in the public schools of Butler County;
in Georgiana high school; and the State normal school,
Troy. He began teaching in 1898; taught eleven years
in the public schools of Butler, Covington and Geneva
Counties, and for nine years as principal of the
McKenzie public school; was mayor of McKenzie, 1912;
and was elected to legislature from Butler County,
1918. He is a Democrat; a Methodist; and a Woodman of
the World. Married: October 21, 1903, at McKenzie, to
Ethel Estelle, daughter of James R. and Mit- tie
Harper of McKenzie; granddaughter of Robert Alexander
and Susie (Purnell) Harper, and of John and Sarah
(Sellers) McPherson. Children: 1. Mary Evelyn; 2.
Hulda Madia. Residence: McKenzie.
Source: History of Alabama
and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, By Thomas McAdory
Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, Published by The S. J.
Clarke publishing company, 1921; Submitted by Barb
Ziegenmeyer
