Francis Lee AGAIN - What happened?

http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000012412500185

Jacqueli - your Revision List show that you merged the two Francises together again. Did you intend to do this?

That is why I asked you for permission to work on them and to fix them - we found the information that yes he was the same - Stephen Dill Lee - remember the publishing and the 300 descendants that were attached?

Hatte Anne Blejer

Here's our conversation to recall:

Hatte Anne Blejer (Rubenstein)
4/25/2011 at 9:49 PM

The more I read the more I saw the evidence was overwhelming and the Barbados branch has traced itself to the three brothers - Timothy, Francis, and Joseph (?) I put the links and the short version on the About Me of Francis. I also wrote to Francis' manager and volunteered to help them link up.

Jacqueli Charlene Finley
4/25/2011 at 9:47 PM

I just didn't want 300 descendants angry - plus on my personal GEDCOM I have the lineage as Francis son of Richard and Laetitia - so I knew I had it somewhere - then I do not have a scanner - so had to find a readable internet for you!

Hatte Anne Blejer (Rubenstein)
4/25/2011 at 9:45 PM

Very cool. This family is like a mystery or puzzle. I had to figure out the Letitias and I though my head would split.

Jacqueli Charlene Finley
4/25/2011 at 9:43 PM

http://books.google.com/books?id=bT2OkqGPcaUC&pg=PA3&am......

General Stephen D. Lee by herman Hattaway

Jacqueli - it's your family, your decision.

We understand the thread about the two Francises totally differently.

The Francis in Barbados had two brothers - Timothy and Joseph. What do you make of that? Are they also the sons of Laetitia and Richard?

The genealogy of Francis of Barbados has been studied. His own family websites say that they used to think their ancestor Francis was a descendant of Richard Lee I, but now they know he is not.

http://www.geni.com/discussions/93867

Read the whole thread.

I sent you a message Hatte - out of Hattaway's publishing and noted as a source on Francis's profile :

apter I - Young Warrior - Page 3

"Stephen Dill Lee was born in Charleston, South Carolina into the fifth generation of a proud southern family. His ancestor Thomas Lee founded the family's American branch by immigrating from St. Michael's, Barbados sometime before 1738. Stephens paternal grandfather, also named Thomas, was a gifted and talented judge. Thomas junior, the eighth of the judge's ten children, graduated as a doctor of medicine from the medical school of South Carolina in 1830. He married Caroline Allison, and thier first child, a son, arrived on 22 September 1833. Dr. Lee honored one of his older brothers and named the child Stephen. The family was distantly related to the Lees of Virginia, but for a long time they knew nothing of this connection. Years later, when asked if he were related to the great Robert E. Lee, Stephen replied that he was not but "would consider it a great honor to be". Much later in his life, Stephen became interested in genealogy and helped to prepare a family tree, a study which revealed a kinship Francis Lee, Stephen's great-great-great grandfather and Robert Lee, Mayor of London in 1602, and an ancestor of Virginia's Robert E. Lee."

http://www.surnames.com/documented_websites/arminta/lee_lineage_sto...

About 1650 or later three Lee brothers came from England to the Barbados. (These islands still belong to England). After staying there some time they also went to Virginia. Their names were Francis, Timothy, and Joseph. The climate being too severe, they went back to the Barbados, where they married. Francis had a son Thomas who had a very large family. From this father and sons we had seventy men who served in the Civil War. General Stephen D. Lee of S. C., Col. Charles Lee, of North Carolina; Col. P. Lynch Lee of 20th Arkansas; Major Hutton Lee, Chief Quarter-Master Dept. of S. C., Georgia and Florida and many other officers of lower rank as well as several surgeons.

From Gen. Stephen D. Lee we have the late W. S. Lee of Duke Power Co. of Charlotte and his sons, States Lee and Martin Lee. I have studied the Lee tree in possession of W. S. Lee’s family and there are only three lines carried out.

This data was given to me in 1914 by Miss Helen Lee, a daughter of Major Hutton Lee of Charleston, S. C.

Some members of our family thought we came from Francis Lightfoot Lee, an Uncle of Robert E. Lee’s father. After much search I found that Francis Lightfoot Lee had no children.

Hatte Anne Blejer that is quoting the ELJ again here is Francis to Stephen:

Milton Siegfried
10
Direct Descendants of Francis Lee
1 Francis Lee 1692 -
.. +Mary Barnell
........ 2 Thomas Lee
............ +Mary Giles
................... 3 William Lee Col
....................... +Ann Theus
............................. 4 Thomas Lee Judge
................................. +Kezia Miles
........................................ 5 [2] Thomas Miles Lee
............................................ +[1] Caroline Alison
.................................................. 6 [3] Stephen Dill Lee
................... 3 Mary Lee
....................... +Joshua II Lockwood
............................. 4 Margaret Regina Lee Lockwood
................................. +Jacob Hyleman Alison Capt
........................................ 5 [1] Caroline Alison
............................................ +[2] Thomas Miles Lee
.................................................. 6 [3] Stephen Dill Lee
........................................ 5 Jacob Smiser Alison
............................................ +Mary Youngblood
.................................................. 6 Jacob Smiser, Jr Alison
...................................................... +Jennie A. Youngblood
............................................................. 7 [1] Caroline Alison
................................................................. +[2] Thomas Miles Lee
........................................................................ 8 [3] Stephen Dill Lee

Sorry about the top Milton part - that is not relevant - :)

Hatte, I was concerned when you asked about Francis and quoted ELJ and his statement that Francis died w/o marrying - but I also said going ahead and detach because of that concern but also stating I wanted to look at all the research because I had also the information that he did marry Mary Barnell - when I siad I was going to fix him back after I researched my records and sources and the why his line is relevant. I didn't mean for you to feel I didn't appreciate you first initial questioning - so I fact'ed him up and the why's. His line is relevant to the Lee lineage and as we both were concerned - there are over 300 descendants - and living individuals - that have the same information.
I didn't cost you any work by doing the right thing and putting his line back in order as it should be as was before the confusion.

"Francis Lee, nothing is known of his life, excepting the mere mention of him in the wills of his father, brother and nephew. He was living as late as 1749, for his nephew mentioned him, at that date, as being "now in possession" of his estate, Paradise. He left no male heirs, for his brother, Philip Lee, of Maryland, willed (Philip Lee's will, dated the 20th of Mar, 1743, and recorded in Charles Co., the 1st of May, 1744) the reversion to Francis' estate to his own sons, thus: To "sons, Thomas and Richard and their heirs forever, to be equally divided between them, that tract of land in Gloucester county, Paradise; the reversion left me with my deceased father, Col. Richard Lee, of Virginia." One of his sons, Thomas (in his will, dated in August, 1749) bequeathed his "moiety of a tract of land lying in Virginia, called Paradise, now in possession of Francis Lee, left me by my honored father, Philip Lee, Esquire, to my son Thomas Sim Lee, and my daughter Sarah Brook Lee." Probably Francis never married; at any rate he had no male heirs as late as 1749, or the reversion to his estate could not have been devised."

Source: Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee, reprinted by Heritage Books, 2008

There is NO evidence that the South Carolina Lees and the Virginia Lees are both descendants of Col Richard Lee I.

The genealogy that the South Carolia Lees looked into has both families going back to the British Lee family, but not both families going back to Col Richard Lee I.

You have to find proof like wills, not a biography of General Stephen Dill Lee. That is not a primary source.

There's a book that is about the genealogy of Thomas Lee of Barbados and Charleston, the son of Francis of Barbados. I don't want to buy it, but if you buy it, I believe you will find that three brothers came to Barbados and one was Francis who was from England and not born in Virginia.

Hatte Anne Blejer I really do not understand where you are coming from - and there are lines from South Carolina from the Lees of Virginia - several.

And I didn't know that I was going to be micro managed like this. The information was already there on geni - removed when you question it. And I put it back when I found the evidence it did indeed belong.

I am sorry again if you are offended. ELJ's Lee of Virginia is a great resource - but again new information has been found over the past 150 years. The information that I have and share is a culmination of my best efforts and that of many other noted genealogist and historians. I spend almost a week looking into this before I went into the fix - and the same with the Youells - it's just like you are questioning my every move as if I have no say anymore. I don't get it.

Hatte Anne Blejer
and remember - it was also pointed out as the encyclopedia states:

Col. Richard Henry Lee II, Esq. (1647-1715) was a Colonel, planter, member of the Upper House and the King's Council.

Richard Henry II, was termed "Richard the Scholar". Richard was the son of Col. Richard Lee I, Esq., "the Immigrant" (1618-1664) and Anne Constable (ca. 1621-1666)[citation needed]

Richard was born at "Paradise", in Northumberland County, Virginia, the estate he inherited from his father when he died in 1664. This estate consisted of 1,350 acres (5.5 km2), and was later part of Gloucester County. He was educated at Oxford in England and may have studied law at the London “Inns”. He seemed destined for a career in the church, but he elected rather to return to the life of a Virginia gentleman, residing at “Paradise”. In 1673, when his older brother John died unmarried, Richard inherited the estate, “Machodoc”. Richard left “Paradise” to overseers and removed to his new estate.
Laetitia (Corbin) Lee

Richard married Laetitia Corbin (ca. 1657-1706), daughter of Richard’s neighbor and, Councillor, Hon. Henry Corbin, Sr. (1629-1676) and Alice (Eltonhead) Burnham (ca. 1627-1684)[citation needed]

Soon after his marriage, Richard was elected to the House of Burgesses. In 1676 Richard became a member of the King’s Council and he served in this capacity off and on until 1698. On one such absence in 1690 he had lost his seat because of his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to William III, King of England (“William of Orange”) (1650-1702). However, he was reinstated within a year. Richard was forced to retire from this position because of ill health. The Council was a body that served as the Governor’s privy council, the Upper House of the Colonial Legislature, and the Colonial Supreme Court. As early as 1680 he was Colonel of Horse in the counties of Westmoreland, Northumberland and Stafford. He was appointed by Sir Gov. Edmund Andros (1637-1714) to be “Naval Officer and Receiver of Virginia Dutys for the River Potomac”. Richard II, had one of the largest libraries in the Colony. He spent almost his whole life in study, and usually wrote his notes in Greek, Hebrew, or Latin. It was because of this that he was termed “the scholar”. Richard was a supporter of the Established Church.

Richard died March 12, 1714 at “Machodoc”, Westmoreland County. His will was probated on April 27, 1715. He was buried at the old “Burnt House Fields”, located near “Mount Pleasant”. Laetitia died on October 6, 1706 at “Machodoc”, and her tombstone can still be seen at “Mount Pleasant”.
Lee Family Coat of Arms

Richard established his residence at the “Machodoc” plantation, which was located on the Potomac River, near the town of Hague, in Westmoreland County. This was a large brick house, largely inclosed by a brick wall. The estate was inherited by his son Hon. Richard Lee III (1679-1718) who was at the time residing in London as a tobacco merchant with his family. Richard III leased his estate in Virginia to his brothers, Col. Thomas Lee, Hon. (1690-1750) and Capt. Henry Lee I (1691-1747), for “an annual rent of one peppercorn only, payable on Christmas Day”. After Richard’s death in 1718, the estate was sold by his wife Martha Silk (d.ca. 1734), who sold it to her brother-in-law, Col. Thomas Lee, Hon. (1690-1750). Thomas resided here until it burned down January 29, 1729, and removed to his newly built “Stratford Hall”. The fire was so serious that the field near the old mansion at “Machodoc” where the Lee burial ground became was forever named the old “Burnt House Fields”. The land was sold to Richard Lee III’s only son Col. George Lee (1714-1761), who had come over from England. A new plantation was built by George who called his new estate “Mount Pleasant”. The new house was built further back from the river and upon higher ground. This house also burned down.
Children

1. John Lee (21 May 1678-1679), who died in infancy.
2. Hon. Richard Lee III (1679-1718), who married Martha Silk (1680-ca. 1734).
3. Capt. Philip Lee, Sr., Hon., Esq. (1681-1744) of "Blenheim", who married 1) Sarah (Brooke) Dent (1683-1724), widow of her uncle, Col. William Dent, Sr., Gent. (1660-1705). Sarah was the daughter of Col. Thomas Brooke, Jr., Hon. (1660-1730) and Barbara Dent (1676-1754). 2)
4. Ann Lee (1683-1732), who married 1) Capt. Daniel McCarthy, Sr., Esq. (1679-1724), son of Dennis (MacCartee) McCarthy, Sr. (d. 1694) and Elizabeth Billington. 2) Hon. William Fitzhugh, Jr. (1679-1713) of "Eagle's Nest", King George Co., Virginia.
5. Francis Lee (1685-aft. 1754), who married Mary Barnell (1687-?)
6. Col. Thomas Lee, Hon. (1690-1750) of "Stratford Hall", Westmoreland Co., Virginia. Thomas married Hannah Harrison Ludwell (1701-1750), daughter of Col. Philip Ludwell II (1672-1726) of "Greenspring", and Hannah Harrison (1679-1731).
7. Capt. Henry Lee I (1691-1747) of "Lee Hall", Westmoreland Co., Virginia. Henry married Mary Bland (1704-1764), daughter of Hon. Richard Bland, Sr. (1665-1720) and his second wife, Elizabeth Randolph (d. 1719).
8. Arthur Lee (1693-1756), who married an unknown Sherrad

So there IS a reason why this is so.

A biography is not a primary source. I was open to the possibility that the two Francises were the same from the beginning but I have not seen proof of this. You have not presented proof. I'm not saying there is not proof, but that what you have presented is not proof.

But again, it's your family and your project. I'm advising you to use primary sources. Show me a primary source that Richard "The Scholar" Lee and Laetitia Lee had a son who moved to Barbados and died there, disinherited, while his nephews inherited his estates (per EJL's primary sources, wills).

Was that encyclopaedia Wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lee_II is the source of the above material you presented.

Last time around, you sensibly said that Wikipedia was not a reliable source :) Which it is not. Don't believe me, ask Erica or others.

well try these - there is a whole lot more:

http://www.stephendleeinstitute.com/about-sd-lee.html

Let’s explore the life of General Lee and the qualities of leadership which makes him such a compelling figure in Confederate history and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on September 22, 1833. The Charleston Lees were distantly related to another famous Lee line whose family tree included Light Horse Harry, Richard Henry and Robert Edward Lee of Virginia. His parents were Dr. Thomas Lee and Caroline Allison Lee. The family was considered a fairly prominent Charleston family.

http://www.historycentral.com/bio/CWcGENS/CSALeeSD.html

Stephen Dill Lee was born on September 22, 1833, in Charleston, South Carolina, and was distantly related to Robert E. Lee. After graduating from West Point in 1854, he served in the US Army for seven years, in artillery and staff positions. In February of 1861, he resigned and joined the Confederate army. Lee was a member of Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's staff at Fort Sumter, and performed well as an artillerist at the Second Battle of Bull Run and Antietam. In Mississippi, he became an artillery brigadier general, participating in the fighting at Chickasaw Bayou, Champion's Hill and the Siege of Vicksburg. Captured at Vicksburg, he was exchanged and promoted to major general. In May of 1864, he was appointed commander of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana. Promoted to lieutenant general to rank from June 23, 1864, he led troops in the Atlanta Campaign, the Battle of Ezra Church and the Franklin and Nashville Campaign. He was wounded while retreating from Nashville, and was unable to return to active duty until the last Carolinas Campaign. He was surrendered in April of 1865. In the years after the Civil War, Lee lived in Mississippi. There, he worked as a farmer, a member of the state legislature and first president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College (1878-97). One of the founders and active members of the United Confederate Veterans, Lee served as its president from 1904 to 1908. He also helped promote women's rights, wrote about history and made efforts to preserve the Vicksburg battlefield sites. Lee died in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on May 29, 1908.

# Dupuy, Trevor N., Curt Johnson, and David L. Bongard. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. ISBN 978-0-06-270015-5.
# Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
# Garrison, Webb. Strange Battles of the Civil War. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 2001. ISBN 1-58182-226-X.
# Johnson, Robert Underwood, and Clarence C. Buel, eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 vols. New York: Century Co., 1884-1888. OCLC 2048818.
# Wakelyn, Jon L. Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. ISBN 0-8371-6124-X.
# Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. ISBN 0-8071-0823-5.
# Weinert, Richard P., Jr. The Confederate Regular Army. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-942597-27-3.
# Winkler, H. Donald. Civil War Goats and Scapegoats. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, 2008. ISBN 1-58182-631-1.
# Wright, Marcus J., General Officers of the Confederate Army: Officers of the Executive Departments of the Confederate States, Members of the Confederate Congress by States. Mattituck, NY: J. M. Carroll & Co., 1983. ISBN 0-8488-0009-5. First published 1911 by Neale Publishing Co.
# nytimes.com New York Times newspaper obituary for Lee, May 29, 1908.
# genbarksdale.org General William Barksdale Camp 1220 site biography of Lee.
# aotw.org Antietam on the Web site biography of Lee.
# Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Lee, Stephen Dill". Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.

http://blog.southerngraves.net/2009/11/col-stephen-lee-relative-of-...

Aug 2nd, 1879

Here is what the Riverside Cemetery Walking Tour has to say about Col. Stephen Lee: "Colonel Stephen Lee, a distant relative of General Robert E. Lee, left Charleston to open a school in Asheville in 1846. His school, known as 'Lee's Select School for Boys' became famous across the south for its discipline and curriculum. He spent his entire life teaching at his school except for the years of the Civil War. During the war, Lee fought bravely for the Confederacy... At the end of his service, Lee formed a company called the 'Silver Grays.' These men were so well trained by Lee that on April 6, 1865, his small company of less than 300 men repulsed a Union army of 1,100 soldiers who came to Asheville with the intention of burning it down. After the war, Lee gave tracts of land in the Chunn's Creek section to his former slaves. Lee's land holdings before the Civil War included land from the top of Beaucatcher Mountain to the Swannanoa River."

Col. Lee is also mentioned in Western North Carolina: a history (1730-1913):

Col. Lee's school for boys was far famed and many of the best citizens of this country and South Carolina remembered with gratitude, not only the drilling in Latin and Greek received from this most successful educator, but also the lessons in high toned honor and manhood imparted by this knight "without fear and without reproach." Col. Lee came from South Carolina and opened his school first in a large brick house built by himself on Swannanoa, known as "The Lodge..." Col. Lee afterwards moved to Chunn's Cove, where he taught until, at the call of his country, he and his sons and his pupils enlisted in the cause which they believed to be right. He was a graduate of West Point and distantly related to Gen. R. E. Lee.

Col. Stephen Lee, son of Judge Thomas lee of Charleston, S.C., was born in Charleston, June 7, 1801, was educated at West Point and for some years after taught in the Charleston College. In September, 1825, he was married to his cousin, Caroline Lee, also of Charleston; they had fifteen children, nine boys and six girls. Some years after he was married he moved to Spartanburg, S.C., where he lived only a few years, moving with his family to Buncombe county, N.C. In Chunn's Cove he started his school for boys, which he kept up as long as he lived, except for two or three years in the sixties, a part of which time he was in command of the 16th N.C. Regiment, serving his country in West Virginia and the rest of the time drilling new recruits and preparing them for service. Besides serving himself, he sent eight boys into the Confederate army, four of whom gave their lives to the cause. At the close of the war he returned to his school duties and prepared many young men for their life work. He died in 1879, and is buried in the Asheville cemetery.

You misunderstand what you are reading. If it says that Gen Stephen Dill Lee is a distant relative of Robert E Lee because both families descended from a Lee who was Mayor of London, that is not the same as saying: "Francis Lee, the ancestor of General Stephen Dill Lee is the same Francis Lee that was the son of Robert "The Scholar" Lee and Laetitia Corbin".

Other than Wikipedia, show me ONE source, preferably a primary source or a scholarly source that says this.

and I pointed to you yes - wikipedia is not the most reliable - but it is not unreliable - more informational - genealogy evolves.

I still don't understand why your so up in arms at me. This lineage is very much my family too and only want to get it right - but that doesn't mean all this non-sence. Others are working quietly adding and correcting - they have no problems at all coming to me for information just as you have. I just don't relie on ELJ or out dated publishings. But do rely on good sources, documents and research.

Check with SAR and DAR for the recognized line and here's another GOOD resource: I did a lot of research before I did the fix as I stated.

http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/l/Lee,Stephen_D.html

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Collection Title: Stephen D. Lee Papers, 1784-1929

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Abstract Native of South Carolina and president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1880-1899. Papers of Lieut. Gen. Lee include miscellaneous collected letters, 1784-1860, of prominent American political figures, including John Quincy Adams, Judah B. Benjamin, Henry Clay, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe, J. L. Petigru, Franklin M. Pierce, and Martin Van Buren. Civil War materials include letters from Lee to his wife; letters from friends, many of whom were Confederate officials, including Patton Anderson, Jefferson Davis, and Nathan B. Forrest, Roy L. Gibson, William J. Hardee, J. B. Hood, O. O. Howard, and Leonidas Polk; and military correspondence from Braxton Bragg, George William Brent, Abraham Buford, Nathan B. Forrest, Joseph E. Johnston, J. B. Magruder, Alex. P. Stewart, and Richard Taylor. Postwar correspondence includes letters from Jefferson Davis, D. H. Hill, J. B. Hood, J. E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, R. D. Lilley, James Longstreet, W. N. Pendleton, R. B. Rhett, Jr., and Raphael Semmes. Other items include a diary recording the fall of Fort Sumpter and other events of 1861; personal and professional correspondence, 1909-1929, of Lee's son, Blewett Harrison Lee (b. 1867), lawyer of Chicago and New York; and genealogical data on the Blewett family of Mississippi, the Earle family of South Carolina, the de Graffenried family of Switzerland and North Carolina, the Hampton family of South Carolina, the Harris family of Virginia, the Harrison family of South Carolina and Mississippi, the Lee family of South Carolina and Mississippi, and the family of Samuel Taylor (d. 1798).
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Stephen Dill Lee was born to Dr. Thomas Lee and Caroline Allison Lee on 22 September 1833 in Charleston, S.C. He entered West Point at the age of 17 and graduated in 1854; he served in the U.S. Army in Texas, Florida, Kansas, and the Dakotas. In 1861, he resigned from the U.S. Army to enter service in the Confederate Army and rose in rank from captain to lieutenant-general. Lee was severely wounded in Nashville, Tenn., in 1864 and surrendered with Johnston in High Point, N.C., on 26 April 1865.

In February 1865, Lee married Regina Harrison, daughter of James Thomas Harrison and Regina Blewett, of Columbus, Miss. They settled in Mississippi after the war and Lee was active as a planter for several years. In 1878, Lee was elected to the Mississippi Senate. From 1880 to 1899, he served as the first president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. He resigned as college president to serve as member of the commission to organize Vicksburg Military Park. Lee was active in the Confederate veterans, wrote several articles on the Civil War, and held the post of Chief of the United Confederate Veterans until his death in Vicksburg on 28 May 1908. [from the Dictionary of American Biography]

Blewett Harrison Lee, born 1 March 1867 in Noxubee County, Miss., was the only child of Stephen and Regina Lee. He graduated from Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College and studied law at Harvard. He served as private secretary for Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray in 1890 and afterwards practiced law in Atlanta, Chicago, and New York. He was a professor of law at Northwestern University from 1893 to 1901 and the University of Chicago from 1902 to 1903. [from Who's Who in America, 1924-25 edition]
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http://books.google.com/books?id=bT2OkqGPcaUC&pg=PA3&dq=%22...

Read this page.

I have no dispute about whether General Stephen Dill Lee is a descendant of the Lees of London, just as General Robert E. Lee is.

I have been asking you to cite ONE reliable source that Francis Lee of Barbados is the son of Richard "The Scholar" Lee and Laetitia Corbin. I'm pointing out that you have made a leap without any sources for it.

I DO NOT carelessly ever approach without sources - and I have pointed out numerous sources - and I am not going to keep arguing the point - as I stated - check DAR and SAR - the thousands of publications on Stephen Dill Lee and his ancestry - then show me evidence that they are wrong - and then show me the connection to the London Lee's other than ELJ's or other conclusions based on assumptions. Because of Stephen Dill Lee this lineage was accepted.

I tried to tell you when you purchase ELJ's book that the material is now obsolete because of research that has been done in the past 150 years and now so much more obscure material is now available.

Please review the sources I have provided to you before you continue on your war path with me - this is very unnecessary. You can email or write letters to all of the institutions that I have sent to you and the hundreds more out there that accept Stephen Dill Lee's genealogy and tell them that they are wrong if you want.

http://www.historycentral.com/bio/CWcGENS/CSALeeSD.html

Stephen Dill Lee was born on September 22, 1833, in Charleston, South Carolina, and was distantly related to Robert E. Lee. After graduating from West Point in 1854, he served in the US Army for seven years, in artillery and staff positions. In February of 1861, he resigned and joined the Confederate army. Lee was a member of Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's staff at Fort Sumter, and performed well as an artillerist at the Second Battle of Bull Run and Antietam. In Mississippi, he became an artillery brigadier general, participating in the fighting at Chickasaw Bayou, Champion's Hill and the Siege of Vicksburg. Captured at Vicksburg, he was exchanged and promoted to major general. In May of 1864, he was appointed commander of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana. Promoted to lieutenant general to rank from June 23, 1864, he led troops in the Atlanta Campaign, the Battle of Ezra Church and the Franklin and Nashville Campaign. He was wounded while retreating from Nashville, and was unable to return to active duty until the last Carolinas Campaign. He was surrendered in April of 1865. In the years after the Civil War, Lee lived in Mississippi. There, he worked as a farmer, a member of the state legislature and first president of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College (1878-97). One of the founders and active members of the United Confederate Veterans, Lee served as its president from 1904 to 1908. He also helped promote women's rights, wrote about history and made efforts to preserve the Vicksburg battlefield sites. Lee died in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on May 29, 1908.

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Aug 2nd, 1879

Here is what the Riverside Cemetery Walking Tour has to say about Col. Stephen Lee: "Colonel Stephen Lee, a distant relative of General Robert E. Lee, left Charleston to open a school in Asheville in 1846. His school, known as 'Lee's Select School for Boys' became famous across the south for its discipline and curriculum. He spent his entire life teaching at his school except for the years of the Civil War. During the war, Lee fought bravely for the Confederacy... At the end of his service, Lee formed a company called the 'Silver Grays.' These men were so well trained by Lee that on April 6, 1865, his small company of less than 300 men repulsed a Union army of 1,100 soldiers who came to Asheville with the intention of burning it down. After the war, Lee gave tracts of land in the Chunn's Creek section to his former slaves. Lee's land holdings before the Civil War included land from the top of Beaucatcher Mountain to the Swannanoa River."

Col. Lee is also mentioned in Western North Carolina: a history (1730-1913):

Col. Lee's school for boys was far famed and many of the best citizens of this country and South Carolina remembered with gratitude, not only the drilling in Latin and Greek received from this most successful educator, but also the lessons in high toned honor and manhood imparted by this knight "without fear and without reproach." Col. Lee came from South Carolina and opened his school first in a large brick house built by himself on Swannanoa, known as "The Lodge..." Col. Lee afterwards moved to Chunn's Cove, where he taught until, at the call of his country, he and his sons and his pupils enlisted in the cause which they believed to be right. He was a graduate of West Point and distantly related to Gen. R. E. Lee.

Col. Stephen Lee, son of Judge Thomas lee of Charleston, S.C., was born in Charleston, June 7, 1801, was educated at West Point and for some years after taught in the Charleston College. In September, 1825, he was married to his cousin, Caroline Lee, also of Charleston; they had fifteen children, nine boys and six girls. Some years after he was married he moved to Spartanburg, S.C., where he lived only a few years, moving with his family to Buncombe county, N.C. In Chunn's Cove he started his school for boys, which he kept up as long as he lived, except for two or three years in the sixties, a part of which time he was in command of the 16th N.C. Regiment, serving his country in West Virginia and the rest of the time drilling new recruits and preparing them for service. Besides serving himself, he sent eight boys into the Confederate army, four of whom gave their lives to the cause. At the close of the war he returned to his school duties and prepared many young men for their life work. He died in 1879, and is buried in the Asheville cemetery.