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Leonidus Lonnie Lee

2 Oct 1868 – 17 Jun 1945

Birth2 Oct 1868
Death17 Jun 1945
CemeteryBennett Cemetery
Apple Springs , Trinity County , Texas , USA
Added byPatsy Cate Creech Beatty on 02 Jan 2014
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Suggestion: Jane Cotie -------------------------------- Thank you so much for your hard work in creating these memorials. I have a suggestion concerning Leonidus Lee. His mother was not Almedia Swor Lee, but rather Sorinthia Tullis Lee. Her name appears on the 1870 census for Trinity County, Texas, along with husband, Needham Jefferson Lee, Leonidus Lee (a one-year-old son), and Needham's brother John Lee and John's wife Marie or Maria (I believe her maiden name was Hutson but I need to verify that). Two or three of the Hutson girls married Lee boys. Sorinthia Tullis appears on the 1850 census for Simpson County, MS, living in the home of William Thomas Hutson and Rebecca Hutson. I believe these would be her grandparents. They are 42 and 47 years old respectively, and Sorinthia was 2 years old at that time. William Thomas and Rebecca Hutson had a daughter, Melissa who married James Tullos (many different spellings of this name). Melissa died at the age of 22, so Sorinthia could easily have been Melissa's child, and Melissa might possibly have died in child birth. Anyway, for quite a long while I did not know that Needham Lee had a wife prior to Almedia, but I could see that Almedia would have been 15 years of age when Leonidus was born. I believe Ulyssis Clarence Lee, born 1877, would have been Needham's and Almedia's first child. Leonidus's mother shows to have been Babe Tuelous on his death certificate, (Babe obviously a nickname, and, as I said, many different spellings of the name Tullos). The Hutson's and Lee's traveled together from Mississippi to Trinity County, Texas, but I was not certain that Sorinthia had survived the trip until recently. I have not been able to locate her burial place. Lee's and Hutson's are at Moore and Bennett cemeteries in Trinity County, but as best I can tell, she is not among them. I will continue to search, and please keep my email address handy in case you might run across a lead. These things keep me up nights until I am able to solve the mystery. Needham Jefferson and Lenora Almedia Swor Lee are the parents of my grandfather, William Calvin Lee. They rest in Moore Cemetery in the community of Crecy which is between Apple Springs and Groveton, Trinity County, Texas. This is the ground where my dad ran and played and worked as a child. Now there is no one left to ask about these things. Again, thank you for your efforts. Jane Lee Cotie ----------------------- Their suggestion: Patricia Murray (#48108790) [email protected] If you would like to you can add Leonidue Lee children's names: Donie Etter Lee b: July 12, 1894 in Trinity County Nora Bell Lee b: October 15, 1895 in Trinity County, Texas d: December 04, 1977 Drusie Lucille Lee b: January 10, 1898 in Centralia, Trinity County, Texas d: April 08, 1963 Eula Lee b: June 28, 1900 in Trinity County, Texas d: December 27, 1931 Etoile Lee b: April 10, 1905 Myrtle Lee b: April 29, 1910 d: June 09, 1975 Velma Lee b: December 18, 1912 LJ Lee b: February 26, 1914 in Trinity County, Texas d: February 03, 1980 Mother of Leonidus Lee, Henry David Lee and Sarinthia Jane Lee is - Sarinthia J. (Tullos) Lee

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