My Genealogy Hound

Edward Lee, grocer, was born in South Carolina in 1822, and is a son of Henry and Lucy (Furlow) Lee, natives of the same State. From South Carolina they moved to Cherokee Nation, or what is now Alabama, in 1836, and in 1859 the father came to Crawford County, Ark., where he died in 1862, his wife having died in 1838. The father was a successful farmer, and the father of ten children, of whom but our subject and one sister are living. The grandmother of Mr. Lee, Sarah Lee, was a native of Ireland. When Edward was about thirteen, he accompanied his parents to Cherokee Nation, and on November 26, 1858, landed upon the present site of Chester, Ark., having made the journey hither by wagon. In 1843 he married Miss Sabrey Rankin, who was born in Tennessee in 1821, and bore him seven children: Martha, now Mrs. Clark, of Newton County, Ark.; Emeline, now Mrs. Simms, of this county; Mary, now Mrs. McClendon, of this county; Frances, now Mrs. Osborn, of this county; Decatur, Lucinda and an infant, deceased. Mrs. Lee died in 1875. Her parents were Moses and Sallie (Tombs) Rankin, who in an early day moved from Tennessee to Alabama. In 1877 Mr. Lee was united in marriage to Mrs. Margaret Miller, daughter of William H. and Terracy Runolds, who came from Alabama to Arkansas. This union has been blessed with three children, only one of whom survives, Margaret Alice. Until this year, when he went into the grocery business, Mr. Lee has been exclusively engaged in farming. He is a self-made man, and owns 240 acres, twenty-five of which he has cleared, besides being the owner of a good store at Porter. In 1863 he enlisted in Company D, First Arkansas Infantry, United States Army, under Col. Searle, and until the close of the war operated in Missouri and Arkansas. Among the battles in which he fought are Saline River and Prairie de Hand. Mr. Lee is a member of the Masonic fraternity and I. O. O. F., and in politics is a Republican.