He was born to Daniel Marion & Lucy [Howard] Lee in Pickens County, Alabama not long after the fall of the South and a major loss of his family's estate.
Whatever else I say about this fellow is pure speculation, other than the family's movement and Census records clearly following the 10 children who survived to adulthood. The young man who was born around this time was named William H. Lee. This William was clearly listed through the 1910 Census. Then, in the 1920 Census, suddenly Richard Lee appears as if from no where (listing self as a lather-sheath and lathing was used to build most walls back then) and living with his brother, Frank Hood Lee. He would die in Frank's house in 1922 with Frank signing the death certificate.
If the case is solved, he isn't the first in this family to change his name; as a brother, Steven, changed to "Bugg Doss" Lee. So there was precedent? William had a wife, Cynthia who also disappears before 1920. This Richard said he was never married? The death certificate lists Richard's burial.
Whatever else I say about this fellow is pure speculation, other than the family's movement and Census records clearly following the 10 children who survived to adulthood. The young man who was born around this time was named William H. Lee. This William was clearly listed through the 1910 Census. Then, in the 1920 Census, suddenly Richard Lee appears as if from no where (listing self as a lather-sheath and lathing was used to build most walls back then) and living with his brother, Frank Hood Lee. He would die in Frank's house in 1922 with Frank signing the death certificate.
If the case is solved, he isn't the first in this family to change his name; as a brother, Steven, changed to "Bugg Doss" Lee. So there was precedent? William had a wife, Cynthia who also disappears before 1920. This Richard said he was never married? The death certificate lists Richard's burial.
He was born to Daniel Marion & Lucy [Howard] Lee in Pickens County, Alabama not long after the fall of the South and a major loss of his family's estate.
Whatever else I say about this fellow is pure speculation, other than the family's movement and Census records clearly following the 10 children who survived to adulthood. The young man who was born around this time was named William H. Lee. This William was clearly listed through the 1910 Census. Then, in the 1920 Census, suddenly Richard Lee appears as if from no where (listing self as a lather-sheath and lathing was used to build most walls back then) and living with his brother, Frank Hood Lee. He would die in Frank's house in 1922 with Frank signing the death certificate.
If the case is solved, he isn't the first in this family to change his name; as a brother, Steven, changed to "Bugg Doss" Lee. So there was precedent? William had a wife, Cynthia who also disappears before 1920. This Richard said he was never married? The death certificate lists Richard's burial.
Whatever else I say about this fellow is pure speculation, other than the family's movement and Census records clearly following the 10 children who survived to adulthood. The young man who was born around this time was named William H. Lee. This William was clearly listed through the 1910 Census. Then, in the 1920 Census, suddenly Richard Lee appears as if from no where (listing self as a lather-sheath and lathing was used to build most walls back then) and living with his brother, Frank Hood Lee. He would die in Frank's house in 1922 with Frank signing the death certificate.
If the case is solved, he isn't the first in this family to change his name; as a brother, Steven, changed to "Bugg Doss" Lee. So there was precedent? William had a wife, Cynthia who also disappears before 1920. This Richard said he was never married? The death certificate lists Richard's burial.
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