Jackson County, ALArchives Cemeteries.....Lee Cemetery - Complete Survey

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Jane Nichols  July 1999

Transcribed by Jane & Randy Nichols, June 25, 1999

July 1999

I really don't know the name of this cemetery.  It is not on the county
map.  It is off of County Road 10 in Paint Rock Valley, up on the side
of a hill, behind a pasture.  It has several graves but only one is
readable.


Mary Lee   born Oct 16, 1795   died Feb 21, 1842    wife of Jos Lee

Per Terry D. Lee, LeeRoses@aol.com

The property where the cemetery is located was first owned by my ggg 
grandfather William Lee (b. 1780/90 - d. after 1840 census). I first find 
him located there on the 1822 Decatur Co. land survey. He purchased the 
land from the federal government in 1831. He is my brick wall, so I know very 
little. His wife, also named Mary (b. ca. 1790 - d. after 1850 census), 
occupied the property in the 1850 census. I assume they are both buried in 
this cemetery.

I have never been able to find out anything about the Jos and Mary Lee 
referred to on the stone marker. Mary's is the only "box" type grave and 
the only grave with a written stone marker. The other 30 or more graves 
have small stones taken from the side of the mountain where the cemetery 
lies to mark their location.

What little evidence I have uncovered indicates that an extended group 
of three or four Lee brothers, together with their families and several 
of their neighbors (for certain including the Pleasant W. Hickman family), 
migrated here from the Carolinas (prob. Barnwell Co., SC) ca. 1820. They 
were the first occupants of this and nearby property. It thus seems reasonable 
to me that this cemetery holds the remains of these pioneer families of 
Jackson county.



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