Silas Lee and Rebecca Fell

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Husband Silas Lee ^{1 2}

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           Born: 23 Sep 1788 - Bucks Co, PA 2
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           Died: 18 Aug 1871 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: William Lee (      -      ) 2
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   Other Spouse: Jane Holmes (1807-1876) 1 2 - 1834 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 2

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Wife Rebecca Fell ²

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           Died: 1819 2
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Children

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1 F Esther F. Lee ²

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         Spouse: Rev. John Eakin (      -      ) 2

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2 F Adaline Lee ²

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         Spouse: John McKarihan (      -      ) 2

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3 M Joseph Lee ²

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General Notes: Husband - Silas Lee

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He was a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where his ancestors had lived since before the Revolutionary war. The family is related to the Lees of Virginia.
He removed from Bucks County to Connersville, Indiana, in 1821, where he read law with Oliver H. Smith, subsequently a United States senator from that state, was there admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession at Perrysburg, Ohio. After practicing some ten years he returned to his native county and gave up the legal profession, afterward engaging in agricultural pursuits. Soon after his marriage he removed to Sharon, Pennsylvania, thence to Iowa in 1857, and afterward to Virginia, where he remained until July, 1860, when, seeing the symptoms of the coming civil war, he brought his family to Franklin, Pennsylvania. He and his wife were adherents of the Methodist Episcopal church, and died in that faith. Politically he was first a Whig, and after the dissolution of that party he became a Republican.

Early in his life he followed farming, as had the family for several generations. Later he became a bookkeeper, and subsequently studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Crawfordsville, Indiana, about 1823, and practiced law at Perrysburg, Ohio, five years or more, then moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and from there to Pittsburgh, about 1832. In about 1842 he was engaged in the iron business at Pittsburgh, and removed to Mercer County, where he engaged in farming and the coal business. During the year 1857 he resided with his family in Davis County, Iowa, near Bloomfield. From Iowa he moved to Virginia, and from there in 1860 to Franklin, Pennsylvania, where he died. In politics he was a Whig, and later of the Republican party. He held such local positions as school director, but did not aspire to public positions. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and held offices in that body.

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 806.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 305.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 809.