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Confederate Veteran February 1922
 
JARED JACKSON LEE, born at Newberry Courthouse, S.C., on Nov. 23, 1829, died at the home of his daughters in Birmingham, Ala., on Nov. 7, 1921.
   
Orphaned in early youth, he made his home with relatives in the western part of Dallas County, near Selma, Ala., where he grew to manhood and where he married MISS LOUISIANA MORGAN, daughter of GEORGE MORGAN, one of the prominent pioneer citizens of that farming district. After his return from the war he moved to Selma that his children might have better school advantages, but he still engaged in farming.
   
J.J. LEE was mustered into the Confederate service at Cahaba, Ala., as a member of Company A, Alabama Regiment, but in July of 1862, he became a member of Capt. Thomas H. Lewis Company, which later a part of Lewis's Battalion of Alabama Cavalry....
   
He became a Christian early in life and was a member of the Baptist church. He was a Mason and was proud of the organization.
   
Comrade Lee is buried by the side of his wife in Oak Hill Cemetery at Selma. Surviving him are two sons, five daughters and nine grandchildren.

 

 
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