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Washington Lee

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• • Grandfather of Emily Post — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • James Stewart Lee   
  • Mother:
  • Martha Campbell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 May 1821 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hanover Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Mar 1883 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Emily Laura Thomas
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Jun 1846 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, Pennsylvania 
  • Child:

  Mary Josephine Lee (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • aka Washington Lee Jr.

    The suffix Jr. was added to his name as he was named for a paternal uncle.

• Sources for Washington Lee

  • ¹ Find A Grave , (accessed 06/08/2020).
  • ² The Mayflower Descendant , Spring 2012, Vol. 61, No. 1, p. 86, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ³ Claridge, Laura , Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners , New York: Random House Trade Paperback Edition (2009) , 11-15, 35-36.
  • ⁴ Harvey, Oscar Jewell , The Harvey Book: Giving the Genealogies of Certain Branches of the American Families of Harve y, Nesbitt, Dixon and . . . , Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: E.B. Yordy and Co., Printers (1899) , 560, Heritage Quest (Digital Library).
  • ⁵ Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, ed. , Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 , New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1906) , 542, Google Books (Digital Library).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd , The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Fa milies on the Mayflower , Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020) , 577.