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Anne Kinloch Lee, sister of Robert E. Lee, was born June 19, 1800 at Stratford Hall. She married William Louis Marshall who became a Judge. They had three children: Ann C. Marshall, Henry Lee Marshall and Louis Henry Marshall. They lived in Baltimore, Maryland. She died in Baltimore on Feb. 20, 1864.
Lucy Grymes Lee (1786 - 1860) - There is little known about her. She was the older sister of Robert E. Lee and died shortly before the Civil War. Henry Lee IV (1787 - 1837) - He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and the father of a daughter. He died at 49 due to influenza while in France.
Many, including leading Southern socialite Mary Chesnut, considered Smith, Robert E. Lee’s older brother, to be “the handsomest man in the Confederacy,” and given his illustrious record in the United States Navy prior to the war, great things were expected of him.
Robert E. Lee’s father’s financial mismanagement left Lee, his mother, and his siblings in circumstances that rendered them less wealthy than the plantation owners in his extended family. Why is Robert E. Lee significant?
While Lee was stationed at Fort Monroe, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis (1807–1873), great-granddaughter of Martha Washington by her first husband Daniel Parke Custis, and step-great-granddaughter of George Washington, the first president of the United States.
He and his second wife, Ann Hill Carter Lee, and their children departed the Lee ancestral home, where Robert was born, for a smaller rented house in Alexandria.
Robert and Mary have five more children: William "Rooney" Henry Fitzhugh Lee, Anne "Annie" Carter Lee, Eleanor "Agnes" Lee, Robert Edward Lee, Jr., and Mildred "Milly" Childe Lee....
The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.
Robert Edward Lee was born in 1807, into a prominent family at Stratford Hall in Virginia. Soon after Robert’s birth, his father’s poor financial management forced the family to leave Stratford Hall. Moving to Alexandria, Virginia, he met and would eventually marry his distant cousin, Mary Custis, heiress of Arlington House, in 1831.
The pair married in 1831; Lee and his wife had seven children, including three sons, George, William and Robert, who followed him into the military to fight for the Confederate States during...