Talk:Henry Lee III

Children with Matilda Lee
1. Nathanael Greene Lee (1784), who died in infancy.

2. Philip Ludwell Lee (1785-1792), who died young.

3. Lucy Grymes Lee (1786-1864), who married Bernard Moore Carter (1784-1850), son of Hon. Charles Carter, Sr. (1737-1802) and second wife, Anne Butler Moore (1756). Bernard was a younger brother of Henry's second wife, Anne Hill Carter (1773-1829).

4. Maj. Henry Lee IV "Black Horse" (1787-1837), who married Anne Robinson McCarty (1798-1840), daughter of Daniel McCarty IV, Gent. (d. 1801) and Margaret Robinson (1780-1808), who married second, Richard Stuart, Sr., Esq. (1770-1835).

5. Greene Lee (1790), who died same day.

Children with Anne Hill Carter
6. Algernon Sydney Lee (1795-1796), who died young.

7. Charles Carter Lee (1798-1871), who married Lucy Penn Taylor, daughter of George Taylor and Catherine Randolph.

8. Anne Kinloch Lee (1800-1864), who married Hon. William Louis Marshall (1803-1869), son of Dr. Louis Marshall (1773-1866) and Agatha Smith (1782-1844).

9. Capt. Sydney Smith Lee (1802-1869), who married Anna Maria Mason (1811), daughter of Gen. John Mason, Hon. (1764-1824) and Anna Maria Murray.

10. Gen. Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870), who married Mary Anne Randolph Custis (1808-1873), daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, Esq. (1781-1857) (adopted son of Gen. George Washington) and Mary Lee Fitzhugh (1788-1853).

11. Catharine Mildred Lee (1811-1856), who married Edward Vernon Childe (1803).

Ancestry
Henry III, was the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II (1730-1787) of “Leesylvania” and, Lucy Grymes (1734-1792) the "Lowland Beauty".

Lucy was the daughter of Hon. Charles Grymes (1693-1743) and Frances Jennings.

Henry II, was the third son of Capt. Henry Lee I (1691-1747) of “Lee Hall”, Westmoreland County, and his wife, Mary Bland (1704-1764).

Mary was the daughter of Hon. Richard Bland, Sr. (1665-1720) and his second wife, Elizabeth Randolph (1685-1719).

Henry I, was the son of Col. Richard Lee II, Esq., “the scholar” (1647-1715) and Laetitia Corbin (ca. 1657-1706).

Laetitia was the daughter of Richard’s neighbor and, Councillor, Hon. Henry Corbin, Sr. (1629-1676) and Alice (Eltonhead) Burnham (ca. 1627-1684).

Richard II, was the son of Col. Richard Lee I, Esq., "the immigrant" (1618-1664) and Anne Constable (ca. 1621-1666).

Anne was the daughter of Thomas Constable and a ward of Sir John Thoroughgood. Please move back if citations provided. Toddstreat1 11:58, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

New article, restaurant named after Henry Lee III
Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 19:07, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Light Horse Tavern

Dubious
I placed this template in the Marriages and children section because the child was more than 16 months old when he died, plus!!! his name is given below that as "Algernon Sidney Lee". How be it that he is then said to be "unnamed in infancy"? &mdash;  Paine  Ellsworth  (  C LIMAX  )  23:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Not just dubious, but in blatant contradiction to the referenced entry giving his name and correct birth year (replacing a previous entry that read "Unnamed Infant (1796-1796)"). Since no one has stepped forward to defend the dubious "unnamed" claim, I'm deleting it entirely.  --RBBrittain (talk) 03:50, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

2 corrections under "Life and career"
(1) Mary Bland was Henry Lee III"s grandmother, not great grandmother as stated. She was the daughter of his great grandfather Richard Bland. (2) Henry Lee III's father Henry Lee II was the first cousin of Richard Henry Lee, not second cousin as stated. Henry Lee II's father Henry Lee I and Richard Henry Lee's father Thomas Lee were brothers, not first cousins. Both these corrections can be verified on the various Wikipedia pages for the relatives mentioned. --74.79.231.49 (talk) 17:16, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Ann or Anne?
In the article: "Lee married the wealthy Anne Hill Carter (1773–1829)" etc. Google search results for "Anne Hill Carter" and "Ann Hill Carter": Is it Anne or Ann? -80.133.108.135 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:05, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Both variants: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
 * Just Ann: 2.1, 2.2 (seems to be a transcript of a letter from "C. C. Lee" (Charles Carter Lee) to "Mrs Ann H. Lee" (Ann Hill Lee)), 2.3

Washington eulogy
Yesterday, wikipedia's DYK I think mentioned the anniversary of Lee's eulogy of Washington, it said at his funeral. Trouble is, Washington's funeral, according to many sources, including the Washington article, was on December 18. Second problem was the reflink for this entry, which was to a missing page, and that site's search engine didn't show where the page moved to. I sent an email to the maintaining entity, but haven't gotten a reply, presumably because many university libraries are closed this week. Most likely, IMHO, Lee delivered the eulogy at a subsequent memorial service. GW.edu seems to have previously had an online exhibit of memorials to the late president (and their namesake). I don't know if I'll be able to check this out sooner at my local library's local history room, which has the multi-multi- volume set of Washington papers.Jweaver28 (talk) 13:01, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Later in Life
In the section that talks about his death there's a sentence that makes no sense. Is it supposed to be stating he died while under the care of Nathanael Greene's daughter?

96.56.198.62 (talk) 20:34, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

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Ancestry tree
I reverted the unsourced addition of a family tree by 86.181.49.123.

It is very easy to construct an ancestry tree from unreliable sources published on the internet. However it only takes one mistake for large parts of the tree to be incorrect. For example if a grandmother is recorded as the first wife rather the second wife (the correct mother), then a quarter of the tree will be inaccurate, even if all the other entries for every single person are correct. For this reason trees need accurate sourcing from reliable sources.

86.181.49.123 what were your sources for creating this tree? -- PBS (talk) 08:38, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Lucy Grymes
Removed reference to Lucy Grymes as the "Lowland Beauty." No authoritative evidence of this. George Washington never identified the person he was talking about. Attribution was apparently made in a poem by Parson Weems. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonofkenny (talk • contribs) 18:11, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

Robert E. Lee in the Civil War
I found two references to Lighthorse Harry's rather more famous son, Robert as being commander of or general in chief of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Although Lee did receive that appointment, it was in 1865, literally just weeks before the surrender at Appomattox and he was unable to have any significant impact on Confederate operations. He continued primarily to be the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, which post he had held since 1862. I therefore changed both of them to describe him as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:4070:6240:190E:FB77:C37F:51C1 (talk) 21:59, 2 March 2019 (UTC)


 * It was IMO better before. If someone already knows who RE Lee was, it doesn't matter how he is described. For those that don't, they probably also don't know what the Army of Northern Virginia was or which side it was on. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 00:09, 3 March 2019 (UTC)