 Abt 1820 - Abt 1870 (~ 50 years)
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| Name |
Amanda Lee [1, 2, 3, 4] |
| Born |
Abt 1820 |
Missouri  [5] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Abt 1870 |
California [4, 6] |
| Person ID |
I1035 |
Carley Bisher's Ancestry |
| Last Modified |
20 May 2018 |
| Father |
Joel Lee, b. 10 Aug 1778, Virginia , d. 4 Jun 1863, Finney’s Creek, Saline, Missouri (Age 84 years) |
| Mother |
Ora Newman, b. Abt 1795, Virginia, USA , d. 1844, Missouri, USA (Age ~ 49 years) |
| Married |
16 Nov 1811 |
Lower Patrick Co., Virginia [7, 8, 9, 10, 11] |
| Family ID |
F5449 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
George Washington Lee, b. 11 Nov 1810, Patrick Co., Virginia , d. 6 Jan 1888, Colusa, California? (Age 77 years) |
| Married |
17 Aug 1836 |
Saline, MO [12, 13] |
| Children |
| + | 1. John Harvey Lee, b. 7 Aug 1841, Missouri , d. 20 Nov 1922, Los Angeles County Hospital, Los Angeles, California (County Hosp.) (Age 81 years) |
| + | 2. Arna Francis Lee, b. Abt 1843, Missouri |
| | 3. William Jasper Lee, b. 15 Sep 1846, Oregon Territory or possibly while the family was traveling west on the Oregon Trail , d. 19 May 1927, Los Angeles, CA (Age 80 years) |
| | 4. Mary Lee, b. Abt 1846, Oregon Territory , d. Bef 1860 (Age ~ 13 years) |
| + | 5. Joseph Christopher Lee, b. 1 Mar 1849, Oregon Territory , d. 17 Apr 1910, Los Angeles, California (Bellvue Hosp.) (Age 61 years) |
| | 6. James Lee, b. Abt 1853, Oregon Territory |
| | 7. Charles Lee, b. Abt 1853, Oregon Territory , d. Jun 1859, Yolo County, California (Age ~ 6 years) |
| + | 8. Ellen Lee, b. 13 Oct 1860, Yolo Co., California , d. 1 Mar 1950, Colusa, California (Age 89 years) |
| + | 9. Ada Lee, b. 17 Nov 1864, Sacramento, California , d. 12 Sep 1940, Stockton, California (Age 75 years) |
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| Last Modified |
10 Nov 2022 |
| Family ID |
F316 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Amanda’s parentage is not yet proven but we have a conjecture that she is a daughter of Joel and Ora Lee and a 1st cousin to her husband.
Based upon a fairly thorough catalog of all Lees living in Howard, Cooper, Saline, and Petis counties in Missouri between 1830 and 1850 constructed from censuses, original records, and some information from other researchers, it appears that there are two main Lee families in these counties prior to 1850. The two groups are not related (Y-DNA of their descendents doesn’t match). One is a group of Lees who moved to Howard Co. around 1818/19 from Madison Co., Kentucky, the parents being Richard Lee and Elizabeth. This family was quite prolific - there are lots of them.
The other, smaller, group is that of the three brothers who came directly from Virginia in 1819/20: John Lee, Joel (Joseph) Lee, and William Lee. Their father was William Lee Sr. (1742-1820). We have a very close Y-DNA match for a male descendent of George Washington Lee with relatives of William Lee Sr. in Virginia. By process of elimination, we at first thought that we could argue strongly that Amanda must have come from the Lees of Madison County, Kentucky.
Since GW & Amanda’s first-born son John Harvey Lee carried the Harvey surname, we at first thought Amanda must have been a daughter of either Noah Green Lee or Richard Washington Lee, whose wives were Harveys. Richard’s will does not mention Amanda and there is no room in the birth order of his children for her. A biography of one of Noah’s sons indicates that he had nine children. Discounting those that died young, this would not allow for an extra child (Amanda). Also, the 1830 census does not include any extra females in Amanda’s age range.
One of the co-administrators appointed for George Washington Lee’s parents’ estate in 1836 was a John Harvey. He could have been married to one of GW’s sisters, or he could be a family friend. It is possible GW’s eldest son was named after him rather than Amanda’s mother.
We have found several atDNA matches that descend from both the Cassady’s (who are connected with both John’s wife Sally Owen and William Lee Jr.’s wife Polly Cassady) and the Newmans (connected with Joel’s wife Ora Newman) indicating that either or both of Washington or Amanda Lee descend from these families. There is no room in John’s birth order or in the 1830 census for John’s widow’s household for either Wash or Amanda. There is one unaccounted for male slot in the 1830 census for William Lee Jr. and more than one male and female slot with Joel Lee. For these reasons, we think it likely that Wash was a son of William and Polly (Cassady) Lee (95% certain) and Amanda was a daughter of Joel and Ora (Newman) Lee (75% certain - 25% she is from some as-yet-unknown Lee family not in this area of Missouri). We are now searching for a matrilineal descendant of Ora Newman’s ancestors to test for full-sequence mtDNA to compare with a test we did on a matrilineal descendant of Amanda Lee to rule that possibility in or out.
RESEARCH: Amanda’s daughter, Ada Lee Myers, told her children that her mother died when she was six years old (1870).
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