. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. and Lcetitia, who mar-ried Colonel William Ball, of Lancaster. John married Airs. was member of theHouse of , when sixtyyears old, married six-teen-3ear-old S a 11 3-Poythress. He alsowas member of theHouse of Burgesses, ofthe conventions of1775-76, the House ofDelegates, and navalofficer of the port ofSouth Potomac. Henry,ancestor of GeneralRobert E. Lee, was theonly other son. By Henry Leesmarriage with IMarj-Bland, very distin-guished families areincluded in the ancestryof General Lee. MaryBland was
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. and Lcetitia, who mar-ried Colonel William Ball, of Lancaster. John married Airs. was member of theHouse of , when sixtyyears old, married six-teen-3ear-old S a 11 3-Poythress. He alsowas member of theHouse of Burgesses, ofthe conventions of1775-76, the House ofDelegates, and navalofficer of the port ofSouth Potomac. Henry,ancestor of GeneralRobert E. Lee, was theonly other son. By Henry Leesmarriage with IMarj-Bland, very distin-guished families areincluded in the ancestryof General Lee. MaryBland was the daughterof Richard Bland, ofJordans, and Elizabeth,daughter of WilliamRandolph, of TurkeyIsland, James River,the immigrant ancestorof the distinguishedfamily of that name. Richard Bland filled many offices of trust in the colony—wasburgess for forty years, member of conventions of 1775-76, of the7. PORTRAIT (P.^INTED BY GILBERT STU.\RT) OF MRS. NANCYLEE, OF RICHARD HENRY LEE AND [jIKS ]ANNE GASKINS [pINCKARD], AND WIFE OF JUDGE CHARLESLEE, ATTORNEY-GENERAL UNDER WASHINGTON ANDADAMS, BROTHHR OF LIGHT-HORSE HARRY LEE, ETC. EpitaphLee: Here ler tombstone, written by her brother Francis Lifrhtfootdeposited the remains o.* Ann Lee. daughter of Richardwife of Charles Lee. She died 9th of TS04, aged 33his stone is not erected in memory of her piety and virtue, forregistered in heaven : nor of the quahties by which she wasdistinguished or endeared, for of these, they who knew her3re lasting memorial in their sorrow for her death. But it is tole reader that neither youth nor beauty nor any excellence ofnind can rescue from the grave, for the entombed possessed 98 GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE, Continental Congress, and the committee in the convention of 1776that reported the famous Bill of Rights. His father was RichardBland, son of Theodorick Bland, of Westover, descended f
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