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ROBERT EDWARD LEE. Giles county is proud to number among her native sons Robert Edward Lee, a prominent member of the Tennessee bar, practicing in Pulaski. His birth occurred on the 31st of March, 1891, a son of Robert Edward and Janie (Dunlap) Lee. The paternal grandparents were Edward Greenberry B. and Lucy (Farra) Lee, natives of Tennessee. Edward Greenberry B. Lee was a captain in the United States army during the war with Mexico, serving under General Scott. The maternal grandparents were Thomas F. and Sammie (Smith) Dunlap, likewise natives of this state. Robert Edward Lee, Sr., was born December 7, 1866, and died April 18, 1891. His widow was born in 1870 and her demise occurred in her twenty-fourth year.
In the acquirement of his early education Robert Edward Lee attended the public schools of Giles
county and was a student in the high school at Pulaski from 1904 to 1906. He then entered the
Abernathy Preparatory School at Pulaski, and he was a student there from 1906 to 1908.
Subsequently he entered Strayhom's School at Cornersville and upon the completion of his
literary course enrolled in the legal department of Cumberland University, which institution
conferred the LL. B. degree upon him in 1917. From 1910 to 1915 Mr. Lee worked in his spare
time, in that way securing funds to continue his education. In 1913 he accepted a position as
bookkeeper with the First National Bank at Port Arthur, Texas, and two years later he was
promoted to the position of teller, being active in the latter capacity one year.
In December, 1917, at Pulaski, Mr. Lee enlisted in the United States army for service in the World
war. He was sent to Camp Johnston, near Jacksonville, Florida, and in February was transferred
to Souther Field, near Americus, Georgia. He received his honorable discharge in April, 1919, and
returned to Pulaski. He has since practiced law here and is enjoying well-merited success. He has
won a prominent position at the Giles county bar and handles much important litigation before the
courts. He is in every sense of the word a self-made man, for the success he has achieved is the
result of his own labors.
At Lewisburg, on the 12th of November, 1919, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Lee to
Miss Della Jane Clayton, a daughter of D. B. and Cora Clayton, natives of this state. Mr. and Mrs. Lee have had two children: Jane Clayton, whose demise occurred in infancy; and Robert E., Jr., who was born in 1922. Mrs. Lee is a young woman of much culture and refinement and she is prominent in the clubs and social affairs of this community.
Politically Mr. Lee gives his allegiance to the democratic party, having firm belief in the principles of
that party as factors in good government. Fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, in which he is a
deacon. Mr. Lee takes a great and helpful interest in everything pertaining to his profession and
contributing to its advancement.
(Tennessee, The Volunteer State, 1769-1923, Vol. 3, John Trotwood Moore and Austin P. Foster, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1923, pp. 659-660)
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