Source: "Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907" State of AL Dept of Archives and History, compiled by Thomas M. Owen, L.L, D. Director, Brown Publishing Co, Montgomery, AL, 1907 p. 87 Legislative Department, Barbour County ROBERT MONROE LEE, of Clio, Barbour county, was born at Louisville, in the same county Aug 19, 1846, and is the son of Needham and Emiline (Lewis) Lee and the grandson of Needham and Lydia (Pryor) Lee, and of Elvy Lewis. His Lee ancestors came from England to Va. in the 16th century. Needham Lee, father of Robert M. Lee, was a native of Augusta, Ga. and did service in the Indian War, 1836. Robert M. Lee was educated in the common schools of his native town; is a farmer, a Democrat, a member of the M.E. Church, South, and a Mason. He enlisted in the Confederate service March 10, 1862 in Co. "A", 45th Ala. Inf Reg.; was in the battle of Murfreesboro, and in all subsequent battles of the Western Army until July 22, 1864, at which time he was captured; was carried to Camp Chase, Ohio as a prisoner of war, and paroled March 2, 1865. He married January 19, 1881, Annie T., daughter of Dr. J.A. and Sarah Elizabeth (Huey) Reynolds of Louisville, Ala.