Hello: I'm interested in contacting anyone doing research on the families which connect to Martin Batte Lee (d 28 March 1884) and Lavincy Allbritton Lee (both buried in the Taylor Cemetery, near Farmerville.) They arrived in Union Parish ca 1846, in a large family company from Dallas and Wilcox Counties, Alabama. . They had 11 daughters and 1 son. The son, John Martin Lee, Sr., married Mary Jane Taylor Windes, widow of Oliver H P Windes. The daughters married into the Hicks, Auld, Brantley, Williams, Slosson, Mathews, Gulley, Ward, Green, Hayes and Parrott families. They were also closely allied to the McGough and Steele families. My g-grandmother (Nancy Harriet Lee Parrott, wife of William Parrott) was the only daughter who "moved on" (to Sabine Parish) after the Lees settled in Union. I'm glad to share information. Many years ago I inherited a large group of letters/papers/daguerrotypes, saved by Nancy Lee Parrott, and kept in a flat trunk under the bed (finally parcelled out in 1927) describing early Union Parish and the many family connections, the earliest of which dates from the late 1840s. Moast of the 50-odd letters were written in the late 1860s and 1870s. Old Martin Batte Lee was remembered as a gentleman of "sterling character." Following the death of Lavincy Allbritton Lee in 1863, he married a widow, Mrs Anna Nyegaard. It's an interesting family. Of Martin B Lee's family, it was said that "the son (John Martin Lee Sr) had eleven sisters, and each of the sisters had a brother." I will appreciate any contacts. Thanks very much. Robert E Parrott, Knoxville TN [email protected] [I'm interested in attending the 'reunion' if it occurs at a time when I can be there. REP]