Greetings to All, Any help on the LEE family below would be very much appreciated. Three Lee Brothers: newspaper clipping found in the Hamilton County Texas Historical Book page 216 After walking thirty miles on crutches. Returning from the war between the states. The 1000 mile wagon trip from Pike County Alabama to Hamilton Texas must not have been too much of a challenge to Zachary Edward Lee. His two brothers Benjamin Moses Lee and Robert Elijah Lee and their families. The general unrest which covered the southland following the armistice in 1865 had its effect on the Lee brothers. Their father John Lee had died and the family had moved from their home in Covington County Alabama to Pike County Alabama. Zachary and Benjamin Moses had fought for the Confederacy in the 5th Alabama battalion infantry and Zachary had been wounded and taking prisoner at the battle of Chickamauga in Tennessee. He was held in the federal prison at Chicago Illinois and was presumed dead by his family. Robert did not serve since he was only 8 when 20 year old Zachary and 18 year old Benjamin enlisted in 1862. Six months after the close of the war Zachary returned home to Alabama walking the last 30 miles on crutches. Zachary married a childhood sweetheart Beady Robbins and their first two children Nancy and Elizabeth were born in Alabama. Benjamin Moses and his wife Margaret and daughter Mary. Late in 1870 loaded all of their belongings into wagons and began the 1000 mile trip to Hamilton Texas arriving in 1871. Within a few years Robert and his young bride known to us by her initials M. A. arrived in Hamilton . Their first child a daughter was born in 1879. The children born to Zachary and Beady Lee in Hamilton are Charlotte 1873 Temperance 1875 John 1877 Robert M. 1880 and Sue and Cleave. The children born to Benjamin and Margaret include Joseph 1871 John 1873 William 1875 and George 1878. All three brothers bought land and began farming in the community known as Shive and Robert Lee continued to farm and operated a vanity store in Hamilton. He died in 1941 at age 86 and is buried in Hamilton. He married a widow. Mrs. Alice McDaniel Harris and they had four children all born in Shive . Robert S. Lee born in 1893 and was a mail carrier for the post office in Hamilton until his death in 1972. His widow Mrs. R. S. Lee lives in Hamilton and is active in the Baptist Church. Jewel was born in 1894 followed by Cordia and Irving. In 1896 Zachary and Benjamin Moses moved their families to Brady Texas where many of the Lee descendants still live. Zachary died at 84 in 1925 . He and Beady who died in 1918 are buried in Cisco Eastland County Texas . They were active members in the Primitive Baptist Church. Benjamin died in 1922 and is buried at Brownwood Texas. ( Mrs. Clymer Wright Jr. Great Granddaughter of Zachary Lee )The above are the older brothers of William John Adam Julius Lee ( my grandfather) Charles R. Lee -- crlee@wbuffalo.com =========================