Diana, the Lees are indeed a fascinating bunch. I'm not sure if I have posted this quotation before. We do have one Lee connection and that is with Marse Robert's libidinous uncle, "Squire" Richard Lee. This is recounted with some whimsy in the recent book "The Lees of Virginia" by Paul Nagel: "By now, the squire's personal life may have grown so notorious as to hinder his forays toward marriage--perhaps his habits had been a handicap all along. In 1773, when Richard was well past forty, a close friend sent a confidential report to the Squire's cousins: 'He looks fresh and hearty; and is, I'm afraid, as lewdly indulgent as ever, from the appearance of his waiting maids, Bab and Henny.' The sight of the Squire's black concubines brought a lascivious prediction: ' If ever he marries, you may depend on it (as I told him the other day), it will be with some mop-squeezer who can satiate his filthy amours in his own way." "It was not to be. At the close of the Revolution, the squire found a wife, making a match no family member might have foreseen. Beyond age sixty, Richard brought as a bride to Lee Hall a sixteen year old first cousin known for her beauty. Her name was Sally Poythress. She was a granddaughter and he a grandson of Richard Bland. Before the Squire died in 1795, just short of seventy, he had fathered four lawful children". I suppose if one can have only an indirect relation to General Lee, it least it's fun to have one that is spicy and "lascivious" :) Maynard