Theodore S. Lee

The 1936 stone gives only Theodore S. Lee's birthplace and dates; his 1870 pension claim fills in his war. Raised in Vermont, he came to La Grange in 1834 after his first wife died and said he served in 1835 under William M. Eastland at Concepcion, the Grass Fight and the siege of Bexar. Kemp and Kilman list him with the camp guard opposite Harrisburg, though he said a sword cut his left hand at San Jacinto. He then bought beeves as a quartermaster until January 1837. In 1840 he married Esther Ann Sessions of Middlebury, Vermont.

What the plaque says

Theodore S. Lee Born in Rutland, Vermont 1799, died in December, 1884. His wife Hester Lee, born in Rutland, Vermont, died in 1888.

Where it stands

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