Lee Cemetery, Chicota, Lamar County, Texas

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Lee Cemetery, Chicota, Lamar County, Texas

LOCATION: Lee Cemetery in Chicota is a single grave located in the northwest quadrant of the county in Block 7 of the Lamar County Road Map produced by American Drafting and Services revised December 1993.

DIRECTIONS: The cemetery is located off Farm Market 197 between county roads 35780 and 35840

GPS COORDINATES: Not available

OLDEST KNOWN BURIAL: The only known grave is that of Molly A. Lee, who died 15 Apr 1876.

NUMBER OF GRAVES: There only one known graves in the cemetery. (July 2017)

SIGNS/MARKERS: There is not a sign for the cemetery.

LAST ENUMERATION: Unknown.

ADD'L INFORMATION: From the records of Elizabeth Booth: "Mollie Lee was about 12 or 14 years old, slightly retarded, no other known marker, across the road and over in a field from Friarson's store in Chicota. This was told to us by an old farm and dairy rancher at the store. He could be in error as to the age." Another note from Robert Chaney to Mrs. Booth supplied the full birth and death dates as born 9 Nov 1870 and died 15 Apr 1876.

From CHICOTA, TEXAS 1835-1985, by Roberta J. Woods and Ruth C. Renfro, Henry Publishing, Paris, 1986, p. 134: "Weldon Booth told of a small, lonely grave marker bearing the inscription [above] said to be located in a wooded area about 1 1/2 mile north of the lake [Pat Mayse Lake]. Robert Parsons says the child's father was Max Lee but this is only information obtained. Logic tells us that these two were part of the Lee Family of Rawhide."

PICTURE(S):
No Photograph of the Cemetery Is Available

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LOCATION:	Lee Cemetery in Chicota is a single grave located in the northwest quadrant of the county in Block 7 of the Lamar County Road Map produced by American Drafting and Services revised December 1993.
DIRECTIONS:	The cemetery is located off Farm Market 197 between county roads 35780 and 35840
GPS COORDINATES:	Not available
OLDEST KNOWN BURIAL:	The only known grave is that of Molly A. Lee, who died 15 Apr 1876.
NUMBER OF GRAVES:	There only one known graves in the cemetery. (July 2017)
SIGNS/MARKERS:	There is not a sign for the cemetery.
LAST ENUMERATION:	Unknown.
ADD'L INFORMATION:	From the records of Elizabeth Booth: "Mollie Lee was about 12 or 14 years old, slightly retarded, no other known marker, across the road and over in a field from Friarson's store in Chicota. This was told to us by an old farm and dairy rancher at the store. He could be in error as to the age." Another note from Robert Chaney to Mrs. Booth supplied the full birth and death dates as born 9 Nov 1870 and died 15 Apr 1876. From CHICOTA, TEXAS 1835-1985, by Roberta J. Woods and Ruth C. Renfro, Henry Publishing, Paris, 1986, p. 134: "Weldon Booth told of a small, lonely grave marker bearing the inscription [above] said to be located in a wooded area about 1 1/2 mile north of the lake [Pat Mayse Lake]. Robert Parsons says the child's father was Max Lee but this is only information obtained. Logic tells us that these two were part of the Lee Family of Rawhide."
PICTURE(S):	No Photograph of the Cemetery Is Available