William Octavio Lee (1917)

BARKER, BENNETT, COMER, LEE, STEWART

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/30/2011 at 09:46:57

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Tuesday, August 1, 1917
Page 4

WILLIAM O. LEE

William Octavo Lee was born in New York state, April 4, 1836 and died at the home of his son, Charles, at Pueblo, Colo., June 17, 1917. He came to Iowa in 1855 and was married July 23, 1860 to Angie Barker Comer.

He answered the call of his country and served as a soldier in the Civil War. After spending some time in Long Beach, Calif., in an effort to improve both his own and his wife's health, he came back to Colorado in April, 1916, where he resided until the time of his death.

He leaves to mourn his loss four children, Clarence of Lamar, Colo., Charles, of Pueblo, Colo., and Rosa and Vinnie of Montana. One daughter, Mary, died when quite young. Also three brothers: Elias of Colorado, James of Pueblo, Holland of New York and three sisters: Mrs. Capt. Barker of Palo Alto, Calif., Mrs. Didina Bennett of Fontanelle and Mrs. A. P. Stewart of Macksburg, besides a number of relatives and a host of friends who remember him as one of our early settlers.

The funeral was held at the Baptist church of which he had been a faithful member for many years, of Pueblo, and the remains placed to rest in the Roselawn cemetery by the side of his wife, who passed on about fifteen months before.

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