Jacob Crowser Lee (1823-1902)

LEE, COOPER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/11/2011 at 23:26:03

From Story County Watchman February 21, 1902

Cambridge Dispatch: Old Mr. Jacob Lee is very ill. He is suffering from gangrene in his foot caused from getting the foot frozen. He is eighty-six years old....

In the same paper:

Another old resident of Story county has been called to his reward in the person of Jacob Lee, of Union township, who departed for the unknown land of the future the first of this week at the age of 86 years. He has been under the weather for some time which his advanced age was hard to combat. He came to this county among the first of the settlers and has lived more than a generation on his farm at that point. He leaves a family of nine children to look to a meeting in the future.

From Story County Watchman February 28, 1902

Cambridge Dispatch: Jacob C. Lee ws born in Illinois, Sept. 15, 1816, where he grew to manhood, and was united in marriage to Lucy Ellen Cooper in Vermillion county, Ill., about the year 1844. To this union was born nine sons and three daughters-- three sons died in infancy. He removed with his family to Story county, Iowa, in the year 1855, settling in Ballard Grove, where they remained until the spring of 1875, when they moved upon the old home place two miles northwest of Cambridge, which has been his home since until the day of his death. His life companion preceeded him to her rest on Jan. 10, 1893. He was a pioneer in Story county, and was known to a host of people as "Uncle Jake."....