Anne Hill Carter Lee

Anne Hill Carter, born to Charles Carter at Shirley Plantation on the James River, married Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee III in 1793 as his second wife. After his descent into debt and three-year imprisonment for unpaid obligations, she relocated her children to Alexandria; she rented the Federal-era house at 607 Oronoco Street Place 607 Oronoco Street Federal-era house at 607 Oronoco Street rented by Anne Carter Lee from about 1812; principal childhood residence of her son Robert E. Lee before his 1825 appointment to West Point. … from about 1812 and raised her son Robert E. Lee Person Robert E. Lee b. 1807 · d. 1870 United States Army officer who spent much of his childhood in Alexandria at the house on Oronoco Street before his West Point appointment, and who later commanded Confederate … there until his 1825 appointment to West Point. She died in 1829, never reunited with her exiled husband.

NOTE: this entity replaces the earlier seed slug mary-lee, which used the wrong given name. The slug is preserved for cross-references; the canonical name is Anne Hill Carter Lee.