The Lee family

The Lees of Alexandria were the descendants of Henry Lee II of Leesylvania (Prince William County) and his wife Lucy Grymes. Their sons settled Alexandria in numbers in the 1780s and 1790s: Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III Person Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee III b. 1756 · d. 1818 Continental Army cavalry officer, ninth governor of Virginia, and father of . Sold the Oronoco Street property in 1784 to his cousin that became the . sold the Oronoco Street lot to his cousin Philip Richard Fendall Person Philip Richard Fendall b. 1734 · d. 1805 Builder of the (1785), secretary to George Washington's Potomac Company, and first president of the Bank of Alexandria. Twice a widower, his three marriages produced the dense … in 1784; Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General) Person Charles Lee (U.S. Attorney General) b. 1758 · d. 1815 United States Attorney General (1795-1801) under presidents Washington and Adams; brother of and . Practiced law in Alexandria; married Anne Lee, daughter of Declaration signer . practiced law and served as U.S. Attorney General; Edmund Jennings Lee Person Edmund Jennings Lee b. 1772 · d. 1843 Mayor of Alexandria (1815-1818), lawyer, and youngest brother of and . Lived from 1801 in his house at 428 North Washington Street, then bought at auction in 1828. served as the city’s elected mayor (1815-1818) and later bought the Lee-Fendall House at auction in 1828; Richard Bland Lee Person Richard Bland Lee b. 1761 · d. 1827 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia (1789-1795); brother of , , and . represented Virginia in the early Congresses.

The next generation centered on 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 … (1807-1870), raised in Alexandria by his mother Anne Hill Carter Lee Person Anne Hill Carter Lee b. 1773 · d. 1829 Mother of ; second wife of . Rented the Federal-era house at 607 Oronoco Street, Alexandria, raising her children there after her husband's financial collapse and imprisonment. , who married Mary Anna Custis Lee Person Mary Anna Custis Lee b. 1808 · d. 1873 Wife of , daughter of , and great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. Brought Arlington House and its Mount Vernon-derived collections into the Lee household. of Arlington in 1831 and produced three Confederate-officer sons: G. W. Custis Lee Person G. W. Custis Lee b. 1832 · d. 1913 Eldest son of and ; Confederate major general; later president of Washington and Lee University succeeding his father. , W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee Person W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee b. 1837 · d. 1891 Second son of and ; Confederate major general of cavalry; later U.S. Representative from Virginia. , and Robert E. Lee Jr. Person Robert E. Lee Jr. b. 1843 · d. 1914 Third son of and ; Confederate captain. Author of the 1904 memoir *Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee*, an essential primary source for Lee biographers. . The family’s fortunes are layered into the city’s antebellum elite economy and its Civil War rupture; their two surviving Federal-era houses on Oronoco Street remain the most-visited Lee sites outside Stratford Hall. ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia, Charles Lee (Attorney General) Website ^[2] Source 2 Wikipedia, Lee–Fendall House Website