HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, p. 1123. [Franklin Co.] CRAWFORD LEE. One of those native sons of whom Franklin has reason to be proud is Crawford Lee, county clerk and a very efficient and popular public official. The date of his birth is recorded as March 20, 1869, and he is the son of John H. and Mary Elizabeth (Walker) Lee, both of whom were born in Owen County and came of old and highly respected Kentucky families. The grandfather, Dr. Joseph Lee of Owen county, was a native of Virginia and a relative of General Robert E. Lee. This mother is a daughter of William Walker and is of English extraction, her grandfather, Bellfield Walker, having been born in England. Mr. Lee's father was a school teacher in early life, who afterward took up the agricultural vocation and followed it until the end of his life, which occurred at the age of sixty-nine years. His widow is still living. Crawford Lee had the good fortune, as it would seem by a study of the lives of most prominent men, to have been born and reared upon the farm. He worked on the farm in the summer and went to school in the winter and supplemented his common school education by a three years' course at Georgetown College. After leaving school Mr. Lee took up farming and engaged in it successfully until he entered upon the duties of county clerk, to which office he had been elected in November, 1908. He has always been a stanch Democrat in politics and is one of his party's most active workers. He has several fraternal relations, in which he takes great pleasure, these extending to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Eagles. He is also a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Lee was married in 1896 to Miss Anna B. Duvall and five children are growing up beneath their roof, namely, Arthur M., Estell H., Cleora Grace, Nevill Garrett and Kelly C. Lee Walker Duvall = Owen-KY Georgetown-Scott-KY VA England http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/franklin/lee.c.txt