William Deadrick Lee married Sept. 21 1841 in Grainger County, Tennessee to Elizabeth Desdemona "Desty" Turley. They were living in Rutledge, Tennessee in 1870. Elizabeth died at age 67 and William died shortly afterwards at age 66 years.
William Deadrick Lee is a son of Thomas Lee, Jr. & Mary Polly (Bacon) Lee.
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1850 US Census; Grainger County Tennessee:
# 78 - 390:
HH:
Daniel Turley, 35 TN [Son]
Desty Turley, 62 VA [Mother].................... Wm Turley, 23 TN
Nancy Turley, 20 TN
Elisha Pratt, 17 TH

[Living next door to Daniel Turley & Mother, Desty Turley]
1850 US Census; Grainger County Tennessee:
# 79 - 391
HH:
Wm D. Lea, 27 TN
Elizabeth D. Lea, 28 TN
Martha H. Lea, 7 TN
Mary D. Lea, 5 TN
Thos B. Lea, 2 TN
James F. Lea, 1 TN

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This was his complete nuclear childhood family as discovered on a transcribed second page of dad's 13-July-1828 Hawkins County, Tennessee will:

Thomas *J Lee (1761-1828)
&
Mary "Polly" (Bacon) Lee (1783-1852)
m. abt 1800, both were born in & died in Hawkins County, Tennessee, where they had their 7 children btwn 1801 & 1827, the year after they wed to the year before he was dead (he was 22yrs her senior):

(1) **Samuel James Lee (1801-1828)
m. 1825 Margaret Henderson
{grave unfound}

(2) Susan "Sally" (Lee) Chesnutt (1802-1856)
m. Samuel Chesnutt
MEMORIAL ID 72974439

(3) Thomas Jefferson Lee (1809-1873)
1m. 1838 Eliza J G Rankin
2m. 1863 Marjorie Virginia Wells
MEMORIAL ID 38314910

(4) Elizabeth (Lee) Horner (1815-1850)
m. abt 1832 Hamilton Robert "Bob" Horner
{grave unfound}

(5) Pleasant Nicholas Lee (1820-1887)
m. 1842 Susan Lee (diff Lee)
MEMORIAL ID 35781914

(6) William Deadrick Lee (1823-1889)
m. 1841 Elizabeth Desdemona "Desty" Turley
MEMORIAL ID 39207582

(7) Mary "Polly" Ann (Lee) Farris
(1827-1882)
m. abt 1847 "A.W." Augustine W Farris
MEMORIAL ID 72974467

*Dad Thomas' middle initial 'J' could've been for Jefferson, like his son Thomas Jefferson, or for James like gave firstborn for middle. No original source document confirms.

**Firstborn was called Samuel in g'pa Michael Bacon's 1804 will, then called by middle name James in dad Thomas Lee's 1828. One son.

Until the graves of their parents, Thomas Lee & Mary "Polly" (Bacon) Lee, are identified these seven children remain unlinked on this site. Let this note serve as reference for when dad & mom's final resting places are found, likely in Hawkins County, Tennessee, where they perished. Also ready to be linked up are mom's parents, who are missing their eldest of three daughters (Mary "Polly" (Bacon) Lee) on their pages for now:
Michael Bacon (1757-1804)
MEMORIAL ID 76937155
&
Isabella (Bourland) Bacon (1761-1824)
MEMORIAL ID 42627099

- by Sis (47272811)