From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, publ. 1912 - page 536 MRS. MARY ELIZABETH LEE, daughter of Ebenezer Chesebro and Anna GRISWOLD, was born in Albany county, New York, July 22, 1815; in 1837 she was married to Nelson (son of Elon) LEE. He was born at Guilford, Connecticut, March 1, 1814; his parents went to Monroe county, New York, two years later. In 1847 Mr. and Mrs. LEE came to Darien; in 1848 to Sugar Creek; in 1868 to a farm near Delavan. Mrs. LEE died at Sugar Creek, October 13, 1890. Mr. LEE died at Webster City, Iowa, April 9, 1898. It is told, with much color of truth, that she was hardly second to her father in his efforts to secure a state school for deaf children. Her son, Elon Nelson LEE (afterward county superintendent of schools), was a soldier of Company A. Tenth Wisconsin Infantry. He was sick at Elizabethtown, Kentucky, when she went there in February 1862. Her ministration was not restricted to him. She came home and pushed the work of the sanitary aid societies, and then went to find further service at the Louisville hospital. After the battle of Chaplin Hills she went to the hospitals at Danville. The next year she returned with credentials, letters, or other helpful papers, from Gov. Solomon, Lieutenant-Governor Spooner, and the Chicago Sanitary Aid Society, and became well known to thousands of soldiers at Louisville, Nashville, and Murfreesboro. Her son wrote of his parents: "I have said that if I were as truthful and honest as my father, and had the courage, grit and leadership of my mother, I would feel satisfied." Yet their son has never been reckoned here as a degenerate, but, on the whole, quite worthy of such parentage. Known ancestors of Elon N. LEE were Nelson4, Elon3, Eber2, Elon1, of Guilford.

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See Also: Ebenezer Chesebro