Esther Jenks Lee, Charles Norton Lee with twin grandsons, Roy and Ray Churches, Hannah Almira Lee Churches behind.

On Christmas Day, 1855, my great, great grandparents,  Charles Norton Lee and Esther Jenks, were married in the the home of her parent, Morris and Almira Botsford Jenks, in Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan.   Charles (13 March 1833 – 23 October 1905) was the son of Horatio and Hannah Munn Lee.  Esther (24 October 1832 – 10 February 1918) was born and lived her entire life in Southfield, Michigan.  She and Grandfather Lee had six children: Emmer (1856), Effie Clarissa (1859) [my great grandmother], Lewellyn (1862), Hannah Almira (1864), Marietta (1870), and Ora (1874).  Both Grandparents are buried in the Southfield Cemetery.