I was busy working on the Hotchkiss, Lee, Munn, Tilden project today, copying the text information into my database and proofreading the earlier information that I had recorded. I got to a part of the text where the author listed the children of Reuben Lee and Lois Hall. At the end of the list, he added “(I think the above list more authentic coming by way of Aunt Mary Eggleston Lee). So I had to figure out who Aunt Mary was and what was the connection to the author. I found her death certificate and she was the daughter of Sarah Lee and Joseph Engliston. Mary would have been the author’s first cousin, twice removed, but probably called Aunt.

THEN, there was a signature after the comment – F Lee! Well, I had pegged Henry Waters Lee as the probable author of the manuscript and it now looks to be his brother Frank L. Lee (1860-1936). What a surprise and what a great discovery.