LEE, Joseph - Putnam

Joseph Lee, farmer, section 1, Monroe Township, was born in Barren County, Kentucky, February, 4 1823. His father, Henry Lee, now deceased, was a native of Virginia. He was reared on a farm and educated in the subscription schools which were taught in the primitive log cabin of pioneer times. These school-houses had split logs for seats boards on wooden pins for desks, puncheon floors, clapboard roofs, mud-and-stick chimneys, and huge fireplaces in one end of the room. One log was left out for light, and sometimes greased paper was used in the aperture just made. Mr. Lee came to this county in the fall of 1845, settling in Monroe Township, where he has since resided. The home farm consists of 160 acres of land, which is devoted to farming and stock-raising. He was married May 2, 1847, to Mrs. Catherine Cassity, daughter of David Badger, now deceased. She was born in Montogomery County, Kentucky, and had been married twice. By her first marriage was one child, Uriah W. Chambers, and to the second marriage, also one child--Oliver A. Cassity. Mr. and Mrs. Lee have spent ten or twelve winters in Lawrence County, Middle Tennessee.  They are members of the Christian church.