Samuel Holland Lee & Viola Moss Biggs
Samuel Holland Lee b. 3 Jan 1869 Logan Co., AR d. 26 May 1929 Logan Co., AR Married: 8 Jan 1891 Logan Co., AR buried: Paint Rock Cemetery, Logan Co., AR Father: Britton Lee Mother: Martha Collier
wife: Viola "Olie" Moss Biggs b. 21 Aug 1869 Chattanooga, TN d. 19 May 1948 Logan Co., AR buried: Paint Rock Cemetery, Logan Co., AR
CHILDREN
Steven T. Collier Lee b. 8 Nov 1891 Logan Co., AR d. 28 Sep 1977 buried: Paint Rock Cemetery Logan Co., AR
wife: Verda Lee b. 7 Aug 1901 d. 13 Dec 1948 Buried: Paint Rock Cemetery, Logan Co., AR
Stella Lee b. 17 Jan 1893 Logan Co., AR d. 3 Jun 1986 Buried: Paint Rock Cemetery, Logan Co., AR. Married: 2 Nov 1913, Logan Co., AR.
husband: Bee C. Wright b. 28 Apr 1890 d. 21 Nov 1934 Buried: Paint Rock Cemetery, Logan Co., AR
John Selkirk Lee b. 1894 Logan Co., AR d. 25 Dec 1925 Married: 10 Jun 1916 Logan Co., AR. Driggs Community
wife: Selma Elms b. 10 May 1898 d. Dec 1979 Buried: Oakland, Alameda Co., CA
Lillian M. Lee b. 5 Feb 1897 Logan Co., AR d. 8 Jul 1994 Buried: Garden of Memories Cemetery, Franklin Co., AR. 1st marriage: 27 Nov 1913, Logan Co., AR.
1st husband: Thomas J. Biggs b. 24 Jun 1897 d. Jan 1984 Batesville, Independence Co., AR
2nd husband: Arthur Doshier b. 2 Nov 1912 d. 1 May 1973
Zelmer Darrell Lee b. 1 May 1899 Logan Co., AR d. 14 Nov 1983 Buried: Garden of Memories Cemetery, Franklin Co., AR
wife: Sarah A. Cornish b. 23 Sep 1911 d. 29 May 1977 Buried: Garden of Memories Cemetery, Franklin Co., AR Father: B. H. Cornish Mother: X
Bessie Lee b. 12 Oct 1900 Logan Co., AR d. 22 Jan 1901 buried: Paint Rock Cemetery, Logan Co., AR
Ophal B. Lee b. 5 May 1904 Logan Co., AR d. 21 Oct 1977 Houston, Harris Co., TX
wife: Jewell O. Lee b. 29 Dec 1907 d. 9 Jan 1988 Houston, Harris Co., TX
Zena Lee b. 27 Mar 1907 Logan Co., AR d. 23 Jun 1977 Scranton, Logan Co., AR
husband: Ray Bryson
Infant daughter Lee born and died 19 Apr 1909 buried: Paint Rock Cemetery, Logan Co., AR
Rosa Marie Lee b. 30 Sep 1911 d. No date Buried: Garden of Memories Cemetery, Franklin Co., AR
Walter Vernon Ayres b. 23 Feb 1909 d. Nov 1983 Ft. Smith, Sebastian Co., AR
Juanita Lee b. 15 Apr 1915 d. 9 Aug 1992 Barling, Sebastian Co., AR
husband: Guy Williams b. 1 Sep 1909 d. Dec 1980 Barling, Sebastian Co., AR
Lieuvenia Lee b. 30 Oct 1894 d. 4 Nov 1894 Buried: Moore Cemetery, Logan Co., AR
Infant Lee
Notations on Samuel Holland Lee's family
Samuel lived in Clark Township in the old Creole community, then later, moved to the Paint Rock Community. A daughter of S.H. Lee, Lillian Lee, remembers her grandmother, Martha Collier Lee, had a brother she would visit in Green Forest, Arkansas by travelling via train.
Lillie Lee Memories
Her father had to swim in Orange Creek in Yell County to loosen the yoke from the oxen which pulled the family's wagon. The water was too deep and the heavy yoke was threatening to down the team.
Lillie Lee had her first date when she was 16 years old. Osborne Davis came to "spark" her on Sunday afternoons with her father present and before sundown. When her father decided enough time had elapsed for the "sparking" he would announce, "It's time to get the work done!" Osborne would return within 2 weeks for further "sparking". Lillie told of her duty, "I had to milk the cows, feed the chickens, gather the eggs and "got" in the wood. She and her sisters remember picking cotton, cuttin' sprouts." Lillie had spoke of when she and her brother had cut a rick of wood and had made a dollar or two when young.
Lillie had naturally curly hair and a favorite recess activity for the older girls was to arrange Lillie's hair in long curls. Lillie reported she repeated the 8th grade three times, she allegedly was a "good" girl and never was whipped but admits that, "Aw! I might have had to sit on the stage a few times, like for doing something to the teacher and running away from school." She remembered, "once on April Fool's Day she and other students barricaded the door with benches so the teacher couldn't get into the building."
The former Lee farm joined Paint Rock Cemetary. The old log house fell several years ago (1970's) and A.B. Coffman was one of its last occupants. The Paint Rock Schoolhouse once stood about a half mile west of the cemetary. It was moved closer so that it would stand alongside the paved highway and near the graveyard. When it served as a schoolhouse, Lillie Lee stumped her toes on the rocks as she covered the distance from home barefooted. Two of her teachers at the one room school were Arthur Lee and Harlan Shelton.
The Lee's were a musical family that had an organ and other instuments that formed a quartet with Stella, Selkirk, Steve, and Lillie.
Some of the neighboring families surrounding the Lee farm were the Storts, Moss family, Keck's, Ezell's, Krigbaum's, Shirley's, Bigg's and the Wright family.
The girls in the Lee family were trained early to sit up with the dead at night. A wet cloth was laid over the deceased person's face that preserved the natural color. As expected, this was not a pleasant duty and the girls would close their eyes when they had to change the cloth.
A neighbor, Engle, who once lived in a little house on the corner of the Lee farm became tired of life and got his razor to cut his throat. He had had an argument with his wife over a stepson. His wife, Mary, found him and luckily he survived. The words remembered by Lille Lee that Engle spoke when his wife had found him were; "What's done is done, Mary!" Lillie would hide when he came over to the Lee farm to fetch water.
Lillie Lee worked at the State Sanatorium at Booneville, AR for three years, then 22 years at the Wildcat Sanatorium in Ft. Smith, AR. Her husband was a schoolteacher and they lived in Sallisaw, Gurty, Atwood, and Poteau, Oklahoma.
The Lee sisters recount the times when their Mama used to light a pine torch and go outside to scare the "boogers" away; that was, wolves, panthers, raccoons, etc.
Zelmer Darrell Lee was a 32nd degree Mason and Sarah was a member of the Eastern Star
The Paris Express, dated 29 Jan 1931, “Zelmer Lee, son of the late Mr. Samuel Holland Lee, near Paris & Miss Sarah Cornish, Ackerman, MS, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. B. H. Cornish, announce their marriage in Philadelphia, 2nd Sep. She is a graduate of Leake County A. H. S. & J. C. The groom is teaching music & voice in MS & OK for several years. He is now associated with the Hartford Music company & headquarters in Henryetta, OK. He recently returned from Richmond, Indiana, where he was one of the C. L. Murphree’s quartet doing recording numbers for phonograph records”.
The Paris Express, dated 6 Dec 1945, “Guy Williams, miner living west of Paris, is in the Paris hospital suffering from a gunshot wound in a leg, received when he attempted to resist arrest by State Trooper, Tillie Loudermilk early Sat. night. Williams, who is charged with drunkenness & assaulting an officer, will be tried in J.O.P. court as soon as he can leave the hospital”.
The Paris Express, dated 6 May 1957, "Funeral services for Arthur William Doshier, 518 N. Madison, who died in Community hospital Tuesday, will be conducted from the Martin Funeral Home Chapel Thursday, May 3, at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Kresten Norholm officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairlawn Cemetery. He was presently operating the West Side Phillips 66 Service Station. Mr. Doshier was born Nov. 2, 1912, in Booneville, Ark. He was 60. He was married to Beulah Loyd, Oct. 14, 1933, in Sugar Grove, AR and they came to this area in 1943. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church in AR. Survivors include his wife of the home; 3 sons, Carlos, Dale, and Mike, all of Elk City; 2 grandchildren, Sandy and Kelly Doshier; 3 sisters, Mrs Harry Hames, Center Ridge, Ark., Mrs. Herbert Horton, Booneville, AR, and Mrs. Euil Luther of Elk City; 2 brothers, Chester Doshier, Grants N. M., and Raymond Doshier of Cement. He was preceded in death by his parents; 2 sons, Danny and Arthur, 3 sisters, and a grandson, Randy Doshier".
The Paris Express, dated 1973, "Funeral services for Beulah Loyd Doshier will be conducted from the Martin Funeral Chapel at 2 p.m. Tuesday, with Dr. Ed Saucier officating. Burial will follow in the Fairlawn Cemetery. Mrs. Doshier was born Jan. 3, 1919 in AR. She was married to William Arthur Doshier in Sugar Grove, AR, on Oct. 14, 1933. He preceded her in death on May 1, 1973. They came to Elk City in 1944. Following the death of her husband she moved to Booneville, Ark., where she lived until 1986 when she returned to Elk City due to ill health. Mrs. Doshier suffered a stroke in October. Her religious preference was Presbyterian. Survivors include three sons, Carlos and Dale, both of Elk City, and Mike Doshier of Burns Flat; also by nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren".
William S. Lee & Dicey Ennis
Britton Lee & Martha Collier