Charles Kleber Lee

b. November 1866, d. 3 June 1931
  • Charles Kleber Lee was born in November 1866 in Texas.
  • He married Lucie Frances Campbell, daughter of Clark Calhoun Campbell and Lucy Caroline Goree, on 16 December 1895 in Galveston County, Texas.
  • The following appeared on 17 December 1895 in the Galveston Daily News, under "marriage licenses": Charles Kleber Lee and Miss Lucie Frances Campbell.
  • The following appeared on 18 December 1895 in the Galveston Daily News: Last evening at 6 o'clock, at the residence of the bride's parents, Dr. and Mrs. Lee [sic], Seventeenth and Postoffice streets, Mrs. Charles Kleber Lee was married to Miss Lucie Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Lee left on the evening train for St. Louis. They will return by Christmas. Mr. Lee is the assistant general attorney of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and is held high in the estimation of the officers of the road.
  • Charles Kleber Lee and Lucie Frances Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Galveston, Texas, at 1905 37th Street. Other members of the household included Clark Calhoun Campbell, Lucy Caroline Goree and Clark Calhoun Campbell III. Also in the household one female servant. It appears that nephew Clark C. Campbell was enumerated in two different households in this census.
  • He was a lawyer, according to the 1900 census.
  • Charles Kleber Lee and Lucie Frances Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at 904 West Fifth Street.. Other members of the household included Francis Jefferson Wren and Mary Annis Berry.
  • He was a lawyer for the railroad, according to the 1910 census.
  • The following appeared on 20 June 1911 in the Galveston Daily News: Mr. and Mrs. Kleber Lee and Miss Mary Berry have returned to Fort Worth after a delightful visit. Miss Emma Lee returned with them, to be their guest for a few weeks. Miss Berry was here during commencement and all the senior class parties and frolics.
  • Charles Kleber Lee and Lucie Frances Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at 1404 South Adams enumerated next to B. K. Goree and his wife Lucie Wren.. Other members of the household included Mary Annis Berry, John Gideon Gregg and Lucie Lee Gregg. Also in the household was one female domestic servant.
  • He was a lawyer in general practice, according to the 1930 census.
  • The following appeared on 9 July 1929 in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: (Bedford, July 8) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kleber Lee, of Fort Worth, Texas, announce the marriage of their niece, Eloise Douglas Berry, to Edward Davis Gregory, of Bedford, Va., at 10:30 o'clock, Saturday morning, July 6, at Christ Episcopal Church, Seventy-first Street and Broadway, New York City.
         The wedding ceremony was witnessed by only a few relatives and near friends, and was performed by the Rev. William Hall Williams, of Christ Church, who was a friend of the bride and the family, when residing in Austin, Texas. After the ceremony there was a reception to the wedding party and guests at the home of Mrs. A. W. Gregg, 1085 Park Avenue.
         At 3 o'clock, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory sailed on the Hamburg-American Line steamer Deutschland for a month in England, Scotland and Ireland.
         The bride is a daughter of the late James M. and Emeline Berry, of Bedford, Va. She is a graduate of the University of Texas, and has doen post-graduate work at Harvard and Columbia Universities.
         The groom is the son of the late Rev. Edward S. Gregory, of Lynchburg, and Mrs. Ellen Davis Gregory, now of Bedford. He is president of the Frazer Paint Company of Detroit, Mich; president of the Blue Ridge Talc Company, of Henry, Va., and vice-president and general manager of the American Pigment Corporation, of Bedford, and Hiwassle, Va.
  • Charles Kleber Lee and Lucie Frances Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at 1404 South Adams. Other members of the household included Mary Annis Berry, Lucie Lee Gregg and John Clarke Berry.
  • He was a lawyer in general practice, according to the 1930 census.
  • Charles Kleber Lee died on 3 June 1931 at age 64 in Galveston, Texas, at St. Mary's Infirmary.
  • His wife Lucie Frances Campbell became a widow at his death.
  • He was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas.
  • The following appeared on 4 June 1931 in The Galveston Daily News: Funeral services for Charles Kleber Lee, 64, eminent Galveston jurist and member of a prominent local family, who died Wednesday morning at St. Mary's Infirmary after a long illness, will be held Thursday in Austin. The body was forwarded to Austin Wednesday night by J. Levy & Bro. and services will be held from Wood's chapel there. Mr. Lee had been connected with the legal department of the Santa Fe Railway for many years, with headquarters in Fort Worth. He was born in Galveston and moved to Fort Worth in 1901. He was the son of the late Charles Hawkins Lee and Emma Jones Lee and a brother of Dr. George Henderson Lee of the faculty of the State Medical College, and Thomas J. Lee of Vera Cruz, Mexico. He is survived by his wife, who was before her marriage Miss Lucy Lee Campbell; a [adopted] daughter, Mrs. John G. Gregg; two granddaughters; several nieces and a nephew. Before his death Mr. Lee had been ill about a year and a half.
  • Last Edited: 16 Dec 2012

Family: Lucie Frances Campbell b. 28 March 1867, d. 6 July 1943