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Lee's grandfather George Washington Custis was the step-grandson and adopted-son of George Washington

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I added: [b]Lee's grandfather George Washington Custis was the step-grandson and adopted-son of George Washington.[/b] - Brad Watson 71.196.11.183 (talk) 21:26, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bolling

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'...he married Mary Tabb Bolling.' Guessing that Bolling is not the commonest name, was she any relation to Edith Bolling, who married President Woodrow Wilson? Valetude (talk) 16:51, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

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I have assessed this article as Start-class and identified the following areas for improvement:
  • The article is not comprehensive and needs expansion
  • The article needs inline citations
plange 06:09, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 06:09, 5 October 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 10:39, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Slaves

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Since the question of whether the Category "American slave owners" applies to W.H.F. Lee has come up, I checked for reliable sources to settle the issue. This is a tough one, since there don't seem to be a lot of sources that mention it directly. However, I did find this one, which explicitly refers to "Rooney Lee's slaves." In the 1860 census, Rooney Lee is shown as owning a very large, valuable estate, but I can't access the 1860 slave schedule to get a count on how many slaves he may have had. PohranicniStraze (talk) 03:33, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]