His first wife was Lula Twilligear (Twillegan?). They were married in Walla Walla on June 16, 1902. They had two children, Blaine and Nova. There is a Nova Lee in the RootsWeb Death Index who died September 27, 1916, in Twin Falls, Idaho.
In a 1913 Ellensburg, Washington, city directory, Albert and Lula Lee are listed at RD 1, property value of $575, and Elvira Lee, widow of Andrew, is listed with a house at 210 S. Pearl, value $50.
The Idaho death index shows Lula F. Lee as having died in August 10, 1914, in Twin Falls. She had been born June 27, 1886.
He married Mineola Bishop Doty Lee on Oct. 17, 1915, in El Dorado, Kansas (her hometown). They had four children: Dale, Ruth, Edith Aldona, and Annabel.
He died October 5, 1957, in Nampa, Idaho.
The 1900 Census shows Albert Lee, 17, born June 1882 in Missouri, living at Flat Creek, Barry County, Missouri, with his mother, Elvira Lee (born in Washington D.C.? Was his mother misleading the census taker?) Her age is listed as 53, and others in the household in addition to Albert are her children Walter, 22, and Lucrecia, 16.
The 1910 Census shows Albert Lee as being 27 years old, birthdate about 1883 in Missouri, home in South Kittitas [census tract?], Kittitas County, Washington. Married to Lulu Lee, 24, one child in the home, Nova Lee, age three.
1920 Census: Albert Lee, age 36, born about 1884 in Missouri, home in Pleasant Valley, Canyon County, Idaho [an area south of Kuna?]; married to Ola Lee, 30. Children: Fred H. Doty, 10; Blaine F. Lee, 9; Dale A. Lee, 3, and Ruth M. Lee, 1.
1930 Census: Albert, 47, married at age 33, born in Missouri, father born in Pennsylvania [?], mother born in England [!?], occupation farmer. Also in the household, Ola, 40, and four children: Dale, 13; Ruth, 12; Edith, 9; and Annabel, 3, all born in Idaho. Their home was listed as Sunny Ridge, Canyon County, Idaho.
1940 Census: Albert, 57, born about 1883 in Missouri, home in Nampa; father's birthplace Virginia, mother's birthplace England; occupation real estate agent, home owned and worth $2,500. Completed second year of high school. Worked sixty hours in the week prior to the census and fifty-two weeks in 1939. Others in the household are Ola, age 50; Ruth, 22; Edith, 19, and Annabelle, 13.
At some point in time between the 1910 and 1920 censuses, he took a train to Washington State with the money from the sale of his mother's land in Missouri, so I was told, and bought a wheat farm in the vicinity of Ellensburg, in central Washington not far east of the Cascades.
(According to an online history of that region, the first wheat crop was planted in 1868, production jumped after the horse-pulled thresher was introduced into the valley in 1877, and five flour mills were built in the vicinity of Ellensburg even though "the county's yellowish flour was deemed suitable only for local consumption and for trade with the Orient." See About the County.)
Later they moved to Buhl in Twin Falls County, in central southern Idaho, where his first wife died, and then on to Nampa in about 1917, according to Ola Lee's obituary in the Idaho Press-Tribune.
According to an online history of the Nampa School District, Sunny Ridge School, south of Nampa and about two miles east of the Lee farm on 12th Avenue Road, "started in 1911 with 12 pupils. Soon children were having to sit around the room on benches. When Albert Lee tried to enroll his boys, Ira Thompson, with seventy pupils, refused to take them. Mr. Lee not only found desks for his boys somewhere, he became a member of the school board. (See History of the Nampa School District.)
That could not have happened in 1911 because the family had not left the Twin Falls area, and Blaine and Fred weren't old enough to go to school. They would have been about six and seven, respectively, in 1917.
Albert Lee also had a part in founding the Southside Boulevard Methodist Church, across the road from Sunny Ridge School. (EAS)
World War II draft registration card.
World War I draft registration card.
