Anne Robinson Lee

Anne Robinson MCCARTY was born 28 SEP 1798 in Pope's Creek, Westmoreland Co, Va, and died 27 AUG 1840 in Paris, France.

Family

She was the daughter of Daniel MCCARTY and Margaret ROBINSON.

She married Henry "Dark Horse Harry" IV LEE 29 MAR 1817 in Pope's Creek, Westmoreland Co, Va, son of Henry Gen (Light Horse Harry) III LEE and Matilda LEE. He was born 1787 in Stratford, Virginia, and died 30 JAN 1838 in Paris, France.

Their only child was Margaret who died as a child.

Notes

From Henry Lee IV Wikipedia (retrieved March 2018)

On 29 March 1817 he married Anne Robinson McCarty, daughter of Daniel McCarty and Margaret Robinson. Anne and Henry had one child, Margaret. Margaret was born in autumn of 1818, and died at the age of two in a tragic accident.[2]
Lee's nickname of "Black Horse" - a pun on the nickname of his famous father, "Light Horse" Harry Lee - originated in a scandal two years after his daughter's death. Lee began an illicit affair with his wife's young sister, Elizabeth, who was his ward at the time.[3][4] According to at least one version of the story, Elizabeth became pregnant, although there's no record of the child having survived.[3] McCarthy family brought suit to remove Lee as trustee of Elizabeth's inheritance and recovery of the money. Unbeknownst to the McCarthys, Lee had misappropriated a portion of the trust for upkeep of Stratford Hall Plantation, the Lee family's ancestral home for six generations. In order to conceal the misappropriation, Lee attempted unsuccessfully to marry Elizabeth off to an unscrupulous suitor.[5] The legal fallout and resulting scandal forced Lee to sell Stratford out of the family.[3][5] Elizabeth McCarty lived at Stratford for 50 years, from 1829 until her death in 1879.
Anne Lee, who had become addicted to morphine in an attempt to recover from grief at the death of her daughter, fled to Tennessee,. She was often a guest of future president Andrew Jackson and his wife. Henry Lee later followed, beseeching his wife for forgiveness.[3] Andrew Jackson befriended Lee and began to assist in rehabilitating him in political and social life.

Footnotes

• 3. Davis, Louise Littleton (1989). ""Black Horse Harry" Lee". Frontier Tales of Tennessee. Pelican Publishing Company. 73 to 75.
• 4. Storrow, Samuel Appleton (6 Sep 1821). "Correspondence of Samuel Appleton Storrow". The Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home Virtual Museum.
• 5. Nagel, Paul C. (1991). The Lees of Virginia. Oxford University Press 206 to 212.

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From https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fox2&id=...

Dr. Stuart was connected to the Lee family in other ways. He inherited General Lee's birthplace, Stratford Hall in 1879 from his half sister, Elizabeth "Betsy" McCarty Storcke, one of his mother's two daughters from her first marriage. Mrs. Storcke's husband, Henry D. Storcke had bought Stratford Hall when it came up for auction in 1828, after substantial gambling and other debts forced Robert E. Lee's elder half brother "Black Horse Harry Lee" to sell the house which he had inherited from his mother, Mathilda Lee
There was more than an element of poetic justice in Mrs. Storcke ending up the owner of Stratford Hall. Her elder sister, Anne Robinson McCarty, was "Black Horse Harry's" wife. The sisters were the victims of the Lee family scandal in which "Black Horse Harry" took advantage of his wife's younger sister who was his ward. He got her pregnant but the baby was stillborn. He also managed to fritter away both his wife's inheritance and his sister in laws. His wife left him because of the incident but they were later reconciled and moved to France.

Sources

• Pryor, Elizabeth Brown, and Robert E. Lee. Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters. New York: Viking, 2007. googlebooks Retrieved March 10, 2009 page 35

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Cross links

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