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Lucy Grymes Lee

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(1734-1792)

BIRTH

April 26, 1734

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NAME

Lucy Grymes

DEATH

1792

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FAMILY

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BROTHER

Henry Lee IV

(1787-1837)

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SISTER

Anne Kinloch Lee Marshall

(1800-1864)

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BROTHER

Sydney Smith Lee

(1802-1869)

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BROTHER

Robert E. Lee

(1807-1870)

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Lucy Grymes Lee (1734–1792), daughter of Charles Grymes of Moratico and Frances Jennings, married Henry Lee of Leesylvania in 1753. Their children included cavalry commander Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, attorney general Charles Lee, and congressman Richard Bland Lee. She lived at the Potomac plantation and was buried there beside her husband. Tradition identifies her as George Washington’s “Lowland Beauty,” but that romantic identification is not firmly established.

EARLY LIFE

Lucy Grymes Lee was born on Apr 26, 1734. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.

No distinct public profession or office for Lucy Grymes Lee is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.

CAREER

DEATH

Lucy Grymes Lee died in 1792. Lucy Grymes Lee, daughter of Charles Grymes of Moratico and Frances Jennings, married Henry Lee of Leesylvania in 1753. Their children included cavalry commander Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, attorney general Charles Lee, and congressman Richard Bland Lee. She lived at the Potomac plantation and was buried there beside her husband. Tradition identifies her as George Washington’s “Lowland Beauty,” but that romantic identification is not firmly established. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.

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