Note:   Captain Lee passed away on Saturday, February 12, 1916 at his home in Valley View, Texas.

ANSWERS DEATH CALL
Gainesville Register
14 February 1916

CAPTAIN L. W. Lee, EARLY PIONEER OF COOKE COUNTY, YIELDS TO THE INEVITABLE

   Captain L. W. Lee, one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of Cooke county, died at his home in Valley View, the little city ten miles south of Gainesville, last Saturday evening at 7:40 o’clock, after an illness of several days, superinduced by lagrippe and general senility.

   Captain Lee was born in Howard county, Missouri, on October 27^th, 1831, being 84 years, 3 months and 16 days old at the time of his death.  He was married to Miss Mollie Fryer of Missouri on November 1, 1859; they moved to Texas in 1869 and later founded the little town of Valley View, where they have since lived.

   He is survived by his widow and two daughters, Mrs. J. M. Potter of this city, and Mrs. Roy E. Mann of Denver, Colorado.

   The funeral services were held at the family home in Valley View Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, after which the remains, accompanied by relatives and pallbearers, were brought to Gainesville and the interment took place in Fairview cemetery, and in compliance with the well known wishes and desires of the Captain the service was simple and the burial private.

   Captain Lee was honored, admired and loved by his friends and neighbors, for he was a man of sterling worth, intelligent far above the average man, well informed, a student of history as well as of current events and always had a fund of information to impart to his fellow associates when called upon for advice and good counsel.  He was truly a philosopher, modest and conservative and one of his chief aims in life was to dispense sunshine and happiness among his fellowmen.  He was a most generous neighbor and devoutly devoted to his family.  He was one of God’s noblest creatures—an honest man—charitable to all, ever courteous and pleasant and enjoyed the full blessings of life and endeavored in all of his associations to make every one about him realize than it was good to be here, and that a noble, consistent and delightful life was worth the living.

   Captain Lee will be missed by his devoted neighbors, among whom he had lived so long, as well as by his bereaved widow and grief-stricken children.  But there is a great consolation after all, and that is they can point to his life’s career as one of honesty, generosity and love of his fellowmen,--divine attributes—hence the world is better that this grand and good man lived, acted and spent a useful life long beyond the age rarely allotted to man.

   The family has the deepest heartfelt sympathy in this hour of mourning and contrite lamentation, over the loss of that splendid husband and model father.  Peace to his noble and generous soul.