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--- On Fri, 12/2/11, Lee, Billy R <billy.r.lee(a)lmco.com> wrote:
From: Lee, Billy R <billy.r.lee(a)lmco.com>
Subject: Amie Estella Carmack (Lee).
To:Date: Friday, December 2, 2011, 6:15 PM
Hi,
I am Billy Ray Lee and am researching my grandmother who is Amie Estella Carmack (Lee).
I found a comment you made Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011. The following information shows my
Carmack relationship.
Amie Estella Carmack was born in 1895 to Jonathan Robert Carmack and Martha Elizabeth Jane
Holder. I have a picture of Amie and her Mother in 1901 on Amie’s wedding day. Family
tradition is that Amie’s full name was Amie Berry Tommy Dan James William Alcey Ann
Estella Frances Carmack. It is not totally clear why she inherited all these names, but
reviewing the Holder family, all these names appear as relatives.
Sometime before 1900 two of Amie’s brothers, Ossie and Jessie and her father Jonathan
Robert Carmack died. Amie’s mother Martha was left with son Pell and daughter Amie and no
way to support them. Pell went to work as a farm hand for a family in Faulkner County, a
neighboring county near El Paso, Arkansas, where they were listed in the 1880 census
living near his uncle Pell and Willoughby. Martha moved with Amie to Van Zandt County,
Texas to live with her brother James Holder and her sister Alcey Ann.
Amie met George Alvin (my grandfather) perhaps while working in a cotton field and at age
16, married George Alvin Lee July 21, 1901 in Lampasas, Texas. I have a picture of them on
their wedding picture. They lived in Lampasas for the several years. She and G.A. had 7
children 5 of whom lived to adulthood: their youngest child (Steve George Lee) was my
father.
I hope I have not scarred you off but I am trying to find more information about Amie who
died in 1916 when my father was only 3. I have a few stories. In 1910 they were living in
Scurry county where Pell lived. Pell is suppose to be listed in the 1910 census and I bet
that G.A. and Amie would be on the same census if I can find how to get to it.
I hope you are willing to share information.
cousin
Billy Ray Lee