Anne Fairfax Washington Lee
17 Sep 1728 - 14 Mar 1761
Anne Fairfax Washington Lee (1728-1761) was born in 1728 in Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts, British Colonial America. She was the daughter of William Fairfax and Sarah Walker. She married Lawrence Washington on 19 Jul. 1743, and they had four children; widowed 26 Jul. 1752. She married George Lee on 16 Dec. 1752, and they had three children. She died in 1761 and was buried in Coles Point, Westmoreland Co., Virginia, British Colonial America. She was one of the eminent women for whom Wilford Woodruff initiated proxy temple ordinance work in Aug. 1877.
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