(probably back 7 generations to Ireland)
O’Laoi family mottos:
“Non incautus futuri” (Not unmindful of the future”)
“Courageux” (“Corageous”)
“Deus fortitudo mea” (“God is my strength”)
“Dum spiro spero” (“While I breathe I hope”)
“Fide et fortitude” (“By fidelity and fortitude”)
Thomas W. Lee, Sr.* (c.1780-before 1830)
Catherine Miller (1794-after 1830)
I
Thomas “Tommy” Lee, Jr. (1816-1900)
Elizabeth Brenneman (1816-1890)
I
Christian F. Lee (1858-1906)
Laura Catherine Speicher (1859-1919)
I
Annie J. Lee (1885-1971)
Charles Frederick Krause (1884-1973)
I
Hilda Elizabeth Krause (1921-1997)
Richard Orville Miller (1920-2015)
I
Susan Kay Miller (1949- )
Larry Edsel Pearce (1948- )
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Annie Rebecca Pearce (1971) Matthew Carter Pearce (1973- )
* One source suggests that the “W” stood for William, possibly his father, who may have resided in Bedford County, PA, before Somerset County was established.
DOCUMENTATION:
see Vitals, “Introduction: Lee,” and “Meet our Great-great Grandfather Tommy Lee”
Sir John Bernard Burke. The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. London: Habeison & Sons, 1884
Janice Lee, Hutchinson, KS, presenter at Casselman Historians Annual Meeting, 16 Sept. 2011, Grantsville, MD
U.S. Census, Bedford & Somerset Co’s 1790-1880, Public Member Family Trees, & other documents. Ancestry.com
Last revised: 12/30/16