Jettie Ann Lee [born: Whitlow] of Sacramento, California

This limited Ancestor and Descendant Family Page is for Jettie Ann Lee [born: Whitlow]. Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi 30-12-1882, she died in Sacramento, California on 2 September 1969. The information in this Family Tree is a humble tribute to the memory of the only ancestor whom I have known. Data and exhibits will be added as possible. However, be it remembered that upon the death of her daughter, Claire Josephine Lee, this webmaster acquired Gradma Lee's husband's Military Burial Flag, Family Bible given to her son, Jack Lee, in 1947, and her last pair of shoes and stockings, among the scant possessions of "family value" as relecs. These will be passed on to a surviving member of "Gran'ma's," by Grace Kimiye Kenmotsu, of Foster City, California, who was with Claire when she died, November 2005, in Pacifica, California. Genealogical data for the Whitlow family posted here was provided in 1982 by Dorothy O'Brien, formerly of Arthur City, Texas. She has since chosen not to respond to further contact. Claire Josephine Lee had long stated that the oral tradition of the Whitlows, from whom Jettie descends, were from Scotland. From a document by the Historical Research Center this name traces to the east of Scotland, both Fife, as well as Dunbar. Nevertheless, I have never succeeded in going back in the genealogy before 1803. My mother stated that her ancestor "jumped ship" after the Revolutionary War, and for that reason, may have changed his identity to what we have today. Grace and I are, however, active members in the Murray Clan Society of North America, of which His Grace, Lord John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, is Chief of Clan Murray. We are very good acquaintences of His Grace, and have been invited to visit him in South Africa, should the opportunity arise. We will attend the Scottish Homecoming in Edinburgh Castle in July 2009, and shall be with Clan Murray at that time. The kith and kin of Jettie Ann Lee are welcome to join their Scottish kinsmen under the Sept, Dinsmore, at Scots' events, such as Burns Suppers and Highland Games.

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Family Photos

• The 86th birthday of Clarie Josephine Lee (266 KB)
  Claire Josephine Lee's 86th, and last, birthday, celebrated with her son, Robert, and then girlfriend, Grace Kim Kenmotsu, Pacifica, Ca., July 1995.
• Densmore and Whittlow (21 KB)
  Claire Josephine Lee with her uncle, Robert Boone Densmore, named after his great, great uncle, Daniel Boone, founder of Kentucky.
• William Martin Brill, and children (190 KB)
  William Martin Brill and his children, Robert, Henreitta, David, and Clara, taken by his sister, Lou MacWalters, cir. 1949, Los Angelese, Ca.
• William Martin Brill and descendants (27 KB)
  William Martin Brill and his descendants, from a photograph taken at the home of maternal nephew, William Neil Hankin.
• Claire Josephine Lee in Washtington, D. C. (17 KB)
  Claire Josephine Lee as a model in washington D. C. She was featured in cigarette, car, and other product advertisements, about 1951-3.
• Brills buried at Lutheren Church, Zumbra Falls (24 KB)
  The parents, a sister who died in childhood, and others of William Martin Brill are b uried at this remote Lutheren Church, Zumbra Falls, Minnissota, where they lived as share-croppers.
• Bobby, at left, and David, third from left (179 KB)
  Bob and David Brill, with unknown boys, at Aunt Annabelle's and Uncle Earnie Remington's, north of Sacramento, cir 1948
• Claire Josephine Lee, children, and grandchildren (233 KB)
  Missing from the photograph of the progeny of Clair Lee is Denise Jacquline Brill, whereabouts unknown.
• "Gran'ma," Jettie Ann Lee as young lady (269 KB)
  Jettie Ann Lee, approximently 18 years old, place unknown. Her grand-daughter, Virginia Ann Floudine, had a mirror-like similarity at the same age.
• Dennis Elmer Lee as a child (228 KB)
  This photograph of Dennis Elmer Lee was obtained in the personal effects of his daughter, Claire J. Lee, upon her death. She said that her father said that, "I wouldn't name an ol' yellar dog Elmer!"
• Jettie Ann Lee with her daughter, Helen Canfield (79 KB)
  Jettie Ann Lee with her daughter, Helen Densmore Canfield, her husband, Ed, their son, James Faulkner, granddaughter Virginia Ann, and unknown neighbors, in Garden Acres, North Sacramento, cir. Not seen, but living with Aunt Helen, was Bobby Brill. cir. 1946.