Lee museum disputes slave connection

PUCE The discovery of a tombstone that supports a local family's lore about its relation to an American historical figure has stirred up a lot more than just dirt.

A marker bearing the name Ludwell Lee found at the Puce Memorial Cemetery in October seems to support a local family's story that revolutionary war hero Light Horse Harry Lee fathered its ancestor Ludwell Lee's mother, a slave named Kizzie, making Ludwell the half-brother of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Officials at Stratford Hall, the Lee ancestral home in Virginia, say there's still no proof of Ludwell's relation to the Lee family, but Elise Harding-Davis, a retired curator of the North American Black Historical Museum in Amherstburg and a member of that local family, sees things differently....