I have had communication with Lee Bruce McNair’s great grandson, Lee Doyle McNair. He just celebrated his 94th birthday. Here is the information that I have gathered about Lee Bruce and his wife, Virginia Estelle Ratliff.
Lee Bruce McNair was born on 26 Aug 1840 in Bradley Co., Tennessee. He was the eleventh child of John and Mary Ann McNair.
1840 census
His father, John “Jack” McNair, had committed his life to
the military. When he finally married, John was 18 years older than his wife,
Mary Ann Sherertz. After the death of John, Mary Ann moved the family to Searcy
Co. Arkansas to be near her eldest son James Claiborn McNair. This move would
have been sometime around 1852.
Lee B. enlisted in the Confederate Army, Company G, 27th Regiment Arkansas Infantry on June 19, 1862. Lee remained with the 27th for the duration of the Civil War. After the War,
Lee B. roamed through Oklahoma and finally settled in the 'Forks of the River' area, 8 miles Northwest of Trenton, Grundy County, Missouri.
After marrying Virginia 'Jennie' Ratliff in April 1878, Lee B. seldom left his farm, dying there at the age of 93. He and his wife, Jennie, are buried in the Salem Church Cemetery in the 'Forks of the River'.
U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865. “L.B. McNair,” Film # M376, Roll 16; National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online <http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/>, acquired 2007. [online database: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007]
Webpage of family historian Lee Doyle McNair
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