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Mrs. Mary E. Lee, nee Ashe, daughter of Simon S. and Adelia M. Ashe, was born in Mobile, Alabama, January 12, 1851.

Her parents were in good circumstances and her father was prominent in business and benevolence among



colored people. In 1860 he purchased a farm in Ohio, in the vicinity of Wilberforce University, where he settled and schooled his children.

The subject of this sketch graduated in the scientific department of said institution in 1873, with Misses Mary E. Davis, Julia A. Shorter, Hallie Q. Brown, and