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 Taken about 1919 prior to her marriage to Newell B. Lee Dorothy Emma Swart moved from Saratoga Springs to Roxbury, Vermont when her mother remarried, after the death of her first husband, Frederick C. Swart. It was there that Dorothy met Newell. Dorothy was an only child, and Newell was the eldest of 13 children of Charles Newell Lee and Grace Minette Tryon. She described moving to the home of her new inlaws after their marriage, and sweeping up after the huge family of very active children, in a large farmhouse with bare wooden floors, with no end to the dirt and dust that was carried in by the family. They eventually settled in Rutland, Rutland, Vermont, USA, where they owned a house on Kendall Avenue, the house I came home to after my birth while my mother and father will still living with my grandparents. In 1960, they moved to 50 Easterly Avenue in Rutland. Every year we were away, when my sister and I were children, she sent a silver foil-wrappped fruitcake for the holidays, date filled cookies, and at Halloween, a box of candy, probably from Woolworths where she worked for many years, that always included packs of BlackJack gum. Politics were never discussed as far as I know in the household, as she was a Democrat, and Grandpa was a Republican. CAL Father: Frederick C. Swart b: 1872 in New York Mother: Mary Edith Tolmie b: 18 FEB 1874 in Saratoga, New York Marriage 1 Newell Byron Lee b: 18 DEC 1895 in Brandon, Franklin, New York, USA
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Lee's Trees
