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fight for some of their property that was stolen while they were off fighting. Rogers was wounded in a shoot-out over his property but he survived to regain what was his. Theresa married William Sims.
Not much is known about them except William's parents were listed in the 1850 Hancock County census as living near Peytcn and Annie.
One source says she died and bore no children. Another says they moved away from here. Elizabeth married Frances Lenoir. They raised their family near Carriere. Helen married Benjamine Sones.
They raised their family in Sones Chapel Community.
So we can see that Peyton and Annie were brave people that were willing to move to pioneer country and carve out a home. Not much is known about them. Annie was red-headed and was reported to be a very kind woman, eager to tend to sick people and loving to cook and bake and share with her neighbors.
Mary Ophelia Lee, daughter of James Zackariah Lee, related to me that her father once had possession of our family tree record that reached all the way back to England. She used to set and look into the book as a little girl and marvel over all the names. Back then, very few people ha!d photographs but they kept a lock of hair by the name of the relative they were recording. She remembered that Annie's hair was red. This book burned along with all her family's possessions when their house burned down. What a treasure it would be to have that old family record. But we have had to make do with what we could trace by other means.
Today, they have thousands of decendants. Their children married into other frontier families. The Lees are now related to almost all the original families that were located in this area.