UW La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photographs
The pilot is holding a hat which faintly reads Lee Line. The STACKER LEE was affectionately called STACK-O-Dollars since she made the Lee Line alot of money. Stacker Lee was the younger brother of James Lee Jr. and had a completely different temperment than his older brother. Sometime during one of the Yellow Fever outbreaks Stacker became infected but survived. The book Memphis Down in Dixie has quite a bit to say about Stacker. The STACKER LEE was built quite a while after Stacker died.
My mother was Beulah Lee, a granddaughter of Josiah Lee and Evaline Brizendine who lived near Galatin, Missouri. Her father was Robert Edward Lee. Rumor that Josiah was a younger brother of James Lee triggered my interest when I was searching for a
direct line to a Civil War veteran. I’ve always been interested in Lee genealogy and was
helped greatly by Mary Pyland, a distant cousin.