Extracted from The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, NC)
Tuesday, December 19, 1944

MRS. MEDIA J. LEE

Mrs. Media J. Lee, 78, died at her home on Four Oaks, Route 2, Monday night about six o'clock following an illness of two months.

Funeral services were held this (Tuesday) afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Barefoot's Free Will Baptist church with the Rev. J. R. Vann of Erwin officiating. Interment was made in the Lee family cemetery.

Surviving are her husband, W. F. Lee, whom she married in 1884, and ten some sons and daughters as follows: Sam B. Lee of Asheville; William G. Lee, Marion G. Lee, Verlin Lee, Mrs. Ella F. Blackman, Miss Vara Lee and Mrs. Lexie Barbour of Four Oaks, Route 2; Conly Lee and Homer S. Lee of Benson, Route 2; and Mrs. Vira Adams of Four Oaks, Route 3.

Mrs. Lee was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. Gideon Barefoot of Meadow township.