contributed by Peggy Ingram

[Note: capitalization below was present on the original Bradley County TNGenWeb page at rymerleebio.html]

Rymer, Jake Ervin, b. n.c. 3-24-1863, d. 9-18-1956 m. Margaret Amy (unknown) Rymer, b. n.c. 3-21-1848, d. bradley county 11-9-21
children:

minnie josephine, b. polk county 8-6-1886, d. bradley county 5-17-1959
john ernest, b. polk county 4-7-1891, d. 5-17-1944

Minnie Josephine Rymer m. James Franklin Lee, son of Sterling Lee and Maggie Battles. children of Minnie and James:
**Sterling Rose Lee was the son of Rev. William Carroll Lee a pioneer pastor of the First Baptist Church in Polk Co., TN. Wm C. Lee was the son of James Lee who died in a typhoid epidemic in his thirties. James was the son of Capt. Thomas Lee b. 1729 who was in the Militia and received a large land grand in Eastern Tennessee for his service in the Revolution.

flavius joseph, b. 7-18-1875 – founder pentacostal church, Lee University namesake
william lafayette, b. 2-18-1877, d. 1921 bradley county
alora cate, b 12-22-1878
lily louisy, b. 11-19-1880
mamie alice, b 2-27-1883
james franklin, b 4-15-1885, d. 8-1972, son of **Lee, Sterling Rose, d. 1-26-1920 Bradley County m 6-14-1874 maggie battles lee, d. 7-10-1909 bradley county m. minnie rymer
perlie, b. 8-22-1887, d. 9-10-1898
felix bryan, b. 12-8-1889
robert edmond, b. 11-23-1893, d. 5-8-1898
jerome 9-13-1896