[2] On 22 June 1910, Lee married Frances Cunningham Finch (1888-1951), the daughter of a local postmaster in Monroe County, the unincorporated community of Finchburg being named after an ancestor.
[8] Before Lee concentrated on real estate title legal work, he once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper.
After traveling in Europe, Nelle Harper Lee moved to New York City to become a writer, following the track of her friend Truman Capote.
[11] Within six weeks in 1951, after his youngest daughter moved to New York, Lee lost both his wife (who long suffered fragile health and died of cardiac arrest days after receiving a cancer diagnosis) and son (a pilot who succumbed to an aneurysm in his barracks), so he sold the family home and moved into a smaller house with his daughter (and business partner) Alice.
[14] The following year Gregory Peck carried Lee's pocket watch as he accepted an Academy Award for portraying Atticus Finch in the movie version.