[3] He formed a joint practice with celebrated trial attorney Mathew Edmiston, of Weston in Lewis County.
[4] In 1840, Lee owned three enslaved people, two women younger than 23 and one man,[5] but appears absent from the slave schedules associates with the 1850 and 1860 federal censuses.
In 1852, Virginia legislators elected Lee to the Court of Appeals, judge Briscoe Baldwin of Staunton having died in office.
[6] The separation of West Virginia was recognized in 1866, and another western Virginian elected to the seat.
Lee died at his home in Clarksburg, West Virginia on November 20, 1873.