Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 596.

ANN MARIA (PITMAN) LEE

     Sailed from New York in July, 1836; landed in Oregon , June, 1837; married
July 16th, to Rev. Jason Lee, and died June 26, 1838; died when her first-born
child was ten days old, and is buried with it in the Lee Cemetery, at Salem.
The headstone of their grave bears the inscription: "Beneath this sod, the first
broken in Oregon for the reception of white mother and child, lie the remains of
Ann Maria Pitman Lee."


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.