- Rank: S1c
- Serial No: 262-45-17
- Branch: US Navy
- Home Town: Conway, SC
- Date Of Birth: August 23, 1921
- Disposition: Unrecovered
- Family DNA on File: YES
S1c Henry Lloyd Lee
Henry Lloyd Lee was born at Conway, South Carolina on August 23, 1921, to John Lee, a farmer, and Agnes “Aggie” Gerrald Lee, a homemaker. He was the 8th of 14 children.
Two boys died as infants in 1930 and 1934, one from pneumonia and the other from colitis.
Calamity struck in July 1937 when the father died of a brain hemorrhage.
Henry completed his schooling after 9th grade at Conway High School in 1939 and enlisted in the Navy on Nov. 29. He was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Two of his brothers, Boyd and John, served in the Army during World War II.
The mother, who died at 91, outlived two more of her children. A daughter died of an accidental gunshot wound, at age 17 in 1943. Son John died in a car accident at age 39 in 1963.
There is a cenotaph for Henry at Good Hope Baptist Church Cemetery north of Conway. His parents are buried there.
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Sources: The Greenville (South Carolina) News; Census; Navy muster roll; cenotaph; grave markers. The photo is from the book “Young American Patriots of World War II,” published in 1946. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.