THOMAS LEE ALFRIEND,
Was born in Richmond, Virginia, February 19, 1843, and was educated
in that city. From 1859 to 1861 he clerked with Ludlam & Watson
and Shields & Sommerville. From 1861 to 1865 was in the Confederate
States army, private for two years, orderly sergeant the remaining two
years, was captured April 6, 1865, and sent to Point Lookout, and
held there until June 22, 1865. The next day he returned to Richmond,
and there he went into the insurance office of Thomas M. Alfriend &
Son as a clerk, the firm consisting of his father and elder brother (E. M.
Alfriend). In June, 1866, he became a member of this firm, and so remained
until, in October, 1879, he started his present business of insurance
agent in his own name.
Thomas M. Alfriend, father of Thomas Lee, was born in Petersburg,
Virginia, November 10, 1811, and died in Richmond, December 11,
1885. He was a son of Colin Alfriend, of Petersburg. The mother of
Thomas Lee was Mary Jane Eger, born in County Althone, Ireland,
died November 8, 1852, in Richmond.
In Richmond, July 2, 1868, Thomas Lee Alfriend married Eliza
Sanger Manson, who was born in Granville county, North Carolina.
They have four children: Mary B., Otis M., Sallie S. and Anna Lee,
and have buried one son, Thomas Manson, died July 28, 1870, aged
eleven months. Mr. and Mrs. Alfriend and their oldest child are members
of All Saints (Episcopal) Church, Richmond.
