What Lee after Robert’s generation was world-renowned, or at least nationally renowned?
Bruce?
“Too bad, that the Lees were a VERY prominent family of VA long before Robert Lee led the Confederacy, and basically ended the fame of the name.”
Perhaps I misunderstand what you have said. I interpret your comment to mean that General Lee ended the fame of the Lee family name.
General Lee did nothing to tarnish his name, his children’s names, or his ancestor’s names. The Lee name is, and will continue to be, famous as long as there are those that love the American tradition.
Not surprisingly, no subsequent member of the Lee family has surpassed, or equaled, the name of Robert E. Lee.
To borrow from Daniel Webster (in another context): “Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again.”