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Lee wed the former Irene Drake (1888–1957),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lee&GSfn=Irene&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1117&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=78282108&df=all&|title=Irene Drake Lee|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}</ref> a member of a prominent Minden family. The couple had two sons, W. B. Lee, Jr. (1911–1969), and Drake Lee, who is not listed as a survivor in his brother's 1969 obituary, and a daughter, Elizabeth Lee Ewig (1918–1973).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Ewig&GSfn=Elizabeth&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=91035348&df=all&|title=Elizabeth Lee Ewig|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}</ref> Lee's brother, [[Captain]] Wood Lee, died in the [[Spanish–American War]].<ref name=jmleejr />
Lee wed the former Irene Drake (1888–1957),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lee&GSfn=Irene&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1117&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=78282108&df=all&|title=Irene Drake Lee|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}</ref> a member of a prominent Minden family. The couple had two sons, W. B. Lee, Jr. (1911–1969), and Drake Lee, who is not listed as a survivor in his brother's 1969 obituary, and a daughter, Elizabeth Lee Ewig (1918–1973).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Ewig&GSfn=Elizabeth&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=91035348&df=all&|title=Elizabeth Lee Ewig|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}</ref> Lee's brother, [[Captain]] Wood Lee, died in the [[Spanish–American War]].<ref name=jmleejr />
Lee was a [[Southern Baptist]] and a member of the Masonic lodge. He died early in 1938 at the age of fifty-four in a Shreveport sanitarium after an illness of one week. He is interred with his wife and daughter at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=bio /> Burch Lee, Jr., was a [[journalist]] formerly with 'The Shreveport Times,'' the defunct ''Houston Post,'' and with the ''San Antonio Express-News'' at the time of his death at the age of fifty-eight. He fought in [[World War II]] under [[General]] [[George S. Patton, Jr.]], and is interred at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in [[San Antonio]].<ref name=burchjr>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3030342|title=W. Burch Lee, Former Local Resident, Dies|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 22, 2015}}</ref>
Lee was a [[Southern Baptist]] and a member of the Masonic lodge. He died early in 1938 at the age of fifty-four in a Shreveport sanitarium after an illness of one week. He is interred with his wife and daughter at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=bio /> Burch Lee, Jr., was a [[journalist]] formerly with ''The Shreveport Times,'' the defunct ''Houston Post,'' and with ''The San Antonio Express-News'' at the time of his death at the age of fifty-eight. He fought in [[World War II]] under [[General]] [[George S. Patton, Jr.]], and is interred at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in [[San Antonio]].<ref name=burchjr>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3030342|title=W. Burch Lee, Former Local Resident, Dies|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}</ref>
A namesake grandson, W. Burch Lee, III, was living in 1969 in [[Heidelberg]], [[Germany]].<ref name=burchjr />
A namesake grandson, W. Burch Lee, III, was living in 1969 in [[Heidelberg]], [[Germany]].<ref name=burchjr />