My best friend works at Missouri Town, although I haven’t visited yet myself. The official story, as far as I know, and according to Wikipedia, is that it was named after Dr. Lea. Considering there is a Pleasant Lea Lake, and Pleasant Lea Elementary School, I think it’s more than plausible. It’s mostly the Confederate sympathizers who’ve believed it was named after General Lee.
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I will have to look into it more then. Note I think Wiki is a good base source, but it isn’t definitive. IIRC the Gen Lee connection was on the city’s official site. But again, this was 12+ years ago. While MO didn’t join the Confederacy it was a slave state, and given that there are Confederate Memorials all the way out to the West Coast, naming a town in the General’s honor is also plausible.
Missouri did and didn’t join the Confederacy. There were 2 governors during the war, with the pro Confederacy government in exile in Arkansas. And of course the Youngers are buried in the Lee’s Summit Historic Cemetery. I just checked the city’s website, and they have both name origins listed, with no definitive statement as to which is correct.
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