Word: batchellor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wife No. 17, Emma Batchellor ("a more kindhearted, industrious, & affectionate wife I never had"), is the nearest thing to a riot in all the Diaries. Emma did not wait for Lee to propose, but flatly "said that I on first site was the object of her Choice." Emma poured kettlefuls of hot water on one of her husband's enemies and scratched his face until it was "a gore of Blood." When scandalized Bishop Pace commanded that Emma be "re-baptized" to atone for such conduct, "Emma asked the prevelege of choice in the man to Baptise...
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