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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wife No. 1, Aggatha Ann,* marched beside him for 33 years. In 1866 she fell ill, and as "Mortification" set in, Lee "watched with her all Night, lifting & turning her in Bed about every 5 minits." As in an Old Testament tale, the huge family assembles at the deathbed to hear the dying injunction, while son Joseph rides to the mountain for a "Bucket of Snow" to cool his mother's lips. Meanwhile, "the Lumber previously dressed up" stands ready for the coffin-for this is a pioneer story in which prayer and practicality are never far apart...
...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...
...easy to see why these Diaries have lain so long like buried treasure. They tell a story that must still be painful to Mormon pride; they dig up terrible incidents that many would rather forget. And yet, thanks to the quality that was in John D. Lee, and thanks to the healing march of time, no American can read these Diaries without thrilling to the roughhewn courage and tenacity that is written in every page of them...
...Lee later married Aggatha Ann's two sisters and finally their widowed mother, "for her soul's sake...
Harvard's Bon Hockscher lost to Henri Salaun, second ranked squash player in the U.S. yesterday in the finals of the Middlesex Bowl Tournament, 15-9, 15-5, and 16-14. In other matches, Tom Lee (H) lost to Harold Kaene, 3-0; Lee Folger (H) lost to Hugh Nawn, 3-0; Charles Hamm (H) lost to Heckscher, 3-0; and Rodger Cortesi (H) lost to Salaun...