Word: polygamist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Cora T. Hebner, 55, famed polyandrist (five husbands), wife of Polygamist Will Hebner (19 wives); by her own hand (poison); in a Pocahontas, Ark., jail where she was being held for the murder of a man (presumably Will Hebner) whose skeleton neighbors discovered in her cellar (TIME, April 18). She left a note saying: "I did not kill Will Hebner. He brought me the poison with which I killed myself. . . . I'll rob you of any further fun and cheat the natives out of a Roman holiday...
...Roberts, 76, president of the First Council of Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon); of diabetes complications; in Salt Lake City. Elected to Congress in 1898, he was refused a seat by a 5-to-1 House vote because he was an avowed polygamist...