number of other church leaders were present in May 1854 and helped the daughter of Isaac Horton WILLIAMS and Margaret WALKUP. action was supposedly taken. Thus it was that when John set out on this trip across the plains with the 1848 company, he had along Agatha Ann with her children, her mother Abigail, and her sister, Rachel, both of whom were sealed to him, and three other plural wives: Martha Barry, Polly Young and Lavina Young. They laid out the town of Kanab and made Levi Stewart the bishop. Our historian, Orson F. Whitnev's statements about that most regrettable deed are correct. His wife, Teressa, moved north to live with a married son by a previous marriage; Ann Gordge later took her baby and went north to seek employment. Thus, six months after he was baptized, John and his family were on their way back to safety at Vandalia, Illinois. Here he was greeted cordially, was invited to stay for supper, introduced to the family and given the full evening for visiting and discussion. She later left him also, taking her baby with her, and leaving a little girl and boy with the family. The one at Cedar City was held at 2 P. M. When I reached Cedar City the meeting was in session. families as he could, even visiting the settlements occasionally. the stand as witnesses, and men in good standing in the Church testified Early This story of John telling a bird to fly swiftly to his home, written in a fine lyrical verse in his diary, and of Rachel's having a bird appear at her door and act in such a way that she knew she must go to her husband, is one of the priceless traditions of the Lee family. WRITTEN AT HIS DICTATION AND DELIVERED TO WILLIAM W. BISHOP, ATTORNEY FOR LEE, WITH A REQUEST THAT THE SAME BE PUBLISHED. Graham, Arizona. Because, under Mormon doctrine, John Doyle Lee was allowed to have multiple wives, he had to travel much of the time 1932 West Virginia Mountaineers football team (129 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article He came across the Mormon faith via his longtime friend, and founder of the LDS Church, Joseph Smith Jr. Lee himself continued to profess his innocence. his wife. and two other young wives, Martha Berry and Louisa Free with her small He had been a schoolteacher, and was known as a man of honor, but he was now an older man, whose health failed until he died on Oct. 20, 1819. John Doyle Lee by Jeffrey S. Hardy. Lee returned to Salt Lake in July 1851 to move his family south to the place he planned to call his home, a place called Harmony. The old captain seemed to get tired and would stop to rest, and would say, "How much more?" Lee further maintained that LDS President Brigham Young had no knowledge of the event until after it happened. Best of all, he was allowed to teach a school among the young men in the jail in which he made a table and benches for their use, set copy for them to write, listened to them read, and generally encouraged them to a better life. During the summer a condition of civil war prevailed in which one excess called forth another, until an attack on Far West was threatened. August of that year, he was sent across the continent to Santa Fe, was born March 14, 1867. Best of all, he was allowed to teach These accounts, naturally, vary widely in their factual accuracy, but many contain the classic elements of anti-Mormon paranoia: fear of Mormon political and economic power and horror at the sexual depravity assumed to be implicit in plural marriage. She was born 7 Jan 1799 in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee. Finally, Lee moved to Vandalia, Illinois, where he met and married Agatha Ann Woolsey in 1833. and heartbreaking. also died young, soon after the third child, Sarah Jane, was born. indicated that he would be pleased if Lee escaped, and his sons at His body was buried in the Panguitch cemetery. a single animal.". John Doyle Lee. bed on the evening of February 6, 1862. There, under directions from Brigham Young, he was instrumental in the formation of several communities and became a successful farmer, rancher and business man in Iron County, Utah, serving as the local bishop and Indian Agent to the Paiute Indians. and sent out three more teams under the direction of John Laub. by underfed teams traveling on uneven terrain. 5, 1841; Brigham Young took his, Lucy Decker, on June 15, 1842. disapproval. Other families from the north had settled at the They would say "More yet," until I thought the atonement was fully made. In fact, Lee was the man selected to ride his cousins, the Conners, about fifteen miles north of Kaskaskia, Illinois. Lee's first trial ended inconclusively with a hung jury, probably because of the prosecution's misguided attempt to portray Brigham Young as the true mastermind of the massacre. Of these, Mary Ann Williams left him to marry his oldest son, John Alma; Teressa Morse, a middle-aged woman who had refused to go with her husband, Soloman Chamberlain, and Ann Gordge was an emigrant girl from Australia, whose first child was born March 14, 1867. a school among the young men in the jail. There was some sickness also, and one death. George Rogers Clark. Nancy died 3 Mar 1903 in Parowan, Showing John Doyle Lee as an heir to Elizabeth Doyle a descendant of Henry Smith. into Arizona until another boat was built. D. Lee should be called to run the mill. Always, he had insisted that he would prefer death to dishonor, and he had given his word to be at Beaver on Sept. 11th. calm; he spoke clearly; he asked only that his executioners center Terressa died He was allegedly a member of the Danites although this has been disputed. He made a table and benches If my work is done here upon earth, I ask God in Heaven in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, to receive my spirit, and allow me to meet my loved ones who have gone behind the veil. On June 16, 1873 a great storm blew a tree into the large His wife, Rachel, was allowed to join him in the penitentiary, paying for her way and part of his freedom by cooking and washing for the prisoners. 150 . where they established Fort Harmony. The people included Agatha Ann and her four children, her mother, Abigail, her sister Rachel, and two other young wives, Louisa Free, with her small son, John Brigham, and Martha Berry. Life, confession and execution of Bishop John D. Lee, the Mormon fiend! June sixteenth, many pioneers crossed on the ferry, both going to His commitment impressed the church leadership, and in 1843 he was chosen to guard the home of the church's founder and prophet, Joseph Smith. Birth: Sep. 12, 1812, Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Illinois, USA, Death: Mar. his families from the adobe fort which was beginning to disintegrate days in Nauvoo. By that President Young then suggested That gave some proof of John D. Lee's statement, for his mother died took three additional wives in one ceremony: Nancy Gibbons Armstrong a struggle. president of the United States, and with that in mind he sent out Also, the Catholic religion was more prominent in the area since it is an area that was originally settled by the French. call to arms, much drilling of militia, and repeated rehearsals of On April 19, Louisa Together with his son, John David, and his friend, Tom Clark. fourth John D. returned to the Salt Lake City area to attend to his However, by the late 1860s, questions about the massacre became more and more difficult to avoid, and in October 1870 Brigham Young excommunicated Lee from the Mormon Church for his role in the affair. at Washington, where Lee later built an impressive rock mansion. Philanthropy that ever characterized the Nobleness of his Character.". His Aunt was a quick-tempered, sharp-tongued woman who did not spare the rod upon her own children nor the little extra boy of the group. As part of the work of building up the Kingdom of God, Lee eventually married eighteen more women and fathered sixty children. Together At that time Kaskaskia, the capital city of the Territory of Illinois, was the most important town on the Mississippi River, the center of activity for a large area. and went north to seek employment; Lavina and Polly had homes at Skutumpah; She was born about 1812. gathered a small Indian tribe on the site. With this formal declaration against him, Lee was now a hunted man. Richards: A few days ago we had a visit from the Toquer Captain (or Black Chief), so called by the South Pah Eed Indians, with about thirty of his warriors. This time he had four wagons and a number of cattle. It was settled in 1803 when a French Jesuit priest If a witness forgot all else that had happened, They were little George A. He was taken to the massacre site, where he was executed by a firing squad on 23 March 1877. that he left the Conner home to make his own way. and Lavina Young, each of whom would bear a child in about three months. He was a friend of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint Movement, and was the adopted son of Brigham Young under the early Latter Day Saint Law of Adoption doctrine. He had several episodes of severe illness; drought followed by torrential rains destroyed many of his buildings and crops; former neighbors preyed upon his livestock and otherwise took advantage of his absence; several of his wives deserted him. At the close of the trial, the jury was divided, half for In late August 1846 he was sent to Santa Fe to collect what he could of the wages of the Mormon Battalion to help with the general maintenance of the people. They laid out the town of Kanab where Levi Stewart Jacob Hamblin, the noted Mormon Peacekeeper and owner of the Mountain Meadows grazing rights, invited the wagon train to camp for a while in the safety and security of the meadows. The next several years brought a continued decline in Lee's fortunes. He had a blind bridle in his right hand. John Doyle Lee was born on 12 September 1812 in Kaskaskia, Randolph County, Illinois, to Ralph Lee and Eliza Doyle. Lee never denied his own complicity, but claimed he hadn't personally killed anyone. John married (8) Martha Elizabeth BERRY 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. Nancy Armstrong fell victim to the plague and died at could arise during a long war. with the 1848 company, he took with him Aggatha Ann with her children; and he had given his word to be at Beaver on September eleventh. taking her younger children, Lee had married other wives after his 2 Nancy Bean – 17 (32) 2/1844 or 11/4/ 1844 1 Born 12/14/1826 MO Died 3/3/1903 Div. John Doyle Lee. meantime the doctrine of plurality of wives was being taught and practiced Perhaps others of his records that the Mormon leaders had agreed that the Saints would leave the Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska. The bishops of twenty-two wards had reported that the foodstuffs of the camp were almost depleted, and the only chance for survival seemed to be to send to the Missouri settlements for more supplies. The decision to call the tragedy "an Indian massacre" The next three days, he traveled with the group from the North, taking leave of them at Kanarraville on April 8th, where he recorded that; "President Young implicitly enjoined it upon me to see after the ferry, and not let the boat get away from me into the hands of our enemies, and not to hire the gentiles to tend it.". him all the way to the Mountain Meadows for his execution was probably time before the death of his second child, Lee had sheltered some Other participants in the massacre took The reformation within the church had been started the year before, wherein all members were catechized and exhorted to renew the covenants they had made in earlier days in Nauvoo. John D. spent the next four years in the care of a black nurse, in the home of John Doyle, who died in 1819. the administration of the Church decided to push hard to colonize - 1866?) It was a dry year, so that many of the water holes on the Arizona side of the stream were dry, and most of the people sent to establish colonies were forced to return. The first one was early He finished it the night he sat up with the corpse of his little Elizabeth Adeline. John Doyle Lee (1812 - 1877) How do we create a person’s profile? Today As they moved through the state along the Old Spanish Trail, they met with opposition at every town. among strangers. Lavina Young. He left Emma and the wagon at Washington and aid. Lee told Brigham Young that the Indians had been solely responsible, that "no white men were mixed up in it.". By the late 1860s he was being harassed by his Mormon neighbors who were also ostracizing his children. He met the Woolsey family and soon fell in love with the oldest daughter, Agatha Ann. Utah State Penitentiary. One member of that intrepid little army was John Doyle, the maternal grandfather of John Doyle Lee. had a conference with President Young in which he asked for and was home Lavina gave birth to a son, John David, on March 19, 1851. During that summer a condition of civil war prevailed Of his wife Elizabeth Smith, we know nothing except John Lee's Letter to Brigham Young Concerning Massacre. move south. Nebraska. rode over to St. George on horseback, arriving at Brigham Young's He remained calm; he spoke clearly; he asked only that his executioners center his heart and not mutilate his body. Williams remained with her Aunt Marcia Allen and did not join the Hardest of all were the long, empty times when for months they would see no human being. 18 May 1841: Elder Lee reports false doctrine being taught by William and Alford Young in Putnam Co., Tenn. He started his first mission with Levi Stewart, traveling with him into Tennessee, where they separated, Stewart to work among his own kinfolk, and John to proselyte among strangers. His wife, Terressa, moved north to make her home The reason for that was probably because the prosecution was actually putting Brigham Young on Trial. Thus of his faith and loyalty, because he was just beginning to prosper It was captured by the He was returned to Utah for a trial which ended without a verdict. This selection from the writings of John Doyle Lee include his autobiography, his confession (regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre), letters, poems, last words for his families, as well as related historical documents regarding his arrest, trials and execution. Her loss was felt by all, since as the first John D. Lee was a prominent early member of the Latter Day Saint Movement in Utah was sentenced to death for his complicity in the Mountain Meadows massacre. That is one of the priceless traditions of the Lee family. used my utmost endeavors to save them from their sad fate. Since the history of this place is so closely tied up with the ancestry and early life of John Doyle Lee, it would seem worthwhile to review it briefly. Many were rebaptized, and People refused to sell them grain or other foodstuffs, having been counseled to store it all against the need during a long war. land, raise crops, build homes, and accumulate some few comforts. the Mississippi. After Smith was murdered, he went to Utah with most of the other Mormons. In addition, there was internal dissension over the doctrine of plural marriage, which had been formally announced within the church in 1843. I have always felt he was used as a scapegoat and certainly was faithful to his church. English during the Indian Wars of 1763. Williams – no date. But he was an older man whose health failed until he died on October brought Lee's name into the later reports. Live faithful and humble before God, that we may meet again in the mansions of bliss that God has prepared for his faithful servants. He practiced plural marriages and is reported to have had nineteen wives and sixty-seven children. also. Within a few days of this disaster, John was warned that officers were on their way to take him into custody and advised to cross the river into Indian Lands in Arizona. & I believe that President Young has suffered this to take place late that year. to give up their land, homes, and all their property except their her husband. She later left him also, taking her baby with her, and leaving a little girl and boy with the family. attended meetings regularly and carried out many assignments in the 1870 Lee accompanied Brigham Young and a group of explorers to the Oliver Reed's widow Elizabeth then returned to live nine The talk now was of all moving to the mountains, but it was clear that only a picked company could make the trip the first season. He worked on a steamboat and proved his trustworthiness to a merchant, a Mr. Boggs, at Galena, Illinois, where he learned more of the world and business. Apache, Arizona. ahead to mark the road, cut down high banks, and select camping places Indian name for Kanab. That also helped to identify him with the incident, and the fact that President Brigham Young and a number of other leaders were present and helped to select the site and lay out the fort, May 20, 1854. the late snows made it impossible to plant crops and the cold froze decided to establish a cotton mission in the extreme southern part - 1814?) in the south. found some natural pasture and took up land. He first secured a job riding the mail through a long stretch of sparsely settled country. The John Doyle Lee papers (1841-1982) comprise two categories of documents: diaries and journals written by Lee between 1841 and 1851 and documents written about Lee at later dates. the time of John Doyle Lee's birth Kaskaskia, industry and trustworthiness. meantime his family affairs had become more complex. who had earlier refused to go back with her husband, Solomon Chamberlain; Emma died 16 Nov 1897 This classic biography is now in its fourth USU Press printing. separated, Stewart to work among his own kinfolk and Lee to proselyte and privations of frontier life, his long absences on trips for the John Doyle Lee Family Reunion August 30-31, 2013 449 S 300 E St. George, UT 84770. shows of the treatment of criminals in the state during that era. They had been driven from Jackson County earlier, and being the majority in that new area, they resolved to try to protect themselves and their property. That he did Nancy Bean and Louise Free, each of who bore him a child, left him and crossed the plains with their parents. Word of the action reached the southern settlement on August 4th. After serving briefly in the Mexican-American War as a member of Brigham Young's "Mormon Battalion," Lee joined the gathering masses of Zion in Utah. thousands through the second winter. Illinois was the capital city of the Territory of Illinois, the most their parents. had some smaller houses under construction. disharmony in his household. At age three, his mother died after years of lingering illnesses, leaving Lee to his alcoholic father. Among that group were some ten hired drovers who general policies and could be compared to a president's cabinet. My prayer is, May God bless him with light and with the intelligence of Heaven to comprehend the things of God and discriminate between truth and error....". As to the reasons which prompted him to act as he … 1883 in Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona, and was buried Jul 1883 in Nutrioso, Lee had an intense fateful day, or death before a firing squad if he would not." Many of the gentiles were hostile on purely religious grounds, but they also resented the political and economic power which the cohesive Mormon community had acquired. John D. Lee Circa 1877, photograph by James Fennemore (Church History Library, Salt Lake City). His pattern Mary died 8 Feb 1882 in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, no man I hate worse than a traitor. out. That John Doyle Lee was born in Kaskaskia, Illinois, on September 12, 1812. in Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona. At the October conference his name was read from His position of guard over the Prophet and also Brigham Young made it possible for Lee to be taught this principle also. Then As described in verse in his diary, he asked a little bird to was so favorable that Lee was overjoyed. thus activated their military organization. John married (7) Polly Ann WORKMAN 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. In a land where there was little of either plant or animal life, it They expressed great anxiety to have us settle among them, so they could "manika" (work) for the Mormons, like the Pah Eeds at Parowan. Some time … Illinois. President Young then suggested that Lee buy a half interest in the mill, sell out his property at Harmony, and move out to the new settlement. leaders were taken to prison and all the Far West citizens were forced Lonely Dell, attended only by her twelve-year-old son. was in mid-September. After and remained nine months, working alone, planting and harvesting crops. I have done nothing designedly wrong in that unfortunate and lamentable affair with which I have been implicated. She was born 14 Dec 1826 in West Troy, Lincoln, Missouri, the daughter Of note: There may be some replete of items above in this Article. You should charge a suitable price for your labor. and returning from Arizona. 1833 and set up their home nearby. When his neighbor, Levi Stewart, brought him a copy of the Book of Mormon and told him of a personal meeting with the youthful Prophet, John decided to read the book. One month after his return, he sent out three more teams under the direction of John Laub, for the settlement was large and hunger stalked in nearly every home. journey began on June first and lasted until September 23, 1848. Young, by whom they were submitted. was another great sacrifice, for the prospective home was in the midst I much regret to part with my loved ones here, especially under the odium of disgrace that will follow my name. Hamblin, completely innocent in the tragedy that followed, might have been able to prevent it had he not gone to Salt Lake City to visit Church leaders. dragged on, with no witnesses in good standing in the Church appearing, such an impressive manifestation that he knew without a doubt from and turned over the money on November twentieth, but he remained in he had remarkable success. At For Lee, it marked a change in the whole course of the parties through the southern settlements. visiting authorities in his home in the south and traveled as a member and freedom, if he would tell all that he knew of what went on that years old, went to live with the family of her guardian, George Fisher. was finally released on bail of $15,000 on May 11, 1876. Hello Select your address Best Sellers Today's Deals Electronics Gift Ideas Customer Service Books New Releases Home Computers Gift Cards Coupons Sell arriving in late August at Winter Quarters. You should charge a suitable price for your labor. President Young continued to stay at the Lee home and to give him The arrival at the sit of the new VANCE and Sarah Lavinia Gant PERKINS. Title John Doyle Lee Date Created and/or Issued 1852-01 Contributing Institution Huntington Library Collection Otis Marston Colorado River Collection Harmony he was preparing to leave the Fort and move to a site about It was a dry year, so that many of the water holes on the Arizona side of the stream were dry, and most of the people sent to establish colonies were forced to return. Working chiefly among the well-to-do class, His grandfather spoke Indian as well as French. Throughout his life Through all this, he maintained a great hope for a retrial in which On September 7, 1857 a group of Mormons under the leadership of Lee, and disguised as Paiute Indians, laid siege to the wagon train. fruit, molasses, honey, tallow, dry beans and twelve hundred pounds Now other participants took the stand as witnesses, and men in good standing in the church testified as to what they had heard. Within a few days of this disaster, John was warned that officers were on their way to take him into custody and advised to cross the river into Indian Lands in Arizona. were made. that formal declaration of excommunication against him, Lee was then April 19, Louisa Free, Caroline Williams, Abigail Woolsey and Rachel Woolsey.". trial moved with dispatch. Elizabeth died in November 1815. Nancy Bean and Louisa Free, each of So the Captain had him tied to a liberty pole [Community flag pole], and took the end of a short lariat and he did his duty to him, too. the tenth anniversary of their entrance into the valley. 15 May 1841 Elder Lee writes of success in his mission in Tennessee, baptizing upward of thirty. John had a cabin finished before the first snow in November, and had taken the cattle to the banks of the Big Cottonwood creek where he found some natural pasture and took up land. Lavina and Polly had homes at Skutumpah; Caroline at Panguitch; Rachel at Jacob's Pools; and Emma at Lonely Dell. soon as possible, the Lee family were on their way, arriving back By the late 1860s, his diary, and letters from several of his wives, speak of persistent harassment by his Mormon neighbors for his connection with the massacre, including threatening letters and the ostrasization of his children. They When Elizabeth's health failed, Ralph began drinking to excess. Young and a part of his family joined the group on February fifteenth. He took two of his wives and left the Salt Lake Valley in late December 1850. So Lee pursued a romance with another young woman and in 1833, the twenty-year-old Lee married nineteen-year-old Aggatha Ann Woolsey. Over the past 5 years, it has been a privilege and honor to serve the John D. Lee Family Association … wife, she had much to do with directing family policies. Lee became a member of the Danites, a secret fraternal order that was pledged to defend the rights of Mormons. that conviction stayed to strengthen him. of 1861 became known in southern Utah as "the Year of the Floods." Lee said, "Yes," and the white man and the red man was glad that the difficulty was settled. Individual confrontations soon exploded into near warfare involving murder, destruction of property, and cycles of raids and counter-raids between the Mormons and gentiles. in Nauvoo. the end and read the words of Moroni in Chapter 10, Verse 4, he received for the night. Ann Gordge took her baby Nothing could have been harder to take than this, for Lee had been loyal for so many years that he loved the Church better than life itself and nothing could be more eloquent of his feelings than the entry he made in his diary under date of November 22, 1870. law officers were on their way to take him into custody and that he while he was gone on one of his numerous trips, and Sarah Caroline Brigham Young, the defacto leader of the Mormons, had started. time Lee was beginning to feel more and more the weight of public It is my last word… I have been sacrificed in a cowardly, dastardly manner.” – Last words and the execution of John D. Lee as About this time a company en route to California arrived in the state, among whom it was said were some of the men of Missouri who had participated in the persecutions at Nauvoo, even some who had been present when the Prophet Joseph was martyred. The collection consists of letters, documents and manuscripts of John D. Lee documenting early life in Utah. On this date in 1877, Mormon leader John D. Lee was shot at the site of (and for the crime of instigating) the Mountain Meadows Massacre 20 years before. the cause. 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