Lucinda Lee
Born 9 Feb. 1847 in Coosa Co., Alabama.[1] Daughter of John Percival Lee and Eliza Ann Foscue.[2] Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving 10 Sept. 1850.[3] Baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, May 1855.[4] Employed as a teacher, principal, and general superintendent of schools in Beaver, Beaver Co., Utah Territory; Ferron, Emery Co., Utah Territory; Payson, Utah Co., Utah Territory; Manti, Sanpete Co., Utah Territory; Ogden, Weber Co., Utah Territory; and Salt Lake City, 1862–1897.[5] Married Charles Wakeman Dalton, 3 Oct. 1868; six children.[6] Published poetry and essays articulating women’s issues and religious values in various editions of the Woman’s Exponent, Young Women’s Journal, Juvenile Instructor, and Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star, 1872–1903.[7] Worked as dressmaker, 1888–1922; skilled at needlework.[8] Active in the women’s suffrage movement; served as secretary of the Sanpete County Woman Suffrage Association, 1889, and addressed the Utah branch of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association at a mass meeting held in Salt Lake City, 1894.[9] Member of the Utah Woman’s Press Club with EBW, 1891–1892.[10] Political correspondent for the Woman’s Exponent, 1891–1894.[11] Authored Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch, a book edited by EBW for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.[12] Died 24 Nov. 1925 in Manti.[13]
[1] Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, Manti North Ward, Part 1, Segment 2, 1877–1941, p. 75, line 10, CR 375 8, box 3956, folder 2, image 15/412 (restricted access), CHL. Lucinda Lee Dalton, Autobiography, Circle Valley, Utah, 1876, Utah and the Mormons Collection, MS 8305, box 2, folder 28, CHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 27 Oct. 2020), Sarah Lucinda Lee (KWJK-J3F).
[2] Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, Manti North Ward, Part 1, Segment 2, 1877–1941, p. 75, line 10, CR 375 8, box 3956, folder 2, image 15/412 (restricted access), CHL.
[3] “Sarah Lucinda Lee,” Pioneer Database (https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/, accessed 27 Oct. 2020).
[4] Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, Manti North Ward, Part 1, Segment 2, 1877–1941, p. 75, line 10, CR 375 8, box 3956, folder 2, image 15/412 (restricted access), CHL. “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. F, 16 June 1866–25 Oct. 1868, p. 361, line 14, Lucinda Lee, 3 Oct. 1868, microfilm 183405, DGS 5270328 (restricted access), FHL.
[5] “Local News,” Southern Utonian (Beaver, Utah Territory), 17 Apr. 1885, 3. “Local News,” Southern Utonian, 24 Apr. 1885, 3. “County Teachers’ Association,” Southern Utonian, 25 Dec. 1885, 3. L. L. Dalton to Susa Young Gates, Susan Young Gates, Papers, ca. 1870–1933, MS 7692, box 53, folder 2, CHL. “Looking Backward,” Manti (UT) Messenger, 14 Feb. 1913, 1. “Record of Our Teachers,” Daily Enquirer (Provo, UT), 3 June 1892, 4. “Teachers Assigned,” Ogden (UT) Standard, 13 Aug. 1896, 3. “Assignment of Teachers,” Salt Lake Herald, 28 Aug. 1897, 7.
[6] “Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. E, 1 Jan. 1867–16 Aug. 1869, p. 170, line 11547, Charles Wakeman Dalton and Lucinda Lee, 3 Oct. 1868, microfilm 1149515, DGS 7226456 (restricted access), FHL. 1900 U.S. Census, Ogden, Weber Co., UT, ED 190, p. 13B, Lucina L. Dalton. “Veteran Teacher and Mother to Be Buried,” Manti (UT) Messenger, 27 Nov. 1925, 1.
[7] “A Plea for the Boys,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Nov. 1872, 86–87. L. L. D., “Letter from Beaver,” Woman’s Exponent, 15 Mar. 1873, 159. L. L. Dalton to Susa Young Gates, 5 Aug. 1890, Susan Young Gates, Papers, ca. 1870–1933, MS 7692, box 54, folder 4, CHL. Lucinda Lee Dalton, “The Place of Mormon,” Juvenile Instructor, 1 Aug. 1903, 451. Lu Dalton, “Woman,” Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star, 20 Mar. 1893, 204.
[8] “Classified Ad,” Sentinel (Manti, Utah Territory), 13 June 1888, 4. “The Winners at the County Fair,” Richfield (UT) Reaper, 15 Sept. 1921, 6. “The Prize Winners,” Manti (UT) Messenger, 29 Sept. 1922, 1.
[9] “R.S., Y.L.M.I.A., and P.A. Reports,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 July 1889, 23. L. L. Dalton, “Shall Utah Become a State without Woman Suffrage,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Apr. 1894, 113. “Woman’s Suffrage Association,” Salt Lake Herald, 5 Oct. 1893, 8.
[10] EBW, Diary, 15 Apr. 1891. “Utah Woman’s Press Club,” Woman’s Exponent, 15 Dec. 1891, 93. “U. W. P. Club,” Woman’s Exponent, 15 Mar. 1892, 133.
[11] L. L. Dalton to Susa Young Gates, 8 Sept. 1891, Susan Young Gates, Papers, ca. 1870–1933, MS 7692, box 54, folder 7, CHL. L. L. Dalton, “Shall Utah Become a State without Woman Suffrage,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Apr. 1894, 113.
[12] “Utah at the World’s Fair,” Salt Lake Herald, 16 July 1893, 10.
[13] “Utah State Archives Indexes,” database and images, Utah State Archives (https://archives.utah.gov/research/indexes, accessed 27 Oct. 2020); Utah Department of Health Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death Certificates, series 81448, file no. 122/435 (1925), Sarah Lucinda Lee Dalton. “Veteran Teacher and Mother to Be Buried,” Manti (UT) Messenger, 27 Nov. 1925, 1.