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Every journey begins with a single step. When I took the first step of filling out a simple pedigree chart I had no idea that I had just begun a marvelous journey. As I gathered together names, dates and places from my box of scraps and copies of old, musty family group sheets, I turned to my computer to aid me in the search. Computers and their search engines are amazing! Stories about our ancestors began popping up all over. Growing up with a storytelling father, I always knew we had an interesting family. In fact, the art of storytelling seems to run in the family. The stories I found about these ancestors brought them to life for me. Finding stories on the internet was like putting together a very large and complicated jigsaw puzzle. My quest took me to many small communities and their museums and cemeteries. As I searched for missing pieces, the picture became clearer. I began to know and love these people. I am inspired by their faith, amazed by their endurance and humbled by their sacrifices. They were also not perfect. I extend to them the gift of compassion and understanding that they did the best they could with what they had and what they knew and believed. It is my hope that you will enjoy learning about our family and find inspiration in knowing who they were and understanding who you are.


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What's In a Name?

Documentation

The information presented here is well-documented for at least 3 generations beyond Coral & Percy and most often more. Some of the further generations reflect work done by others and were acquired through Ancestry.com & One World Tree. They should be viewed as a "guide" and not specifically as factual. I have tried to remove anything that seemed in error.

Black Family Pedigree Chart

Black Family Pedigree Chart
Clifton Lee represents all of Coral & Percy's children.

Writings of the Lee Women

The LEE WOMEN


Coral Ellen Jakeman Black
     Coral was born in Beaver, Utah in 1879.  Her father, James Jakeman, was a newspaper publisher and her mother, Ellen Lee Sims Jakeman, was a writer.  They lived in several central Utah towns where her father published newspapers, finally moving the family to Provo, Utah.  Coral attended BYU Academy and discovered her own talent as a writer.  She wrote many stories and poems in the LDS Church magazines, The Juvenile Instructor and the Young Woman's Journal. She married Percy Black.  They raised six children in Provo and later Salt Lake City.
Stories and Poetry of Coral Jakeman Black




Ellen Lee Jakeman Sanders

One of the most interesting, as well as capable, women of Utah County was Mrs. Ellen Lee Jakeman, of Provo City. She was born in Beaver, Beaver County, in 1859, a daughter of John P. and Eliza Foscue Lee, pioneers of 1858. She was married to James Thomas Jakeman in 1878 and their children were Mrs. Ivy Snow, Mrs. Cora Ellen Black, James Franklin Jakeman, Mrs. Gladys Anetta Saunders and Spencer Wells Jakeman. Ellen early showed great literary talent and when the Young Women's Journal was established in 1889, she assisted Susa Young Gates and Lucy B. Young in helping to canvass Utah Territory so as to place the magazine in the homes of the Latter-day Saints in order that reading material suitable for both the parents and children of our church would be available.The first issue of the Journal, which appeared in October, 1889, has an article entitled, "Spiritualism, or What Became of Murphy?" written by Mrs, Jakeman. In December of 1889, another article, "Tell the Truth," was published. A story, "We Tread the Dust," came out in the January issue of 1890 and in February of the same year "Ghosts of the Past," her first poem, made its appearance. "The Western Boom," her first continued story, was written in May of 1890, and the serial ran through Volumes I and 2 of 1890 and 1891. Other contributions continued through the years.She also wrote for the Juvenile Instructor in the early years of its publication, as well as later and she was a consistent contributor to the pages of the Relief Society Magazine. She wrote articles for the Provo and Salt Lake newspapers also.
Preaching the Gospel--Young Women's Journal (Ellen pp 35-40).



Lucinda Lee Dalton

Thanks to the influence of Lucinda’s father, education was prized in the Lee home, and he tutored her at home until she could attend public school at age six. For Lucinda, school consumed her as she found a sympathetic teacher who called her a “diamond in the rough.” School days were short-lived as she moved from pupil’s desk to teacher’s podium when only twelve to assist her father in a school he opened. Although younger than the teenaged girls attending the school Lucinda exceeded them in knowledge. Four years later she began teaching in an infant school, followed by a stint in a common school with older students.Teaching in Beaver, Utah (1868), enabled her to be independent and to continue her own education as she studied, keeping just ahead of her students. She took particular pleasure in the writings of Fanny Fern (pen name of Sara Payson Willis Parton), author of Ruth Hall (1855) and first woman newspaper columnist in the United States. In tandem, she wrote for the Woman’s Exponent on her favorite theme: the innate nobility of women. She became a suffragette for the nation and for her own territory (Mormon women had the vote from 1870 to 1887, regaining it in 1895). Her numerous journals and letters are lost, most likely destroyed by this intensely private person (Anderson, 150).

A Schoolmarm All My Life
Joyce Kinkead, editor 
Chapter 8 -- Lucinda Lee Dalton 

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