Emma Lee

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Plate I. Lee’s Ferry, on the Colorado River, looking upstream. The x marks one end of Lee’s ferry cable. It was here in 1872 that Emma Lee helped John D. Lee establish the ferry service that would be the only crossing into Arizona for Mormon colonists until 1928. (Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City) PLATE II. Lonely Dell, where Emma and John lived until he was taken into custody late in 1874. Emma continued to live here and operate the ferry until 1879. (Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City) PLATE III. Thirty miles from Emma's Lonely Dell, John established Rachel at the Pools. In this photograph, 10hn D., William (Billy), Rachel, and Amorah stand before the willow shanty that they later replaced with a stone house. (Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City) PLATE IV. Juanita Brooks, author of Emma Lee, The Mountain Meadows Massacre, John Doyle Lee: Zealot-Pioneer Builder- Scapegoat , stands beside the Lee's Ferry Monument erected in 1966 by the descendants of John D. Lee. (Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City) PLATE V. The Mountain Meadows Massacre occurred four months before the marriage of Emma Batchelor to John D . Lee but its shadow touched their lives for the next twenty years. (Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City) PLATE VI. Emma Batchelor Lee French (1836-1897). Her strong faith in herself and life carried her from the green of England to the harshness of a handcart journey to Zion to the opening of a frontier at Lonely Dell to her final chapter as a beloved healer in Winslow> Arizona. (Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society >Salt Lake City) ...