re-interred at Manti -- based on the ...S & FM L... stone near the monument (presumably WS & FM LEE) and on sexton's records for 25 October 1898
From Sarah Lucinda Lee (Dalton)'s autobiography -- she was an older sister of Walton Skurlock Lee
(The autobiography is a 25 page handwritten letter from Lucinda to Emmaline B. Wells, The original is the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.)
When I was about sixteen years old, a beloved baby brother was very sick and sinking so rapidly that I had great fear that he would die; but I felt, in all humility, that I had lived near to the Lord, had tried to do His will and was entitled to claim the promise "Whatever ye ask in my name in faith that ye shall receive". Unknown to my parents, I fasted and prayed with intense fervor that the little one's life might be spared. I could not fail to see that he no longer grew worst, but neither did he grow better; but just remained at one point which was a point of deep distress. For several days he lingered thus, I felt like I had lifted heavy weight just to the edge of a place of rest but lacked the one-ounce of power necessary to deposit it thereon. Coming at one time suddenly into the room, I saw my mother wring her hands and cry in anguish: "Why, Oh why must my innocent baby suffer so much" If it is God's will to take him away, Oh, let his cruel sufferings end!" My heart smote me guiltily. Perhaps, thought I, it is God's will to take him, perhaps my shortsighted wishes stand between the beloved and his rest. I hastened away and with streaming eyes fell upon my knees crying: "Thy will 0 Lord, not mine be done" As soon as I was calm enough to reenter the sick room I did so and was struck to the heart by the change in the precious one's face and the same evening he died.
re-interred at Manti -- based on the ...S & FM L... stone near the monument (presumably WS & FM LEE) and on sexton's records for 25 October 1898
From Sarah Lucinda Lee (Dalton)'s autobiography -- she was an older sister of Walton Skurlock Lee
(The autobiography is a 25 page handwritten letter from Lucinda to Emmaline B. Wells, The original is the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.)
When I was about sixteen years old, a beloved baby brother was very sick and sinking so rapidly that I had great fear that he would die; but I felt, in all humility, that I had lived near to the Lord, had tried to do His will and was entitled to claim the promise "Whatever ye ask in my name in faith that ye shall receive". Unknown to my parents, I fasted and prayed with intense fervor that the little one's life might be spared. I could not fail to see that he no longer grew worst, but neither did he grow better; but just remained at one point which was a point of deep distress. For several days he lingered thus, I felt like I had lifted heavy weight just to the edge of a place of rest but lacked the one-ounce of power necessary to deposit it thereon. Coming at one time suddenly into the room, I saw my mother wring her hands and cry in anguish: "Why, Oh why must my innocent baby suffer so much" If it is God's will to take him away, Oh, let his cruel sufferings end!" My heart smote me guiltily. Perhaps, thought I, it is God's will to take him, perhaps my shortsighted wishes stand between the beloved and his rest. I hastened away and with streaming eyes fell upon my knees crying: "Thy will 0 Lord, not mine be done" As soon as I was calm enough to reenter the sick room I did so and was struck to the heart by the change in the precious one's face and the same evening he died.
Inscription
In Memory of Walton Skurlock Lee
(then his death date)
Aged 1 year 9 months and 10 days
Gravesite Details
The memorial is in the Manti Utah cemetery close to his mother's grave.
Family Members
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John Rupert Lee
1845–1913
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Sarah Lucinda Lee Dalton
1847–1925
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Ann Eliza Lee Wixom
1849–1908
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Mary Caroline Lee Black
1850–1935
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Margaret Lee
1852–1853
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Emma Roberta Lee Sutherland
1854–1940
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Edna Lee
1854–1854
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Charles Andrew "Charlie" Lee
1856–1933
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Ellen Lee Sanders
1859–1937
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Victor Percival Lee
1861–1861
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Rosamond "Rose" Lee Sutherland
1865–1946
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Frederick Montgomery Lee
1867–1869
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