Lucy Stanton McCary was a Mormon woman who married and followed William McCary during his time as a prominent member of the LDS community at Winter Quarters in Ohio. She played a prominent role during William McCary's apostasy and followed him during his excommunication and prophetic claims. Her relationship with William McCary influenced early Latter Day Saint policy and doctrine in regards to race, sexuality, and gender roles. Many scholars argue that the LDS Church's ban on interracial marriage and the ordination of peoples of African descent to the priesthood was influenced by Lucy Stanton's relationship with Milliam McCary and the events that followed in Winter Quarters Ohio. Early life Lucy Stanton Bassett, also known as Lucy Celesta Stanton, also known as Laah Ciel Manatoi, was born in New York on December 28, 1816. Her father was Daniel Stanton and her mother was Clarinda Graves; Lucy grew up with seven siblings, five sisters and two brothers. Soon after Lucy was born, her and her family moved to Missouri. This move to the southern United States was in reaction to a treaty that was agreed upon by the Delaware Indians, a tribe of which the Stanton's were a part of (later in her life, Lucy Stanton would write about her opposition to forced relocation of Native Americans). The treaty, created in 1818 included the relocation of the Delaware tribe to the James Fork of the White River in Missouri. In 1833 she married a man named Oliver Harmon Bassett. Around the year 1839 Lucy and her husband moved to Quincy, Illinois in Adams County with their three children. The first of their children was Solon Plumb Bassett born in 1834, next was Anna Clarinda Seraphine Bassett born in 1837, and last was Semera LaCelestine Roslin Bassett. In 1843 Lucy and her husband were divorced. Another treaty with the Delaware Indians required Lucy's family to move again. This time they moved close to the Kansas-Missouri border. It was here that Lucy Stanton met William McCary, an African American man, a former slave, and convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who had escaped from his master in his youth. In the time of early 1846 Lucy Stanton and William McCary got married. This marriage between a white woman and an African American man was frowned upon in the LDS community. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints famously