had a ban on black Africans receiving the priesthood soon after this time and the fear of interracial marriages, such as Stanton's and McCary's, was seen as a big reason for that ban. Marriage to William McCary While in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lucy Stanton married William McCary, a skilled ventriloquist and musician in 1846. Her marriage to William McCary was not originally questioned on the bounds of Church doctrine, as Early L.D.S. doctrine did not restrict membership or marriage until shortly after McCary's excommunication. Shortly after her marriage, both Lucy and William both joined the L.D.S. Saints in Winter quarters Nebraska in 1847. Achievements After her marriage to William McCary, Lucy Stanton was encouraged to write a narrative on the life of her husband. She was told to write this narrative by a man named Reverend Lewis Allen. Stanton wrote a sketch of McCary's life entitled A Thrilling Sketch of the Life of the Distinguished Chief Okah Tubbee (Okah Tubbee being the name that William McCary assumed when living among Native Americans). In the original publication of this narrative, Reverend Allen was identified as the only author. However, revised versions published soon after credited Lucy Stanton under her Native American name, Laah Ceil. An 1852 version of this narrative was eventually published and it included more accounts written by Okah Tubbee himself. At the end of his narrative Okah Tubbee wishes to let Laah Ceil (Lucy Stanton) "speak for herself, for she does not like to hear me say that we made an engagement the first day, made an acquaintance the next, and was married so soon". Stanton used this opportunity to write about her education and religious convictions as well as give her own account about the beginnings of her relationship with Okah Tubbee. She wrote about her travels with her husband and their advocation for the rights of Native Americans and their opposition to forced relocation; this was likely based on her and her family's experience with relocation in her childhood. Lucy Stanton and her husband's visits to various groups of Native Americans such as the Choctaw Indians in Alexandria were recorded in this document. This expanded version of Tubbee's life sketch also included Tubbee's accounts of his early life before his marriage to Lucy Stanton. During his solo travels Tubbee also visited the Creek and Seminole Indians with a message that whites "would never give up the