Marriage and Family
At age 17, LeFlore married Rosa Donly in Nashville, whom he met there and brought back with him to the Choctaw Nation when he returned in 1817. After her death, he married again, to a woman named Priscilla. He had ten children: William, Benjamin, Basil, Clarissa, Forbis, Jackson, Emily, and three other daughters.
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Famous quotes containing the words marriage and/or family:
“Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the straying of the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.”
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