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Show 179 that she might not finish, what might Maggie's feelings have been by the fourth child ^he_ produced during her student years? Psychological associations of pregnancy being what they are, did Maggie in time see Milford merely as a potential interruption on her path to her professional goal? At any rate, the "several estrange- 3 ments and reconciliations" which the marriage had seen might imply that, unlike Ellis, Maggie saw in Milford less of the divine and more of the human characteristics. Maggie, from all accounts, was a fine woman. She probably deserved a made-in-heaven relationship such as the one Ellis had with Milford. In marrying Roberts (in 1890) she seemed to have found it. Perhaps, too, the deaths of sons Morgan Farnsworth in 1881 at seven months, Gross Agnew in 1883 just under one year, Wallace Bruce in 1888 at four years, gradually became symbolic to Maggie of the 4 death of a marriage. Truman G. Madsen, in his fine Roberts biography, called her years in Milford's family a "difficult but not 5 hopeless" season which had in many ways become traumatic. In January of 1890, Maggie was granted a "temple cancellation" by Wilford Woodruff of her marriage to Milford. Indications are that in leaving Milford she was dramatizing no quarrel with the principle of plural marriage, for her new husband had two other wives. Where Milford was 13 years older than Maggie, Brigham Henry Roberts (B. H. Roberts-church leader, historian, author, lecturer, scholar) was 7 years younger. Although it is not known how they became acquainted, both were popular lecturers and responded to many |
