Lymon's marriage to Waters was not legal in the beginning, because she was still married to her first husband.

Zola Taylor, Elizabeth Waters, and Emira Eagle each approached Morris Levy, the music impressario who retained possession of Lymon's copyrights and his royalties, claiming to be Lymon's rightful widow ; Lymon had neglected to divorce both Taylor and Waters.

The first decision was made in Waters ' favor ; Eagle appealed, and in 1989, the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court reversed the original decision and awarded Lymon's estate to Eagle.

" That was followed by a hit cover of Frankie Lymon's " Why Do Fools Fall in Love.

Lymon's father, Howard Lymon, also sang in a gospel group known as the Harlemaires ; Frankie Lymon and his brothers Lewis and Howie sang with the Harlemaire Juniors ( a fourth Lymon brother, Timmy, was a singer, though not with the Harlemaire Juniors ).

Dennis Jackson of Columbus, Georgia, was one of the main influences in Lymon's life.

Lymon was never paid his songwriting royalties during his lifetime ; one result of Emira Eagle's legal victory was that Lymon's estate would finally begin receiving monetary compensation from his hit song's success.

In the 1980s, the Teenagers had resorted to using a female singer to imitate Lymon's prepubescent voice ; and Pearl McKinnon joined the band.

After R & B singer Diana Ross returned " Why Do Fools Fall in Love " to the Top Ten in 1981, a major controversy concerning Lymon's estate ensued.

Taylor claimed to have married Lymon in Mexico in 1965, although their relationship ended several months later purportedly because of Lymon's drug habits.

Frankie Laine referred to it as " rock and roll " but Lymon's extreme youth made the style appeal to a young and enthusiastic audience.

His personal donation of $ 500 helped start Lymon's career.

Lymon's slowly declining sales fell sharply after his voice changed and he lost his signature soprano voice.

Roulette Records expressed interest in releasing Lymon's records in conjunction with Big Apple and scheduled a recording session for February 28.

Lymon's troubles extended to others after his death.

The complex issue resulted in lawsuits and counter-lawsuits, and in 1986, the first of several court cases concerning the ownership of Lymon's estate began.

Lymon's high-voiced sound is said to be a direct predecessor of the girl group sound, and the list of performers who name him as an influence include Michael Jackson, Ronnie Spector, Diana Ross, The Chantels, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Len Barry, and The Beach Boys, among others.

Lymon's music and story were re-introduced to modern audiences with Why Do Fools Fall in Love, a 1998 biographical film directed by Gregory Nava, also the director of the Selena biopic.

Why Do Fools Fall in Love tells a comedic, fictionalized version of Lymon's story from the points of view of his three wives as they battle in court for the rights to his estate.

The song Harlem Roulette by The Mountain Goats off their 2012 album Transcendental Youth contains reference to Frankie Lymon and has been stated by frontman John Darnielle to be about the last night of Lymon's life.

In 1986, three women claiming to be Lymon's widow filed a law suit in New York's Superior Court claiming the rights to the song.

The Fort Mims massacre occurred on 30 August 1813 during the Creek War, when a force of Creek people, belonging to the " Red Sticks " faction under the command of Peter McQueen and William Weatherford (" Red Eagle "), his cousin by marriage, killed hundreds of Lower Creek, white settlers, and militia at Fort Mims.

His second marriage was to Marion Byrnes in 1927, also a staff member of the Daily Eagle, with whom he also had a daughter, Nora Johnson.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

One might digress at this point and speculate that if it is `` wise '' to create special sections for special status, then why not a special section for women pregnant before marriage, and one for 44-year-old men with teenage children, and so on.

Both sexes reported that the discussions on sex adjustment within marriage were extremely enlightening.

`` It reflects what is going on in other areas of the marriage and in society itself.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

Her marriage to Claudius was not based on love, but on power.

Diplomacy further strengthened the reconciliation by the marriage of Alexander to Henry's sister Joan of England on 18 June or 25 June 1221.

The marriage took place on 15 May 1239, and produced one son, the future Alexander III, born in 1241.

The need for a male heir led him to contract a second marriage to Yolande de Dreux on 1 November 1285.

Alfonso had been betrothed to Maria of Castile ( 1401 – 1458 ; sister of John II of Castile ) in Valladolid in 1408 ; the marriage was celebrated in Valencia on 12 June 1415.

Patriarch Fulcher objected to the marriage on grounds of consanguinity, as the two shared a great-great-grandfather, Guy I of Montlhéry, and it seems that they waited until Fulcher's death to marry.

Baldwin III died on 10 February 1163 and the kingdom passed to Amalric, although there was some opposition among the nobility to Agnes ; they were willing to accept the marriage in 1157 when Baldwin III was still capable of siring an heir, but now the Haute Cour refused to endorse Amalric as king unless his marriage to Agnes was annulled.

The Duchess converted to Roman Catholicism on 14 January 1994, but her husband did not lose his place in the succession, as the Duchess had been an Anglican at the time of their marriage.

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

His last work on a large scale appears to have been the unfinished serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano in 1723.

The marriage took place on 30 April or 16 October 1325 and was a purely political maneuver to strengthen the first Polish – Lithuanian coalition against the Teutonic Knights.

In 1966, Nin had her marriage with Pole annulled, due to the legal issues arising from both Guiler and Pole having to claim her as a dependent on their federal tax returns.

He says that from now on their marriage will be only a matter of appearances.

She now realizes that Torvald is not at all the kind of person she had believed him to be, and that their marriage has been based on mutual fantasies and misunderstanding.

Caroline died after only one year of marriage, on 28 December 1782 having succumbed to smallpox.

Holly proposed marriage to her on their very first date.